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Moving in with your girlfriend...

IUtoSLU

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Originally Posted by GQgeek
I'm pretty sure you still have to be careful. Isn't 2 years common law in most places? Besides which, people that move in together first actually have a higher probability of divorce.

I'm fairly confident that most states have removed common law marriage. Anyway, it would usually require for the couple to hold themselves out to be husband and wife.
 

Master-Classter

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Originally Posted by indesertum
i dunno why anybody would ever want to do this. it's like getting married before actually getting married

Um, isn't that sort of the point?
 

nicad2000

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Originally Posted by GQgeek
I'm pretty sure you still have to be careful. Isn't 2 years common law in most places? Besides which, people that move in together first actually have a higher probability of divorce.

I thought it was more like 7 years?
 

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