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And that is why my marriage is common law, a private arrangement with my spouse that does not include the State. A standard marriage license type of marriage invites exactly this sort of intervention.
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G'day Sharon Secor,
This won't be well received, but "common law[1]" marriages between citizens are also open to STATE intervention.
"Earle Lilly, a noted divorce lawyer from Houston, ...represented a woman who claimed Dave Winfield as her common-law husband and won a $1.6 million judgment."
"Citizenship", alone, "invites exactly this sort of intervention", since, like cattle (chattel), we become the "movable property" of the government, when we "submit [ourselves (individually)] to the dominion of [the] government", or when we don't (individually) rebut the presumption that we have submitted ourselves to the dominion of the government.
The "rancher" gets to decide what his "cattle" can, or cannot, do. The only way out of this is to "withdraw from membership in the [herd]".
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[1] If the two of you are not "citizens" of a government, your marriage will be called a "natural law marriage", because you will be of the natural state, or state of nature.
Conjunctio mariti et faeminae est de jure naturae. The union of a man and a woman [as opposed to "persons" or "citizens"] is of the law of nature. ~ Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary, Maxim of Law
Common Law Marriage Fact Sheet
IF YOU LIVE IN A STATE THAT DOES RECOGNIZE COMMON LAW MARRIAGE: If you live in one of the above states and you "hold yourself out to be married" (by telling the community you are married, calling each other husband and wife, using the same last name, filing joint income tax returns, etc.), you can have a common law marriage (for more information on the specific requirements of each state, see next page). Common law marriage makes you a legally married couple in every way, even though you never obtained a marriage license.
IF YOU LIVE IN A STATE THAT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE COMMON LAW MARRIAGE, there is no way to form a common law marriage, no matter how long you live with your partner. There is one catch: if you spend time in a state that does recognize common law marriage, "hold yourself out as married," and then return or move to a state that doesn't recognize it, you are still married (since states all recognize marriages that occurred in other states). However, this is murky legal territory and we don't recommend experimenting with it!
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Earle Lilly, a noted divorce lawyer from Houston, represented a woman who claimed Dave Winfield as her common-law husband and won a $1.6 million judgment.