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 This tradition isn't well known to outsiders, but is mentioned here as an item of interest.
+====== CSS Definition of Marriage / Legal Details ======
+The Confederated Star Systems is, of course, a confederation of star systems; there's hundreds of worlds representing thousands if not millions of cultures.  Each culture will have its own ideas about marriage, based in tradition, religion, or local cultural attitudes.
+As such, the CSS views the ability to get married as a basic right and something that should be honored across all its member worlds.  However, it does not impose any restrictions upon what a marriage can be, allowing individual worlds to make up their minds about the details.
+In the CSS, a marriage is like a corporation; it has members, each with a percentage 'share' of the marriage.  This percentage comes into play when determining inheritence.  For most marriages, all partners are equal; however, some cultures may have husbands or wives in some sort of tier system, and this enables each marriage party to define their own allocations.
+There are only a few fundamental rules about a marriage:
+  * A person may only participate in one marriage at a time -- however, they may leave or join marriages more or less freely.
+  * All involved must be adults
+  * All involved must be sentient, living beings of a mostly biological nature.
+Any number of people can be in a marriage; there is no limit.  A person can even be in a marriage with just themselves, legally speaking, but there is no particular benefit to doing such a thing.  There is no implied sexual connection from being married, and in some cultures it is common to use the CSS' marriage framework to support the creation of families joined together of unrelated persons.  These people want the benefits of being married but may not have seuxal relationships with each-other.
+Each world must respect any CSS marriage and treat all parties in the marriage as a married group.  That said, individual worlds may have local laws which prevent their local citizens from engaging in certain forms of marriage (such as prohibitions against polyamorous marriages).  Those worlds must accept polyamorous visitors, but should those visitors which to stay on a world with such restrictions as pemanent residents, they may face a variety of consequences.
+That said, the prohibition laws are rare and usually found in more "backwater" places.
+Finally, getting married (or divorced) in the CSS is fairly simple.  One must submit paperwork, and then have the marriage confirmed by a magistrate.  Almost all colonies, all established worlds, and many space stations have a magistrate or potentially many magistrates, making it very easy to get done.
+In the case of marriage, the magistrate can object or deny a marriage based on certain factors; for instance, if it is thought one of the partners is being exploited in some fashion.  In such cases, there is always a route for appeals which usually involves meeting with social workers and having whatever concerns are brought up addressed.  This, however, is incredibly rare; most marriages are quickly rubber stamped.
+In the case of divorce, the magistrate will determine the division of property and what will happen with the children as the case may be.  This can be very complex and, as with real life, will often involve lawyers unless the parties getting divorced come to the magistrate with a pre-agreed and amical plan.