![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I am calling this 'study'
May. 26th, 2013 09:47 amDid you know that it is illegal in Australia to marry your own spouse twice. There are some exceptions, but the second marriage is invalid, outside those few exceptions.
Also, transsexuals who have had total gender reassignment surgery can legally marry members of the ... I was going to say 'opposite sex', but I better clarify that, shouldn't I? Members of the gender opposite to that which they have chosen* to be. At least, it would seem that Re: Kevin is still good law, and that the terms 'man' and 'woman' are given their normal every day meaning. So if someone has had gender reassignment surgery, the community will basically consider them the gender they now are, not that which they were born.
And - under some circumstances Australian law will recognise polygamous marriages. Only for the purposes of, well basically divorcing someone or property settlement or succession. And only those that have occurred in a country where polygamy is legal. But still.
The only people you cannot marry are your siblings, ancestors or descendants. Blood relative or adopted, is immaterial. So you can't marry your grandpa, or your brother. Mind you - eewwwwww. But you can marry your cousin or aunt. huh.
*we can quibble about 'chosen' but I don't mean it in the "lifestyle choice" way. I mean it in that they have chosen to go through everything involved with surgically changing genders.
Also, transsexuals who have had total gender reassignment surgery can legally marry members of the ... I was going to say 'opposite sex', but I better clarify that, shouldn't I? Members of the gender opposite to that which they have chosen* to be. At least, it would seem that Re: Kevin is still good law, and that the terms 'man' and 'woman' are given their normal every day meaning. So if someone has had gender reassignment surgery, the community will basically consider them the gender they now are, not that which they were born.
And - under some circumstances Australian law will recognise polygamous marriages. Only for the purposes of, well basically divorcing someone or property settlement or succession. And only those that have occurred in a country where polygamy is legal. But still.
The only people you cannot marry are your siblings, ancestors or descendants. Blood relative or adopted, is immaterial. So you can't marry your grandpa, or your brother. Mind you - eewwwwww. But you can marry your cousin or aunt. huh.
*we can quibble about 'chosen' but I don't mean it in the "lifestyle choice" way. I mean it in that they have chosen to go through everything involved with surgically changing genders.
