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I agree entirely that divorce should become an administrative process. All the present system does is perpetuate the need for a lawyer to advise how to manipulate the current process to ensure that the divorce happens.

However I am wholly against ‘protection’ for unmarried people. Marriage is a contract and should be a choice. Those who have chosen not to enter this contract should not be treated as though they have. What I believe should be put in place is a regular government advertising campaign to do away with the myth of the ‘common law spouse’ and/or the ‘two year rule’ that many people believe exist and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to understand that they will never have the rights of married people if they are not married. On this question education and not legislation is what I believe to be necessary and right.

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