What About Polygamy In Montana?

[MatSm]

It appears that if polygamy is to be permitted in Montana, it will take a legal battle similar to the path of Obergefell v. Hodges, the case through which the U.S. Supreme Court created “same-sex marriage.”
A court clerk flatly rejected a request for state endorsement of a polygamous arrangement sought by a man, his wife and his live-in girlfriend, whom he reportedly wanted to make wife No. 2.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/montana-clerk-says-no-to-polygamy/

Polygamy is really about a guy being tired of the first wife and wanting a second but not wanting to divorce, rinse and repeat. It is really about the guy not being able to be faithful. Each divorce would be a nightmare. Think about it. Assets are divided in a divorce. So if wife #1 was married to the schmuck for 20 years and wife # 2 for 12 years and wife #3 for 8 years when wife # 2 wants a divorce, how will the marital assets be divided?

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[Brainonska511]

Repost of a repost.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2437972
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2438038

 

[Moonbeam]

I like the part where you ask me to think about it and go on to explain you're incoherent babble as if you actually imagined there was some thinking there.

 

[dawp]

a nut linking to wnd, who'da thought

and who is this RBM?

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

It appears that if polygamy is to be permitted in Montana, it will take a legal battle similar to the path of Obergefell v. Hodges, the case through which the U.S. Supreme Court created “same-sex marriage.”
A court clerk flatly rejected a request for state endorsement of a polygamous arrangement sought by a man, his wife and his live-in girlfriend, whom he reportedly wanted to make wife No. 2.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/montana-clerk-says-no-to-polygamy/

Polygamy is really about a guy being tired of the first wife and wanting a second but not wanting to divorce, rinse and repeat. It is really about the guy not being able to be faithful. Each divorce would be a nightmare. Think about it. Assets are divided in a divorce. So if wife #1 was married to the schmuck for 20 years and wife # 2 for 12 years and wife #3 for 8 years when wife # 2 wants a divorce, how will the marital assets be divided?

US isn't ready for polygamy, partially based on simply the tax ramifications.

How do you file a joint tax return for 3 people? The answer is you can't. So unless some law is enacted with it that says you must each file separate returns, it isn't going to be legal anytime soon.