[Sca-cooks] Six and counting

[Peters, Rise J.]

When I took the VA bar, they taught us that Virginia did not recognize
common law marriage.

The "hotel thing" is a variation on "marriage by declaration" -- it's not
that they register in a hotel, it's that they register as "mr. and mrs."
thus holding themselves out to the world as a married couple.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elaine Koogler [mailto:ekoogler at chesapeake.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:46 AM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Six and counting
>
>
> Depends on the state.  In Virginia, the law says that if a
> couple lives together
> for 7 years, it's what is called a Common Law marriage.
> However, in Maryland,
> there is no such law, so technically, we still aren't
> married.  For a really
> weird one, a lawyer friend of mine told me that in
> Washington, D. C., if a couple
> registers at a hotel and spends the night together, that that
> is considered
> Common Law!!
>
> Kiri
>
> XvLoverCrimvX at aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 9/6/01 7:34:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:
> >
> > > I am now celebrating 22 years with a wonderful
> fellow...who is gorgeous AND
> > >  ten years younger than I am!!!  And the best news is
> that he's stayed
> > > because
> > >  he wants to...we've never seen the need for a legalized marriage.
> > But if you live in the same house together for like 10
> years, don't you
> > technically become "married"
> >
> > Misha
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