To: RobRoy
"If you get along, keep on living together."This would legally be a common law marriage. The court would still, in all probability, do the same thing as it would during the dissolution of a conventional marriage.
121 posted on
12/30/2004 10:09:27 AM PST by
Bonaparte
(Of course, it must look like an accident...)
To: Bonaparte
See post 76
HERE for a list of all the states where this is true. Of course activist judges who write law rather than interpret it could care less...
130 posted on
12/30/2004 10:17:07 AM PST by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: Bonaparte
It depends on the state. Texas has common law mariage (and common law divorce), Washington does not. California doesn't have it either, but does have palimony. In California the divorce is divided up by a computer program called Dissomaster.
244 posted on
12/30/2004 12:29:54 PM PST by
NathanR
(Mexico: So far from God; So close to the USA.)
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