>but also to give people the ability to declare anyone they chose, who was willing to reciprocate, 'family' (i.e. I choose to create a legal relationship with this person; they should now legally be considered part of my 'family' for the purposes of medical decisions should I be incapacitated, rights to see me, division of my stuff should I fail to leave a will, etc.)
I so love this idea. It'd be a bit like Finder, actually - remember Ayo, from Dream Sequence? He makes a remark about having to 'marry like five people' if he wanted to have a bigger apartment. In the notes CSM explains that marrying is a bit like joining a company in Anvard - basically, like you say, accepting certain legal rights and duties in relation to another person, but apparently in Anvard the main focus, or at least *a* main focus is economical. But, anyway, it's not necessarily just between two people. You can apparently marry an entire bunch of people, if you like.
BTW: a comment about your original post: EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee DEXTER icon! *g*
Making family
I so love this idea. It'd be a bit like Finder, actually - remember Ayo, from Dream Sequence? He makes a remark about having to 'marry like five people' if he wanted to have a bigger apartment. In the notes CSM explains that marrying is a bit like joining a company in Anvard - basically, like you say, accepting certain legal rights and duties in relation to another person, but apparently in Anvard the main focus, or at least *a* main focus is economical. But, anyway, it's not necessarily just between two people. You can apparently marry an entire bunch of people, if you like.
BTW: a comment about your original post: EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee DEXTER icon! *g*