There’s also the issue of what “marriage” is defined as in each country. I know that there are states in the US where you qualify as “common law” married if you just live together, both agree you are married, and say in public that you are married. Even stranger is while that sounds a like a liberal thing, it’s not. It’s the law in at least one of the most conservative states in the US.
There’s also the issue of what “marriage” is defined as in each country. I know that there are states in the US where you qualify as “common law” married if you just live together, both agree you are married, and say in public that you are married. Even stranger is while that sounds a like a liberal thing, it’s not. It’s the law in at least one of the most conservative states in the US.
It’s also how marriages worked in Europe for anyone who wasn’t a noble for centuries.