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.

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

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.

Page 2

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:

Page 3

5. Any former family name used by either party:


(or: none)

II. STATISTICAL FACTS

6. Date of marriage:

7. Date of filing:

Page 4

8. Duration of marriage, in days:

9. Case number:

Page 5

III. CHILDREN OF
THE MARRIAGE

10. Number of children of this marriage:

Page 6

11. Full names of each child:


(or: none)

Page 7

12. Does either party hold an active invite code:

Page 8

IV. THE MARITAL
ESTATE

13. Total hearts of the marriage:

14. Hearts awarded to petitioner:

15. Hearts awarded to respondent:

Page 9

16. Separate property, petitioner's purchased heart upgrades:

17. Separate property, respondent's purchased heart upgrades:

Page 10

V. RESTORATION
OF NAME

18. Does petitioner request restoration of their former name:

19. Does respondent request restoration of their former name:

Page 11

VI. GROUNDS

20. Grounds for dissolution:

Page 12

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: