Many couples in Bucks County are deciding to live together rather than get married. It makes sense to test the relationship at the next level before making a bigger commitment and getting married. However, when you live together certain financial arrangements should be very clear. If you have a lease or one person owns the…
Read MoreSame sex couples in in Pennsylvania, in light of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing same sex marriage, should also have the right to prove common law marriage retroactively. Since all common law marriages were abolished in Pennsylvania in January 2005, any couple wishing to prove common law marriages in Pennsylvania now have the…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court’s Same Sex marriage ruling in June has had its first impact on the interpretation of common law marriage in Bucks County, PA jurisprudence. Bucks County Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. issued a ruling reported in the Courier Times July 30 allowing that two women who weren’t legally married but lived as spouses for 12…
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