In 1855, defending the idea of common law marriage, a New York judge described marriage as "the most sacred" of social relationships and said that society would be threatened "if an open...
states and the District of Columbia along with some provisions of military law plus two other states that recognize domestic common law marriage after the fact for limited purposes. Common-law marr...
Fewer than a dozen states and the District of Columbia recognize common-law marriages.
Cheating on your spouse is illegal in New York. But adultery may soon be legal in the Empire State thanks to a bill that would finally repeal the 1907 law that is punishable by up to three months b...
marriage has been banned. Virginia joined Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York... the common ground we can find together." Update 04/09/24 1:08 p....
Related LII materials include: ; the LII "Law about ..." marriage page ; the LII pages summarizing the divorce laws of the states and the adoption laws of the states ; the State Statutes by Topic page
A. The common law marriage is a curiosity in the private international law of marriage. In the Commonwealth and Ireland, it may be invoked as an exception to the usual application of the law of the...
7,331 likes, 179 comments - marchstephanie on October 17, 2024: "It is not just my 50th. This year also marks the 25th Anniversary of my common-law marriage to New York City. Oh how I love that gal...
Cheating on your spouse is illegal in New York, but the state might soon change that. A bill working its way through the New York Legislature could repeal a more than a century-old law that makes a...
Using the New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), Reclaim The Records won the first-ever public access to the 1930-1995 marriage index for New York City, over five million records. It too...