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Ah, this brings up yet another sticky wicket about federalizing marriage laws. “Common Law” marriage is not defined the same way nationally, is it? At least not before this SCOTUS decision? So, what does this mean for the people who, for example, live with a platonic roommate of the same sex, for economic reasons??

Plenty of married people sleep under the same roof, yet do not sleep in the same bedroom.

This decision may have opened a Pandora’s Box of gigantic proportions. Think Medicaid and the laws about impoverishing one “spouse” to care for the other.

21 posted on 06/27/2015 8:07:22 AM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)

In reference to my post above, here is the position taken (at least up until last week) to Common Law in Virginia (where there was a valid, "In Defense of Marriage" statute:

3. Does Virginia have "Common Law Marriages?" No. A common law marriage is one by agreement of two people who consider themselves married without any formal ceremony or license and hold themselves out as married. Such arrangements are not marriages in Virginia, but they will be recognized here if they were valid in the state where they took place and if they were between people who would have been eligible to marry under Virginia law.

29 posted on 06/27/2015 8:17:06 AM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)