Married - by order of the Government

Till debt do us part: a rude shock for de factos
Here is another case of yet another question that can no longer be decided by individuals, but must now be decided by the government. The question is whether two people should be married. Before the de facto marriage was created by government, people could either decide to marry or decide to not marry. The two people involved made the decision. But now government deems that two people may not make the decision not to marry. In fact government will pry into their affairs, and depending on what they have been doing to each other in which bedrooms, paid for by whom, and for how long, government will decide they are in fact married.

"Marriage is being imposed on everyone whether they like it or not," says Patrick Parkinson, professor of law at the University of Sydney. "It will come as a shock to some people."
Yeh, that is exactly the problem.