Common Law Marriage is an arrangement where non-married persons are treated as married persons under the law. The arrangement has been abolished in the vast majority of U.S. states; currently ...

Do you assume common law marriage exists everywhere? At some point growing up I “learned” that any couple who lives together ...

However, according to the Unmarried Equality website, that’s a total myth. According to the National Conference of State Legislature, a common law marriage means you’re legally married without ...

Counselor Elisabeth LaMotte advised, "A monogamous relationship is the right move for many, but not for everyone. The ...

Thus, as Franklin later wrote, the former couple’s “mutual Affection was revived,” and they were joined in a common-law marriage on September 1, 1730. There was no ceremony. Deborah simply m ...

Same-sex couples in Japan do not have the same legal status as opposite-sex couples in common-law marriages. The internal affairs ministry, which has jurisdiction over the basic resident ...