But I read legal codes for fun. It's a gamer thing, I think.
Yeah, ditto, though I tend to focus on things that are important to me, so my areas of knowledge are kind of scattered. IP law? Covered. Criminal appellate procedure? Rusty, but it's there. (In high school I played a lawyer in a state-government version of Model UN. I put more effort into that brief than I did anything else in high school, with the possible exception of directing the Scottish Play.) Constitutional law, especially the 2nd Amendment? Depends on the state, but I've got the federal rules down. Marriage law? Well, not until it became an issue. :-/
I think a lot of the blogging about this is swapping around phrasing and semantics as we try to find ways to describe the whys and hows of something that seems glaringly obvious to us.
Indeed. I hope we can figure out a better PR approach than the original No on 8 team did.
The paternity suit thing is whacked. Sucks to be a woman in an abusive marriage who takes a lover on the side, gets pregnant by her lover, decides to have the child and divorces her husband.
Hm. I actually have a friend who has several kids; she's poly, and while she was married to her first husband, had another partner (with her husband's full knowledge and consent); that partner is the biological father of one of her children. She and her first husband divorced, and she's now married to the other fella. I wonder how the legal-parenthood situation got sorted out there.
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Date: 2008-11-15 10:58 pm (UTC)Yeah, ditto, though I tend to focus on things that are important to me, so my areas of knowledge are kind of scattered. IP law? Covered. Criminal appellate procedure? Rusty, but it's there. (In high school I played a lawyer in a state-government version of Model UN. I put more effort into that brief than I did anything else in high school, with the possible exception of directing the Scottish Play.) Constitutional law, especially the 2nd Amendment? Depends on the state, but I've got the federal rules down. Marriage law? Well, not until it became an issue. :-/
I think a lot of the blogging about this is swapping around phrasing and semantics as we try to find ways to describe the whys and hows of something that seems glaringly obvious to us.
Indeed. I hope we can figure out a better PR approach than the original No on 8 team did.
The paternity suit thing is whacked. Sucks to be a woman in an abusive marriage who takes a lover on the side, gets pregnant by her lover, decides to have the child and divorces her husband.
Hm. I actually have a friend who has several kids; she's poly, and while she was married to her first husband, had another partner (with her husband's full knowledge and consent); that partner is the biological father of one of her children. She and her first husband divorced, and she's now married to the other fella. I wonder how the legal-parenthood situation got sorted out there.