10th July 2003, 5:01 AM
The idea of the legal marriage in addition to the religious marriage is to give authority to the people responsible. If the spouse is in the hospital, who should have to make the important decisions for the injured person: her mother or her spouse? The idea of a legal spouse says: it is the spouse that should make those decisions. Unfortunately, there are some people that are not responsible when the the state asks them to be, as is the case with golddiggers.