OT: What?
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 16:14 |
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> > >Very few states still have common-law marriages. And I believe those
> >
> > Actually, most still have common-law marriage on the books.
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>In that they recognize common-law marriages that went into effect before
>the law changed, yes, but most of them have since changed the law such
>that new common-law marriages aren't formed.
Actually, no.
"In fourteen states and the District of Columbia (see below), though, common
law marriages are recognized." (here, "recognized" = "still being done")
See
http://www.unmarried.org/common-law-marriage.html
Seems it's even more common in Canada than in the USA.
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