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Scenario

When long-term partnerships lack legal protection in medical crises

My wife and I have been together for fifteen years but we never legally married and now she is sick and I am realizing her sister could shut me out of every decision about her care or death.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between emotional commitment and legal recognition becomes a chasm when death and medical decisions strip away the luxury of informality.

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Rabia
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