Donate SIGN UP
Home > Home & Garden > Common-law wife

Common-law wife

Avatar Image
Melhirst | 10:54 Tue 05th Feb 2002 | Home & Garden
2 Answers
How long do have to live with someone to become a common-law wife?
prev common-law wife
  
next dumped car
Gravatar

Answers

1 to 2 of 2rss feed

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by Melhirst. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
Avatar Image incitatus
It is now an expression, not a legal reality, so it doesn't really matter. See the answer to the previous question. People use the expression to mean mistress or live in lover because it sounds nicer. It doesn't give you any legal rights or status.
17:56 Tue 05th Feb 2002
Avatar Image awol
It's something which only used to apply in Scotland - if a couple lived togather as man and wife and the woman took the man's name, she was a common law wife. In modern society, with people living togather or as single parents, it doesn't apply.
11:17 Fri 08th Feb 2002

1 to 2 of 2rss feed

Do you know the answer?

Common-law wife

Answer Question >>