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A marriage of convenience (plural marriages of convenience) is a marriage contracted for reasons other than the reasons of relationship, family, or love. Instead, such a marriage is orchestrated for personal gain or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as immigration. The phrase is a calque of French: mariage de convenance - a marriage of convention, or marriage of suitability. Marriages of convenience are often contracted to exploit legal loopholes of various sorts. A couple may wed for reasons of citizenship or right of abode, for example, as many countries around the world will grant such rights to any wedded resident. Another common reason for marriages of convenience is to hide one partner's homosexuality in cases where being openly gay is punishable or potentially detrimental. A sham marriage may thus create the appearance of heterosexuality. Such marriages may have one heterosexual and one gay partner, or two gay partners. In the case where a gay man marries a woman, the woman is said to be his "beard". The phrase "marriage of convenience" has also been generalized to mean any partnership between groups or individuals for their mutual (and sometimes illegitimate) benefit, or between groups or individuals otherwise unsuited to working together. An example would be a "National Unity Government", as existed in Israel during much of the 1970s or in Second World War Great Britain. More specifically, cohabitation refers to a political situation which can occur in countries with a semi-presidential system (especially France), where the president and the prime minister belong to opposed political camps. Such partnerships are often referred to jokingly as "marriages of inconvenience", particularly where real co-operation between the parties is absent. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What's your reason for having a marriage of convenience means? Q. I always thought it's when a couple stay married because it's too expensive to live apart. Then I wondered if any of you consider your marriage to be for convenience only. If so, what are the reasons you are staying together? Sorry, goofed in question, strike the word "means". Asked by Deana M - Wed Oct 1 00:05:37 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. kids, money, stuck in a house in a declining market, afraid to hurt the other person with the truth, shall i continue... Answered by Tracy L - Wed Oct 1 00:14:01 2008 Marriage of convenience - for citizenship...what happened to...? Q. A year or two ago, there used to a website called Migrate Mate (at www.migratemate.com). The site was for people to get married for the purpose of gaining citizenship of another country - often in exchange for money. The site was like the Myspace of the marriage of conveneince sites. I'm not sure exaclty when, but the site was removed at some point. Does anyone know what happened to this site? Were there legal issues involved? Are there any similar sites these days? Asked by flawless51 - Mon Dec 4 22:22:01 2006 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. I'm single, I'll do it for cash, especially if she's hot. Answered by Non-Compassionate Liberal - Mon Dec 4 22:24:24 2006 A marriage of convenience
Q. I'm a Muslim and one of my friends is a lesbian but she comes from a very conservative muslim family. Her parents disowned her when she was 16 but they recently contacted her again and because she loves them so much she has agreed to get married to some guy in India. I don't really know what to advise her but I am shocked that she's going through with it to make her family happy. Are there a lot of such marriages within the Gay and Lesbian community? I understand that Muslims are a lot more conservative but can sometimes non muslim people get pushed into marriage from their family as well? Asked by answer my question - Sat Aug 9 06:26:05 2008 - - 9 Answers - 0 Comments A. Your friend is in for some serious grief and a lifetime of unhappiness and despair. If she does get found out, there could very well take place, yet, another ridiculous... 'honour killing.' I hope she invokes the 'geographic cure' upon, both, her family, and, the 'rent-a-groom' from India. You should help her. Answered by Blazing Pen Avenger. - Sat Aug 9 16:09:03 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Marriage of convenience"
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