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

[lucky_e]

No, they do and that's why I'm asking. If you're not in full control of yourself, or able to properly think, then decisions like marriage and similar ones would be taking advantage of someone vulnerable and unable to make decisions for themselves.

If that's the case here then you can't really say that you've agreed to that marriage, or anything else that pertains to it.

[multidisciplinary]

[ Zelda is developing the mistaken impression that if you're drunk enough, you're immune to the legal ramifications of your actions. ]

I did have a lot to drink that night, but I feel like I was in full possession of my faculties again by the time of the wedding. My companion and I knowingly agreed to allow the spirits to borrow our bodies in order to be married.

[lucky_e]

[Thankfully that isn't true???? but everyone here are supposed to be pirates so who actually knows on that front.]

You let ghosts hijack your bodies so they could be married?

[What kind of wild Vegas night is this?]

Then wouldn't it just be the ghosts that are married? Not the both of you?

[multidisciplinary]

[ ajgklds hijacked?? ]

They were betrothed in life and died before they could wed. I wanted to help them fulfill their wish to be married so that they could pass on to the Farplane!

[ What happens on the Naughtilust stays on the Naughtilust... until it doesn't. ]

That is what I want to determine for certain. A marriage is supposed to bind body and soul, but in this instance, only the soul wished to be bound in marriage. I want to be certain that the marriage is null between myself and my companion, but remains valid for the spirits.

[lucky_e]

[HIJACKED! STOLEN! TAKEN FOR A JOYRIDE LIKE THE FERRARI FROM FERRIS BUELLER! taken, hijacked, destroyed, grand theft zelda!]

Then, if they've already moved on, I wouldn't worry about it.

[Enty has no clue how marriage works and doesn't think she'll ever be able to experience it, so her own knowledge is kind of... lacking. But...!]

Since it was meant to tie just the two of them together, not you, I really don't think it was you and whoever the other person was that's actually married, but them.

[multidisciplinary]

[ Zelda will continue to worry about it. Sure they've moved on and their legal union doesn't mean anything in the living world, but it's the principle of the matter!

But Enty's right; Zelda should try to stop worrying about it. ]

I suppose I can see your point. Many others have said the same, that my companion and I are not legally wed because we did not intend to be. It feels like it would be a flimsy excuse in the eyes of the law, but perhaps it isn't and I am worrying over nothing.