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When an address is shared between two contacts, it is likely that there is also a relationship (eg spouse, child, volunteer etc). Currently, a relationship is added automatically for shared addresses between indiv/households and indiv/org. For indiv/org, an employer/employee relationship is created - but this is not always correct.  There seems to be no way of preventing this without code changes.

The suggestion is that when the box for "Use another contact's address" is ticked and the second contact has been selected, then it checks the types of both contacts and displays a multi-select list of possible relationships.  To preserve current behaviour, it could default to selecting a employer relationship for the indiv/org case.

This would avoid the unexpected and possibly unwanted addition of employer relationships and streamline the adding of relationships when addresses are shared.

See processSharedAddressRelationship() in Core/BAO/Address.php

sounds like a good improvement