Close Kin Marriage & Gay Marriage

[Lusankya]

For what it's worth, IIRC two sisters tried to register a "civil partnership" (gay marriage) in the UK a couple of years back when it came in. They're both in their seventies, share a house and wanted to dodge various inheritance taxes.

I can't remember if they were allowed to or not though - I vaguely remember it ending up in the courts somehow.

That kind of thing would actually be permissable under South Australian law. We don't have gay marriage here, but recent laws which gave various rights to homosexual couples also gave the same rights to anyone cohabiting in a non-sexual relationshio, but sharing finances etc.