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Common Law Marriage
Texas is one of the very few
states that recognizes a common law marriage, or more precisely, a marriage
without formalities. Even though the Statutory framework for such a
marriage appears to be quite simple and straightfoward: either properly file a
proper Declaration and Registration of Informal Marriage; or prove in Court that
a man and woman 1) agreed to be married, 2) after that agreement lived together
in Texas as husband and wife, and 3) represented to others that they were
married. In reality, proof of a common law marriage (or the denial of a common
law marriage) is very tricky, fact-intensive, and is NOT something a lay person
should even think about without adequate legal representation. Bt the way,
"if you snooze you lose," as there is a statutory time limit for
instituting the lawsuit to prove the alleged common law marriage.
© 2006, Law Offices of Raggio & Raggio, P.L.L.C.
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