• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Wait a minute, don’t you need a marriage certificate from the government to be legally recognised as married?

      • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Seriously. These idiots trying to “prove” things to their skeptical wives are just fucking their wives over. The IRS is going to fuck the wives just as hard as it fucks the idiots.

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      9 months ago

      Not necessarily. In my state you are common law married if you cohabitate with someone of the opposite sex for 5 years.

      Fortunately it doesn’t come up unless you break things off and your partner tries to argue it in court, but it is still fucked.