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Will people get slapped with anti cohabitation and anti prostitution laws?
Will people get slapped with anti cohabitation and anti prostitution laws?
Florida is one of the states where a 14 year old could get married if they've been married before. I'm guessing Utah is another.
It is illegal in the state of Florida for an unmarried couple to shack up together. That law is not usually enforced. It's from the 1800's and meant to fight polygamy...or polyamory because polygamy is already illegal. Last I heard they were trying to repeal it.
It is illegal in the state of Florida for an unmarried couple to shack up together.
oh really? I never knew this. So half of Florida could be thrown in jail at any time lol.
"What are the laws regarding polygamy in the U.S.?"
I am talking about practical polygamy. Polygamy is of course illegal but that can be avoided by simply not registering your marriage.Hi pluver,
Re (from OP):
To that question, the answer is pretty simple; polygamy is illegal in the United States. That is, you are not allowed to marry more than one person. Now what the penalties are probably varies from state to state.
Re: the laws regarding *polyamory* ... are a more complicated matter, but my impression is that the Law (in the U.S. -- and many other countries) frowns on polyamory in theory, while generally ignoring polyamory in practice. You would have to do something to piss off the authorities before they'd pursue you for any polyamory-related infraction.
Sometimes polyamory can be conflated with polygamy. Such as a polyamorous relationship that *looks* like a marriage; such as, a wedding ceremony minus the legal document, or, cohabitation. Although so many unmarried people live together these days, it's another situation where something might be considered illegal but the authorities would be reluctant to interfere with it.
If someone started marrying child brides, they would soon be neck deep in hot water. And that concludes the entire corpus of what I know about poly laws.
Sincerely,
Kevin T.
The muslims may have access to Sharia court, however, it may not be officials. US allows any contracts and contracts can stipulate when we have dispute we go to this court or that private court. So Sharia court is just a sample of private court that is very legal in US. Of course this causes quite a stir.Hmmm, do Muslims in the United States have access to shari'a court? I am skeptical about that, this is the first time I've heard of it. I don't think you can be penalized in the United States for being atheist (in case that's relevant).
I don't know what the exact laws are, but I'm assuming one could be a sugar daddy in the United States and get away with it. Unless it's a state with rules regarding adultery and/or cohabitation.
Prostitution is illegal here -- with the exception of Nevada, and I don't know whether there are any other exceptions. I think that living together ... or financially supporting someone ... oddly would not be considered a kind of prostitution.
"The Muslims may have access to sharia court, however, it may not be official. The United States allow any contracts, and contracts can stipulate, when we have dispute, we go to this court or that private court. So sharia court is just a sample of private court that is very legal in the United States. Of course this causes quite a stir.
I am not a Muslim but I think their marriage laws are much more flexible than Christians."
My guess is muslims or ANYONE can invoke any private courts when they make contracts.Re (from pluver):
You seem to be saying that a Muslim in the United States can invoke sharia law, and in that way, bypass the standard anti-polygamy laws, and thus legally marry at least two or three women. The only catch, I guess, would be, that he would have to make enough money to support all of his wives.
Am I wrong in saying this?
In my country, prostitution is legal and hence men can make contract explicit.Sharia court would be legal in the US, but for the most part religious law does not supercede political law (there are exceptions). So, even if polygamy is legal in a certain religion, it has to be done a specific way to make it legal with the government (like only one legal marriage, the rest being symbolic/spiritual, only claiming the legal spouse on legal documents, etc. Some states even make it illegal to call more than one person spouse but not all).
Prostitution is illegal pretty much everywhere here (outside of a handful of legal brothels). So including any sex acts in a contract is going to make the contract unenforceable. Exchanging goods or money for any sex act would be illegal. Sugar relationships skirt this line by having the contractual expectations be non sexual tasks with the sexual obligations being a verbal add on that wouldn't appear in court if a contract dispute or an investigation into the activity happened.
Having more than one sugar baby, having kids with more than one woman, etc isn't going to qualify as polygamy unless y'all are presenting yourselves as married.