What is evidenced now
Official law, government guidance, court decisions, demographic research and clearly sourced history.
Big ideas deserve clear sources and visible seams.
Global Group Marriages is openly pro-group-marriage. Advocacy becomes stronger when present law, current evidence, practical proposals and imaginative futures are easy to tell apart.
Concept artwork
Three lanes of knowledge
Each lane serves a different purpose. None needs to pretend to be another.
What people could design
Household agreements, care systems, policy reform, practical tools and testable social structures.
What stretches the mind
Stories, simulacra, future institutions and concept artwork that reveal questions before reality answers them.
How the atlas is built
The method takes inspiration from the Australian Legal Engine and Australian Visa and Activity Atlas, then repeats the source work country by country.
- Start with the question.
Separate marriage status, offences, contracts, property, inheritance, parentage, adoption, immigration and healthcare.
- Prefer official sources.
Use legislation, government guidance, courts and official reform material before commentary.
- Name the jurisdiction.
National, state, provincial, local, customary and religious systems are not interchangeable.
- Quote narrowly and explain plainly.
Keep the legal meaning visible without burying the reader in formal language.
- Date the check.
Every country guide states when sources were reviewed and what needs checking next.
- Keep gaps public.
An unanswered question is recorded as a gap, not filled by confidence.
Core source register
Country-law checkpoint: initial guides were checked against official sources on 29 August 2026. They are public legal information, not advice for a particular person or household.