PGP in FIDO

Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at lehman.com
Sat Oct 2 16:48:50 PDT 1993



Ed Carp says:
> FYI, to be married in this way, you have to declare yourself in public as
> married - introducing yourself as someone's husband or wife, for example, is
> enough.  But being "common law" married, it's only "legally" - that is, if
> one or both parties want to dissolve the marriage and don't want to exercise
> their rights, they can just walk away from the marriage.

Untrue. Common law marriage is a real marriage in every single sense.
There is no legal difference in states that recognize it. You need a
real honest to god divorce in order to end one. Look it up if you
don't believe me.

Perry







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