Marriage. State-recognised bundle of legal, financial, and social rights for a pair.
It is an institution or public programme.
It exists to relieve Bind two lives legally and financially, Signal commitment publicly and Ensure the surviving partner keeps the assets. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Marriage and family law. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
It competes with Cohabitation agreement for the same friction.
No company in this map is recorded selling this yet — often because the provider is a family, a community or the state rather than a business.
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The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionMarriage
- FrictionBind two lives legally and financially
- Life phaseHousehold formation
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inUncertainty