| Robert 2008-02-18, 9:56 pm |
| On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:36:00 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:20:33 -0600, Robert <no@e.mail> wrote:
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>In Colorado, if you represent yourself as being married, you are
>common-law married.
The law is the same in the other 10 common law states. It won't work for same-sex
'marriage', though.
>I wonder how Palimony suits would work if they find out that the
>person being sued never got divorced from his earlier marriage.
By definition, palimony is a "non-marriage relationship contract." Because it's not a
quasi-marriage, family courts have no jurisdiction. It's handled like any other contract.
It there's no written contract, the court will 'construct' one.
>As far as reproductive rights go - the fact that more and more people
>choose not to marry while having children might be changing how the
>state handles things.
The way states and Divorce Lawyers handle things (badly) is the reason WHY the marriage
rate has fallen so much. The people have voted with their feet.
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