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

[astudyinviolet]

I consider the marriage rendered void even if the minister had good intentions. The ghosts were able to play at having a wedding they could not during life, and that is all that it was. In my world, part of the marriage vows contain "till death do us part." They are dead. They have parted. The marriage is over. If one of them had been alive, they would be free to marry again.

What purpose does a legal union for the living even serve after death?

[multidisciplinary]

[ It's a good thing the spirit of Elise has departed for the Farplane; if she was still in Zelda's body, she'd be spitting fire about what Sherlock wrote. ]

It was of significant importance to them. In life, the spirits came from two different social classes, a lowborn man and a noblewoman. She intended to use their marriage to formally renounce her noble status and legal claim to her birthright. They wished to be recorded in the annuls of time as equals.

[astudyinviolet]

[ Well, Elise should have thought things through better instead of forcibly possessing someone. ]

Yet all they have are their names within some register and none of the context. Few people will look up their names there and fewer still will know the importance. If they wanted their love to be recognized and remembered, they should have told their story and asked others to spread their tale.

So, in lieu of a legal document, let this post be a record with all the facts available.

[multidisciplinary]

[ There's not much reasoning with the bitter spirit of a jilted lover. It's safer just to go along with her. (Plus, Elise did give Zelda some good advice about seizing the moment before it's too late.)

But Sherlock makes a good point; without context, theirs are just two names amidst hundreds in a wedding registry. It tells little of their love and the challenges they overcame to be together. ]

Well, then perhaps I should be the one to tell their story. Properly, that is-- as historical record of the history of the Naughtilust.

[astudyinviolet]

Indeed. Such words will do more to prove their devotion to each other than a pair names written down among others and referenced rarely if at all. They may even inspire others to stay true towards themselves rather than what society tells them to be.

[multidisciplinary]

[ "Inspire others to stay true to themselves rather than what society tells them to be." That feels pretty on the mark, Sherlock...

Nevertheless, Zelda is genuinely thinking about this now. ]

You make a good point, and I do believe that they deserve to have their story told. Thank you for the suggestion. I shall get to work on this.

[astudyinviolet]

I shall await your results and their story.