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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 January 2013 12:42:23AM 2 points [-]

There are other issues-- marriage carries a bunch of legal implications which are frequently to the advantage of the married couple. Offhand, there's hospital visitation, default inheritance, and immigration rights.

Comment author: Nornagest 15 January 2013 12:58:06AM *  1 point [-]

Right. Douglas_Knight seemed already to be taking direct benefits like these into account, so I was looking for indirect ones: situations where words like "spouse" never appear in a statement of policy, but social benefits from being married accrue anyway for less obvious reasons.