Talk:Marital status

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Living together?[edit]

How about adding "Living together"?

-- Sybrenstuvel 13:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What does marital status 'taken' mean?

It means that they're with someone but not necessarily married.

Sorry, but "taken" "cohabiting" "living together" are all to do with lifestyle, and are not your legitimate marital status. Marital status is to do with whether you have ever been legally married. When you live together, your marital status is unaffected by your living arrangement. So therefore, you may only be legally married, single (can only mean never married), divorced or widowed. Also in the UK we have civil partnerships for gay people, so "partnered" could be recognised, but only for homosexual people who have done the ceremony and have a civil partnership certificate.

Your living arrangements and your marital status are independent of one another. Your marital status also does not change because your feelings for someone change. Your marital status can only change when the births/deaths/marriages department of your relevant government or appropriate authority in your country is informed of the change in writing and the relevant certificate issued. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.41.165.8 (talk) 14:16, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In many countries registered partnership is also a legal form of marital status and has among other things tax implications for the couple. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.112.252.130 (talk) 12:51, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deceased[edit]

Surely that comes under widower/widow ? Marital status: deceased It sounds like your marriage died :) --Moozaad (talk) 19:48, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I don't know what it would mean. I took it out. --Alynna (talk) 12:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Language[edit]

"a couple who lives together and is bounded by a contract before the state or the church with legal age" Is that lawyer's talk or just bad English? --80.121.49.17 (talk) 16:13, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]