# Let's Abolish the Institution of Marriage.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 19, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-abolish-the-institution-of-marriage/650788 "2013-02-19T11:39:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-abolish-the-institution-of-marriage/650788/81 "2013-02-20T22:14:36Z")

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> [@pchaos](#):
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> Sorry, for the bad advice. It’s hard to stay current with the law. My feeling has always been, attorneys shouldn’t have to go to other attorneys for advice. Once law becomes that complicated the society is going downhill.

> [@Lemur866](#):
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> Son, just admit that you aren’t an attorney. A real attorney who specialized in other fields than family law would have been careful not to offer an opinion on family law that can be easily disproved by a few seconds of googling. As for “it’s hard to stay current”, a few seconds of googling reveals that California abolished common law marriage in 1895. That’s, lets see, math is hard, 118 years ago.

If you want to discuss **pchaos** ’ credentials, there is a very, very long Pit thread available. GD isn’t the place for it. And yes, **pchaos** , it’s not hard to stay current with a law that hasn’t changed in 118 years. Either don’t give legal advice or make sure you know what you are talking about - preferably the first one.

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