guide:marriage [elementia]

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====== Marriage ======

How to marry, and how to stop being married. Both are bought in the shop.

===== Getting married =====

Buy a Marriage Certificate each. Right-click each other while you are both holding one.

===== Names =====

''/marry name'' lets you take their family name, hyphenate the two, or keep your own.

A hyphenated name uses the first part of each.

===== Shared hearts =====

Married players share one heart total, held as the average.

  * At the wedding you are both set to the average of the two. Marrying someone on low hearts costs you.
  * After that, anything that moves one of you moves both.
  * A death costs 3 hearts, so you lose 1.5 each. The same as one person dying alone.
  * A child together gives you 1.5 hearts each. A child with anyone else gives 0.5 each.
  * Buying a heart in the shop gives you 0.5 each.

The total is the same as if you were not married. Only who holds it changes.

===== The bond =====

Standing within 16 blocks of your spouse gives you both Regeneration.

===== If your spouse is soulless =====

Shared hearts are off. Nothing you do moves them and nothing they do moves you.

Your deaths cost the full 3 hearts, because there is nobody to share them with.

A soulless player cannot have children. See [[souls|Souls]].

===== Divorce =====

==== How it works ====

Both of you buy Divorce Papers. They are a book and quill with the petition printed in.
Each of you fills in your own copy and files it with ''/divorce'' while holding it.

The marriage ends when both petitions are in and they agree. There is no accept button. Two
documents saying the same thing is the agreement.

==== Rules ====

  * Both of you must file within a couple of minutes of each other.
  * Papers are consumed whether the filing is accepted or rejected.
  * A rejected filing will tell you every line that was wrong.
  * Both petitions must award the same hearts to the same person, and must agree on line 18 and 19.
  * Lines 14 and 15 must add up to line 13.
  * Each of you is the PETITIONER on your own copy.
  * The date of marriage can be your best guess, within ±7 days.

==== Formatting ====

  * Capitals do not matter.
  * Yes or no: ''yes'', ''y'', ''true'', ''no'', ''n'', ''false''.
  * Dates must be spelled out, with no year: ''October 6'', ''oct 6th'', ''6 October''.
  * Lists are separated by commas, in any order. Write ''none'' for an empty one.

==== The form ====

**Page 1**
<code>
PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

In the matter of the
marriage registered to
the parties named below.

Fill every line.
Answer after the colon.

Both parties must file.
</code>

**Page 2**
<code>
I. THE PARTIES

1. Petitioner, full name:

2. Petitioner's family name at filing:

3. Respondent, full name:

4. Respondent's family name at filing:
</code>

**Page 3**
<code>
5. Any former family name used by either party:


(or: none)

II. STATISTICAL FACTS

6. Date of marriage:

7. Date of filing:
</code>

**Page 4**
<code>
8. Duration of marriage, in days:

9. Case number:
</code>

**Page 5**
<code>
III. CHILDREN OF
THE MARRIAGE

10. Number of children of this marriage:
</code>

**Page 6**
<code>
11. Full names of each child:


(or: none)
</code>

**Page 7**
<code>
12. Does either party hold an active invite code:
</code>

**Page 8**
<code>
IV. THE MARITAL
ESTATE

13. Total hearts of the marriage:

14. Hearts awarded to petitioner:

15. Hearts awarded to respondent:
</code>

**Page 9**
<code>
16. Separate property, petitioner's purchased heart upgrades:

17. Separate property, respondent's purchased heart upgrades:
</code>

**Page 10**
<code>
V. RESTORATION
OF NAME

18. Does petitioner request restoration of their former name:

19. Does respondent request restoration of their former name:
</code>

**Page 11**
<code>
VI. GROUNDS

20. Grounds for dissolution:
</code>

**Page 12**
<code>
21. Attorney of record, or self-represented:



VII. VERIFICATION

Transcribe exactly:
"I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct."

22. Declaration:
</code>