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I'm...pretty much sure that whatever worries that exist are less...um, less extreme in my side of the globe (if and unless unexpected happenings occur, which won't happen with me anyways :v)
...Courts? o_o
At least in the states, marriage constitutes a pretty extreme legal entanglement between the individuals in question, with all sorts of boilerplate and automatic legal consequences involving
all sorts of things -- from wills, to taxes, to insurance, to property ownership, and more. And all that something that a great number of people getting married pay
absolutely no attention to and subsequently get bit in the hindquarters to varying, but often extreme, degrees.
I've seen a fair number of relationships and people honestly kinda' ruined because they walked through a
major legal decision without really knowing what they were doing. S'one of the reasons that, at least for state-side folks, I would absolute and
emphatically recommend never even
considering marriage without a serious and in-depth conversation with a lawyer, if ever. Public ceremony or whatnot is fine (public declaration of commitment, whatever), long term relationship is grand and joyful and etc. -- the legal side of things is something
entirely different and is a commitment that is pretty tremendously huge and often both unnecessary and outright
detrimental for the relationship in question. Avoid like the legal plague it is.