text🌻seeking legal advice

[multidisciplinary]

Type: Text (backdated to before Farplane event)
Sender ID: Anonymous
To: Public
Subject: Seeking legal advice
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Hello.

I am in need of legal advice regarding a private matter:

Is a marriage contract legally binding if one or more parties involved were under the influence of spiritual possession while it was officiated?

Thank you for your assistance.

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[empyrean_mirror]

I'm not a lawyer but I've heard that ghost marriages are technically legally binding?

But if it's fairly recent you should be able to get an anullment.

text; Anonymous

[multidisciplinary]

Do you mean binding for the spirits themselves or binding for the living stand-ins? Please be as exact as possible.

text; un: paridisaea

[empyrean_mirror]

the laws are a little different on each leviathan, from what I read before my wedding

but I think it's both? it'd depend on what exactly happened.

still, even then, if you both agree to an annulment and it hasn't been that long, I don't think there'd be a problem dissolving it?

[multidisciplinary]

[ The laws differ between leviathans?? Oh that makes this so much more complicated. ]

In that case, do you know the laws of marriage and annulment for Naughtilust? Or where I can read up on them?

[empyrean_mirror]

let me see where Haitham squirreled the books away, I took notes, they're bound to be in one of the libraries SOMEWHERE

["One of"?]

[multidisciplinary]

[ "One of?" Kaveh what kind of life do you live? Also would you be interested in a roommate? ]

That would be most helpful, thank you. I would prefer to find a way that the spirits are legally recognized as wed but not myself and my companion.

[ Not that there's not a part of her mind that is going "tee hee /twirls hair" about the idea of being married to Darin... But the larger, royalty part of her mind is reminding her that she absolutely cannot be getting married to someone willy-nilly. ]

[empyrean_mirror]

[Can you really say you love your bibliophile husband if you don't build him multiple libraries? he'll rebuild the apartments over the book cafe soon claim your spot]

So you were proxies? Oh, then that shouldn't be a problem, then. Unless you are expected to carry on as their proxies for the entire marriage, you shouldn't be legally required to stand in. Probably.

Unless the laws on the Naughtilust are way weirder than I remember or you said you wanted to actually marry the other proxy, I guess.

[multidisciplinary]

[ Considering that it's the Naughtilust, the laws there could be a lot weirder than Kaveh remembers. ]

The spirits were fairly clear that my companion and I were only needed for the wedding ceremony.

But what exactly do you mean, "if I said I wanted to marry the other proxy?"

[ Zelda is now scrolling back through her (admittedly fuzzy) memories of that night trying to remember if she ever said anything that could be construed as her wanting to marry Darin. (She knows she expressed interest in wanting other things, but none of those were specifically marriage. ]

[empyrean_mirror]

Well, if you said your vows to him directly, by his name and not the ghosts you were standing in for, it might be a little...confusing, legally speaking.

[multidisciplinary]

The spirits' names were the only ones used during the ceremony. I allowed the spirit full control of my body, so every word spoken was her own, even though they were spoken in my voice.

So it sounds as though I am in the clear, legally speaking.

[empyrean_mirror]

Are you alright emotionally speaking, though?

[He's not even meaning to troll. This sounds like a Lot.]

[multidisciplinary]

What do you mean?

[ It has definitely been A Lot. ]

[empyrean_mirror]

Well, a ghost marriage that might have been legally binding...that sounds pretty stressful, even if you like your other proxy just fine. And if the ghosts' emotions were...present during all this, that's a lot to handle, too.

So, are you doing okay?