Law -- Marriages

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* General -- Family Information#Getting Married

beYou Marriages are processed by any active beYou Lawyer. Lawyers can be found by either visiting the adboards at main beYou sim and seeing who is online on the lawyer boards or by using the profession search feature on the website to see which lawyers have been active in the past few days at: https://www.beyouworld.com/searchProfessionals?professionName=Lawyer

**NOTE**: The web search will not tell you who is online at the time of your search; just who's been online recently.

## Getting Married

To get married using beYou, you must see a beYou Lawyer.

Before you apply, make sure the following conditions are met:

* Both parties must not already be married or the application will not be accepted.
* If either partner is already in a family and you wish to have the other join into that family your Lawyer can ensure that the first name used is the person who is in the family. You do not have to be in a family to get married.
* If you're starting a new family, the head of household (aka Spouse 1) must be the creator of the family name.
* The potential spouse can not be a part of a pre-existing family. If they are they need to leave that family in order to be married.

Once the form has been submitted by your lawyer, you will need to go to your family tab (on your beYou profile page) and confirm the application process. Marriage applications take approx. 5 days to be fully processed.

After the marriage application completes, both partners will receive a prim in SL to signify the marriage. This prim will look like a marriage certificate and can be set up to show your marriage details using a fulfillment code. This code is generated at the time your marriage completes and is available on the family tab of your profile by clicking the blue buttons at the bottom.

## Processing a Marriage Application

If you are an active beYou Lawyer, you will purchase forms from an educator on the markets. Once purchased, they will automatically be added to your assets based. This will then allow you to submit these forms on your lawyer page on the main beYou website.

To process a marriage application:

1. Go to http://beyouworld.com/professions/law.
2. Select the Marriages tab (it's the first tab by default).
3. Click New Marriage.
4. Customer Name\*: Enter the username of Spouse #1 (aka Head of Household). When the name starts to autopopulate in the drop down list, select it.
5. Participant Name: Enter the username of Spouse #2. When the name starts to autopopulate in the drop down list, select it.
6. Click initiate marriage certificate.

**All parties involved will have to confirm their involvement** in the marriage by visiting their profile page and clicking on the confirmation at the bottom on the family section of their profile page. Failure of all parties confirming will result in the application not completing.

beYou marriage certificates take up to five days to process once all of the confirmations have been approved and the application filed. Once the process has been completed, the fulfillment code will appear on your marriages page and you can send it to your client.

**REMINDER**: When typing the names of the people involved, please allow the form to auto-lookup the names matching what you are typing. This will ensure you get the correct spelling of all names involved. The auto lookup will start working after at least 3 characters are typed.

\***Customer Name**: The customer name field is for the person who will be treated as the main party of the marriage. This carries significance with respect to families. If either party is in a family ensure that they are treated as the customer. If the other participant is not in a family already, they will be added into the customers family when the certificate is ready.