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With nearly half of marriages destined to end in divorce, the government has announced that from 1 September 2009, it will be a legal requirement for both parties to submit a Nuptial prior to their wedding.

The new ‘NIPs’ will compel engaged couples to share information that may affect their willingness to proceed with the marriage, including a full Emotional Baggage Survey and standard searches on Undeclared STD History, Mother-In-Law Suitability and The Previous Partners’ Explanations for the Relationship Ending.

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Posted: Jul 16th, 2009
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The government’s much criticised Home Information Packs, or HIPs, have come under renewed attack after it emerged that home owners are not obliged to divulge information regarding supernatural phenomena. A number of first time buyers have complained that they have purchased homes unaware of problems such as diabolic apparitions outside the upstairs window at midnight, the doors of kitchen cupboards flying open and closed to the sound of Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana and the rather poky and damp cellar being replaced by a flaming portal to the depths of hell. ‘I’m sure we would have remembered that if the estate agent had mentioned it’ said one distraught home-owner.

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Posted: Jun 30th, 2009
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