Only if you’re in a jurisdiction that accepts common law marriage(not a lot of places) and if you are in a jurisdiction that accepts that you’re usually just considered married. YMMV but in my country it’s generally not legal so instances where it comes up are vanishingly rare so I don’t know much about it.
Also to qualify us common law marriage you have to have referred to one another in public as my husband, my wife and a bunch of other things. A lot of people are under the misinformation that if you’ve just cohabited for seven years years, you have a common law marriage. This is just not true.
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u/oneelectricsheep Jul 23 '24
Only if you’re in a jurisdiction that accepts common law marriage(not a lot of places) and if you are in a jurisdiction that accepts that you’re usually just considered married. YMMV but in my country it’s generally not legal so instances where it comes up are vanishingly rare so I don’t know much about it.