Do you assume common law marriage exists everywhere? At some point growing up I “learned” that any couple who lives together ...

Common-law marriage refers to a relationship in which couples have not filed for marriage at government offices but are effectively in a part ...

Thus, as Franklin later wrote, the former couple’s “mutual Affection was revived,” and they were joined in a common-law marriage on September 1, 1730. There was no ceremony. Deborah simply m ...

Polygamy is still common across much of the Muslim world ... "By 1970," said Marilyn Yalom, author of A History of the Wife, "marriage law had become gender-neutral in Western democracy." ...