Posted on 10/07/2015 5:08:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
For the first time in Texas history, a same-sex relationship has been recognized as a common-law marriage.
Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman signed a judgment acknowledging that Stella Powell and Sonemaly Phrasavath met the legal requirements to be considered married even though their eight-year relationship did not include a marriage license.
Herman’s order, signed Monday but distributed Tuesday, ended Phrasavath’s quest to have her relationship with Powell, who died last year, recognized as a marriage after Powell’s siblings filed a probate suit stating that she had died single because she could not marry another woman under Texas law.
The ensuing legal fight over Powell’s estate mushroomed from a small family-law dispute into a proxy battle over same-sex marriage that involved gay-rights advocates and was strenuously opposed by Attorney General Ken Paxton...
Phrasavath argued that she and Powell met the legal requirements, noting that they began dating in 2006 and celebrated a 2008 marriage ceremony that, though not recognized under Texas law, was performed by a Zen Buddhist priest. They also lived openly as spouses in a Northwest Austin home, she said....
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I am heterosexual.
I have paperwork done by a lawyer attesting to being common law married.
Before doing the paperwork, I asked if common law marriage was still valid and the lawyer said yes.
/johnny
Yes, in Texas.
When was it that you heard that Texas doesn’t recognize common law hetero marriages? I.e. per your info, what year did they stop?
There was a big thing about palimony at the same time.
/johnny
Time to prohibit common law marriage. There are only 8 states that allow it.
Courts help dyke steal from her dead lover’s lawful heirs. Film at 11.
Why didn’t they get married in another state? Obviously, the Buddhist thing wasn’t legal, which really makes it sound like they didn’t want to be married.
Hey, let them get the pitfalls of marriage too.
They wanted it, they got it. Now choke on it.
Alternatively get gubmint out of marriage and let it strictly be a private construct.
Do you HAVE to have sex to be married? Consumation of the marriage is a legal requirement? How queer.
So if two doods live together for 4 years and one dies of a heart attack, his roommate gets his sh@t???
Why don’t my two elderly aunts get this same deal to transfer property?
that is how it used to be and it was rife with fraud. The same fraud predicted, correctly, with this common law marriage ruling.
Eliminate common law marriage. Mandate a written, recorded proof and this door to fraud closes.
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