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An Underwater Wedding… and its Legal Implications

Monday, December 4th, 2006

          A friend, who is presently studying law, asked for my opinion on an interesting question on family law assigned by his law professor. Here’s my take:

          It must really be difficult to fathom the profundity of a wedding celebration under the sea… with scores of fish and other sea creatures witnessing the ceremony.

          Since human vocal cords cannot duplicate the skills of the whales in producing such awe-inspiring reverberations underwater, it must be very interesting to witness a wedding conducted in pantomime.

          While the seaworld is governed by the most fundamental precepts inherent in the laws of nature, the wedding couple will have to swim and tread back to their own world governed by the most complicated and tortuous laws of men.  While the fish and their kin might have unreservedly accepted the marriage vows (nobody so far has been reported to have been bitten by shark or by some other sea(tizens) in opposition to such freakish ritual), we the creatures of convoluted ideologies cannot however avoid inquiring the legal acceptability of said marriage ceremony. (more…)

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