Common law marriage is still marriage
June 24, 2015
I am amazed at the number of folks contacting my office who have inadvertently gotten themselves married via common law marriage. I am also amazed
April 16, 2011
Yesterday, for the first time in my 17+ years of practicing family law, I helped validate a common-law marriage. Unlike the typical common-law marriage litigated
Why won’t South Carolina end common-law marriage?
October 14, 2009
On July 24, 2019, the South Carolina Supreme Court finally (and only prospectively) abolished common-law marriage in South Carolina. See South Carolina Supreme Court finally
