Daniel wrote: > Some American state still recognize common law marriage, including > Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Kansas and Colorado. Many other states, > including New York, will recognize a common law marriage that was > validly created in another state. > > after frank theriault wrote: > > >Common law marriage no longer exists. Marriage Statutes, which were > >proclaimed into law in the late 1800's in most jurisdictions, all > >specifically abolished Common Law marriage, so that only marriage > >sanctioned by the state was legal marriage. ...
I was fairly certain, living in Texas, that I had heard there WAS such a thing as common law marriage in Texas. A quick search turned up, among many others, this site http://www.divorcelawtexas.com/txpages/Alimony/commonlawmarriage.asp which looks fairly credible. ERN
