Could a Family Limited Partnership accomplish much of the same goals?
Default treatment from the state of course would help, and to your point of people looking to government for consent or acceptance.
Default treatment from the state of course would help, and to your point of people looking to government for consent or acceptance.
Since a marriage is effectively a general partnership, and a Limited Partnership is a legal structure with overlapping but not identical effects to a general partnership that involves more involved goverment rules, sure, the State could create a “Family Limited Partnership” having the a similar relation to marriage as a regular limited partnership has to a general partnership, but simply legalizing the existing family system with more than two partners would be the less intrusive, simpler approach (and a lot of the problem areas that people raise with that already have fairly obvious solutions from generalizing the multipartner handling in the law of general partnerships back to marriages.)