Why is marital status part of legislative data in personal details

Summary:

We can see marital status field in personal details in demographic info. In backend, it is part of legislative data and therefore we need to put a start date/change date whenever updating marital status.

We want to understand the logic of keeping this info in legislative data and need for mandatory start date/change date?

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