However, some states recognize so-called “common law marriages,”and allow couples ... You must live together for an amount of time, you both must have the “capacity to marry” (the legal ...

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 ...

Voters in three progressive states ... marriage equality. California, Colorado and Hawaii all have ballot measures that would codify the right of people of all genders to marry under state law.

A proposed Tennessee bill would have the state join the ranks of states seeking to establish a "Covenant Marriage Act." ...

Colorado Senate committee approves same-sex marriage amendment, affirming the will of voters who overturned a 2006 ...