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Uben Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-15-08 08:19 AM
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2. Yes
Edited on Sun Jun-15-08 08:22 AM by Uben
The wife and I got married by going to the courthouse and getting a license for informal marriage. It cost $25. No ceremony, no vows, just two signatures stating we had lived together as a couple for 6 months or more. This allowed us to be recognized by the government as a married couple, when in reality, we were never married.

We did it for the legal staus, taxes, etc.

The state is Texas.
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  -Can a man and a woman floridablue  Jun-15-08 08:16 AM   #0 
  - Absolutely. Sometimes it happens by doing nothing: Common-law marriage  PeaceNikki   Jun-15-08 08:18 AM   #1 
  - Yes  Uben   Jun-15-08 08:19 AM   #2 
  - I think they should be able to  goddess40   Jun-15-08 08:20 AM   #3 
  - The replies are interesting but is there a legal distinction between "civil union" and "marriage"?  jody   Jun-15-08 08:29 AM   #4 
  - What's interesting is that the assumption of common-law marriage applies to hetero relationships.  PeaceNikki   Jun-15-08 08:40 AM   #6 
  - I've wondered this as well  moose65   Jun-15-08 08:37 AM   #5 
 

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