FRANCE: Dead and Not-Yet-Dead Unions!

I saw an alarmingly amusing story at Charisma News:

Marriage Equality Takes Deadly Twist: Woman to Marry Deceased Fiancé

President François Hollande has allowed a French woman to marry her dead fiancé, under a little-known law dating back 55 years.

Pascale Liéard, 48, was given permission for a posthumous marriage to groom Michael, who died two years ago from a heart attack.

Liéard wrote to the president four times before he granted her wedding request. She plans to wear a white top and a black skirt for the occasion.

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I am deeply concerned that this sort of thing will open the way to no-fault divorce of the dead.

Do the dead have rights to preserve their marriages or not?

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