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by masklinn 3891 days ago
> I've seen it counted that marriage confers over 1000 contracts or rights

Way over 1000 in fact, back in 2004, at the federal level alone, the GAO identified "1049 federal statutory provisions […] contingent on marital status or in which marital status is a factor"

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04353r.pdf