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  This person is literally arguing just to argue like whyyy
context: There is, it is called Adult Adoption. >
  
  Lemme ask my friend if i can adopt him >
  
  Just putting this out there, but if there is some rich person who wants to adopt an adult daughter for inheritance purposes.... I am here :p
  But yeah, it is pretty rare, and I think it is typically for legal issues such as leaving your money to non-family.  
  There was also a movie that had this theme.  Music in my Heart with Tony Martin. >
  
  If said rich someone also wants an adult son I am here! >
  
  Gonna be honest, it depends on how rich this someone is...
  If they are rich enough, hello brother! >
  
  I'm actually pretty into this.  Unexpected opinion I hadn't thought about,  but absolutely agree with. >
  
  Never had this thought but I’m with you, I’d really like to be able to legally add someone to my family >
  
  You can adopt adults.
  This was how some gay couples gave survivorship rights to their partners before the legalization of domestic unions. >
  
  “Alright fine, but on paper I get to be the dad!” >
  
  *daddy >
  
  Have your parents, or you, adopt them. I believe that adults can be adopted. >
  
  They can indeed >
  
  In what realm would this benefit? And can you make someone not part of your family? >
  
  Let’s say I have someone who I’m extremely close with, like a brother but not by blood. I want them to be able to visit me if I get hospitalized. I want them to be able to make medical decisions if I’m not able to. I want to be able to take time off to visit them if they get really sick (some jobs only allow this for family). >
  
  You can do all that. Lawyers can help you name people for these exact purposes. >
  
  Not true. Every single privilege you extend to a non relative must be specifically spelled out, and any person can take it to court and get a possible injunction against those privileges depending upon their claims to the court, then it can result in a long time before the court settles it and makes a determination, during which the (for example) hospitalized person who granted the rights can die, rendering the entire process moot. And it involves a huge amount of legal fees, $10-20k in some cases. It’s a huge clusterf’ck. Lawyers have all these wonderful ideas but the bottom line is that those ideas cost money and you cannot do them yourself. (because if you do, anyone who may wish to challenge those rights can say “undue influence, no legal representation, etc” to a court, allegations which give them a stronger case for injunction.) >
  
  Those privileges don't automatically extend to all family members either though, so what's your point? >
  
  They automatically extend to a spouse and next of kin are heavily favored in such situations, but sure…my point is if a person who loves and cares (and vice versa) about a non related person want to have rights of survivorship, visitation and etcetera, there is only one way to do it, and I have no intention of sharing it with someone who isn’t either 1)smart enough to figure it out themselves or 2)established to my satisfaction the information won’t be used in a destructive way. 
  But I’ll tell you what it isn’t: if you’re smart it isn’t by hiring lawyers to drain 10s of thousands of your savings so that at the end of it all, you have a bunch of papers that any person can challenge in court based upon whatever bullshit they make up. 
  I don’t know you, or op, but if you read and are a smart person, you can figure it out on your own. If you approach it for the right reasons, your mind will seek the solution and you’ll find it. If not, you won’t. Makes no difference to me, I don’t know y’all. >
  
  I'm at least smart enough to not waste my time reading these random rants from someone that doesn't seem to understand what they are talking about .