Going Dutch
Oct. 5th, 2005 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Apparently, we just had the first three-person civil union in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, pretty much all google can produce is foreign language pages (dutch) and extreme-right-wing rants than they told us so (double dutch), all apparently from a single source somewhere.
If it works, I presume they'd have to:
You designate next-of-kin order, or people fight it out like multiple parents/siblings.
You have a 'primary' who gets benefits you only get one of.
Two people have to be primary for children.
Spousal employment perks, etc, will be decided in nasty case law battles
Wills would be useful.
Etc.
But I couldn't actually find any information, just "Polygamy, woo!" or "Polygamy, yuk[1]!". Does anyone know more?
PS. Thanks to Naath for bringing this to our attention. And apologies for saying it'd never happen.
[1] Lower mammals *were* mentioned as the new 'worst possible bottom of the slope' :)
Apparently, we just had the first three-person civil union in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, pretty much all google can produce is foreign language pages (dutch) and extreme-right-wing rants than they told us so (double dutch), all apparently from a single source somewhere.
If it works, I presume they'd have to:
You designate next-of-kin order, or people fight it out like multiple parents/siblings.
You have a 'primary' who gets benefits you only get one of.
Two people have to be primary for children.
Spousal employment perks, etc, will be decided in nasty case law battles
Wills would be useful.
Etc.
But I couldn't actually find any information, just "Polygamy, woo!" or "Polygamy, yuk[1]!". Does anyone know more?
PS. Thanks to Naath for bringing this to our attention. And apologies for saying it'd never happen.
[1] Lower mammals *were* mentioned as the new 'worst possible bottom of the slope' :)
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Date: 2005-10-05 12:50 pm (UTC)OK, looking at this (http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:t_E4ny0G720J:www.justitie.nl/english/Images/marriage_registered_tcm75-28560.pdf) it seems they have marriage, registered partnerships, which are mostly like marriage, and cohabitation agreements, which is a normal contract drawn up with a notary in a fairly straightforward fasion between any people living together to establish what obligations they have to each other, but is almost entirely only between each other.
Cohabitation Agreements sound like an incredably sensible idea. In fact, marriage + a cohabitation agreement *is* *nearly* a primary marriage and a secondary one, but a very secondary one. But isn't government recognition. And that's what they did here.