The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34518   Message #466541
Posted By: toadfrog
19-May-01 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: Polygamy
Subject: RE: Polygamy
Gee. I guess it would be reasonable to let everyone have as many wives, husbands etc. as they might want, so long as everyone is a consenting adult and marriage has no legal or social consequences. But as here we have a guy marrying 13-and 14-year old girls, and having at least one of them draw welfare to support him, I don't see it that way. Absent the "marriages," he could be doing hard time for molesting minor girls.

And query, when he dies, if he does, who gets the community property? And which of those wives gets to go out on the street and beg?

If I buy a piece of land from him in a community property state, and one of his 5 wives fails to sign off on the deed, can he take it back whenever he wants?

Is his employer, if any, obliged to provide health care for all 5 wives? If not, who is going to tend to them if they are sick? The guy who already has one wife drawing welfare? No. His branch of the Church? Not bloody likely.