text🌻seeking legal advice

[multidisciplinary]

Type: Text (backdated to before Farplane event)
Sender ID: Anonymous
To: Public
Subject: Seeking legal advice
Warnings: None

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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.

Comments

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[thearchangel]

I doubt it.

Even if it were, it'd be easy to get it annulled. Just cite "under the influence". If it works for drunks, it works for uh.



Can't believe I'm saying this: Ghosts.

text; Anonymous

[multidisciplinary]

[ Zelda has just a small panic attack when she sees a message from Garrus before she remembers that she's posting this anonymously. (Can't let the future second in command know that the captain might've gotten married Vegas-style....) ]

"Under the influence?" As in, intoxicated?

[thearchangel]

Same concept, right?

Not alcohol, but ghost influence. It makes sense from where I stand.

[multidisciplinary]

Why should intoxication make one immune to a binding legal contract?

[thearchangel]

Because, if you're blasted out of your mind on hanar mindfish then, honestly, you can't make a decision on where your pants go, much less get into a legal contract.

Granted, it doesn't hold much weight for things like jumping off a hospital roof. You can still be held accountable for that. [LOOKING AT YOU, URDNOT GRUNT.] But, no one can write or sign a contract while you're not in your right mind.

[multidisciplinary]

[ If you're jumping off a hospital roof, you should probably be more worried about the law of gravity than any laws you might be breaking. ]

I was in my right mind. It's more a matter that there was someone else in there with me at the same time.

[thearchangel]

Then... maybe it's more like a proxy thing.

Doing it on behalf of someone else?

[multidisciplinary]

Yes, that's it! We were acting as proxies.

[thearchangel]

Then I think you're fine. No legally binding anything.