Common Law Marriage is an arrangement where non-married persons are treated as married persons under the law. The arrangement has been abolished in the vast majority of U.S. states; currently ...

Resolution carried out a survey which found two-thirds of cohabiting couples wrongly believe "common-law marriage" laws exist when dividing up finances. The number of unmarried couples living ...

Does Social Security recognize common law or do you have to be legally married? My potential life partner is currently on disability collecting Social Security in a neighboring state. If the spousal ...

As a common-law couple, you can take advantage of certain tax credits and benefits unavailable to singles, but you could also ...

Texas does have laws about marriage on the books. One of those laws is that you cannot be married to more than one person, more than one person in another state or more than one person in another ...