Editing Polyandry (section)

===Successional polyandry ===
Unlike in fraternal polyandry (where a woman will receive a number of husbands simultaneously), in successional polyandry, a woman will acquire one husband after another in sequence.

This form is flexible. These men may or may not be related. And it may or may not incorporate a [[Hierarchical|hierarchical system]], where one husband is considered primary and may be allotted certain rights or privileges not awarded to secondary husbands, such as biologically fathering a child.

In cases where one husband has a primary role, the secondary husbands have the power to succeed the primary if he were to become severely ill or be away from the home for a long period of time or is otherwise rendered incapable of fulfilling his husbandly duties.

Successional polyandry can likewise be [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]],  where all husbands are equal in status and receive the same rights and privileges.  In this system, each husband will have a wedding ceremony and share the paternity of whatever children she may bear.