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There are 4 types of marriages that are of concern to American lawyers: | There are 4 types of marriages that are of concern to American lawyers: | ||
Common law marriage: based on mutual consent of 2 parties without a ceremony or witness. The evidence for this marriage is long-term co-habitation of the couple. | |||
Putative marriage: this protects an under-age or bigamous marriage in favor of the [https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/putative_spouse_doctrine unaware spouse]. | |||
Proxy marriage | |||
Same-sex marriage | |||