Marriage of convenience

A  (plural marriages of convenience) is a marriage contracted for reasons other than that of relationship, family, or love. Instead, such a marriage is orchestrated for personal gain or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as. In the cases when it represents a fraud, it is called.

Quotes

 * I revolted against this marriage of convenience, this marriage for money and wanted to marry only for love, out of a great passion.
 * Alexandra Kollontai, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926), translated by, Herder and Herder, 1971.


 * The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
 * Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981).