Don't know if you ever got a reply to your question or not. Illinois is not a common-law marriage state - don't believe that it ever was. I work for Social Security and one of the issues that we sometimes have to determine is common-law marriages. Very few States recognize common-law. Some have in the past but do not do so currently. I finally remembered to check our manuals today. Hope this helps you. - Judy At 11:20 PM 10/10/1999 -0500, Gloria Frazier wrote: >Anyone know the answer to that subject? > >Where is our resident attorney?? > >Gloria > > >==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from ILMACOUP-L-request@rootsweb.com, send a message to > ILMACOUP-L-request@rootsweb.com >that contains in the body of the message the command > unsubscribe >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. AOL requires a >subject line.