Jim A stray thought: RE: common law marriages : in college, I took a course in Business Law that was as it turned out, taught by a practicing lawyer, sometimes in the class, he would interject some interesting thoughts: as in one day when he commented that if any of us males in the class ever had a female " in the mood" had convinced her to go to a motel, and to spend the night together, to be careful about the rules for "common Law" marriages in what ever state the two of you were in at the time, and how you registered at the motel, otherwise, he cautioned that in the morning, technically you might actually be married to the woman. Jack Hudson Albuquerque, NM Jim wrote: > In Alabama Yes! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 9:33 PM > Subject: Re: [FLHILLSB] Question (Bass Divorce) > > > >> would common law have to get a divorce ? >> ----- >> Quite possibly no marriage record. Still in the era of Common-Law >> Marriage. If a couple presented themselves to the community for a period >> of >> time as man and wife, or a couple, living together, etc., it was >> considered >> Common-Law. You wouldn't find a record unless someone had a Family Bible >> and >> the couple just picked a date, or did something at home. >> >>> Sometimes after Sunday services, the preacher and wife came to dinner and >>> after dinner, did a "blessing of the union." That was it. No license and >>> no report to the clerk. >>> >>> I know a 25-yr old male raised from his drunken sleeping bed by the point >>> of a rifle barrell, brought to the livingroom of a certain home of a >>> 14-yr >>> old girl, 5 months pregnant, and married right then and there by the >>> girl's mother, with girl and guy's hands on the Family Bible and dad's >>> shotgun in the middle of the guy's back. They had "connections" and at >>> some time, it was legalized, but the date remained the true one. >>> >>> Common Law was eliminated in Fla in the 1960s but many rural people still >>> held to that way, as I personally has to marry many folks for varying >>> legal reasons, tho they'd been "married" for 50+ years or so. >>> >>> Sue >>> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Jack, A few states still have the law on the books! http://www.unmarried.org/common.html STATES THAT RECOGNIZE COMMON LAW MARRIAGE: Only a few states recognize common law marriages: Alabama Colorado Georgia (if created before 1/1/97) Idaho (if created before 1/1/96) Iowa Kansas Montana New Hampshire (for inheritance purposes only) Ohio (if created before 10/10/91) Oklahoma (possibly only if created before 11/1/98. Oklahoma's laws and court decisions may be in conflict about whether common law marriages formed in that state after 11/1/98 will be recognized.) Pennsylvania (if created before 1/1/05) Rhode Island South Carolina Texas Utah Washington, D.C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Hudson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "Jack Hudson and family" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [FLHILLSB] Question (Bass Divorce) > Jim > > A stray thought: RE: common law marriages : in college, I took a > course in Business Law that was as it turned out, taught by a practicing > lawyer, sometimes in the class, he would interject some interesting > thoughts: as in one day when he commented that if any of us males in the > class ever had a female " in the mood" had convinced her to go to a > motel, and to spend the night together, to be careful about the rules > for "common Law" marriages in what ever state the two of you were in at > the time, and how you registered at the motel, otherwise, he > cautioned that in the morning, technically you might actually be > married to the woman. > Jack Hudson Albuquerque, NM > > > Jim wrote: >> In Alabama Yes! >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 9:33 PM >> Subject: Re: [FLHILLSB] Question (Bass Divorce) >> >> >> >>> would common law have to get a divorce ? >>> ----- >>> Quite possibly no marriage record. Still in the era of Common-Law >>> Marriage. If a couple presented themselves to the community for a period >>> of >>> time as man and wife, or a couple, living together, etc., it was >>> considered >>> Common-Law. You wouldn't find a record unless someone had a Family Bible >>> and >>> the couple just picked a date, or did something at home. >>> >>>> Sometimes after Sunday services, the preacher and wife came to dinner >>>> and >>>> after dinner, did a "blessing of the union." That was it. No license >>>> and >>>> no report to the clerk. >>>> >>>> I know a 25-yr old male raised from his drunken sleeping bed by the >>>> point >>>> of a rifle barrell, brought to the livingroom of a certain home of a >>>> 14-yr >>>> old girl, 5 months pregnant, and married right then and there by the >>>> girl's mother, with girl and guy's hands on the Family Bible and dad's >>>> shotgun in the middle of the guy's back. They had "connections" and at >>>> some time, it was legalized, but the date remained the true one. >>>> >>>> Common Law was eliminated in Fla in the 1960s but many rural people >>>> still >>>> held to that way, as I personally has to marry many folks for varying >>>> legal reasons, tho they'd been "married" for 50+ years or so. >>>> >>>> Sue >>>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >