A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”
The protections would apply to employment, housing, business licensure, places of public accommodation, park usage, and “bias-free policing,” according to the proposal.
Seattle would follow Portland, West Hollywood, Berkeley, California, and a handful of other cities in adopting the expanded protections against discrimination. Under the bill, residents facing unfair treatment could file complaints and seek remedy through Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.
These are settled issues. Turns out last remaining parents with multiple children die all the time leaving more than one person to make decisions and settle inheritance.
Spousal rights < parental rights. Step parents are generally (BIG emphasis on generally here, you can what if this shit to death, your specific cases where the parents aren't fit are not what we're talking about here) made to defer to the child's actual parents when making decisions for that child. I can imagine family court, when it comes to that, will come to the same conclusion with polyspousal relationships. The good news is a system exists to deal with it.
Inheritance, like anything without a will, is split equally among the remaining next of kin, in this case, multiple remaining spouses.
It's already advisable to have a Will in place and to discuss what your preferences are medically with your partner, that wouldn't change with multiple partners. Just like a single parent with multiple children.
Even if these issues weren't settled, even if you have some stupid specific edge case that invalidates everything I've said so far, it doesn't fucking matter. These are not problems. They're inconveniences. They can be settled and are no reason to stand in the way of consenting adults seeking happiness at