{"id":4600,"date":"2017-04-18T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:00:41","slug":"pre-2005-same-sex-common-law-marriage-is-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"Pre-2005 Same-Sex Common Law Marriage is Valid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A same-sex couple could enter into a valid common law marriage before 2005, and the evidence supported the existence of the marriage. \u00a0<em>In re: Estate of Stephen Carter<\/em>, 159 A.3d 970,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A05040-17o%20-%2010306606816961022.pdf\">2017 PA Super 104<\/a> (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A same-sex couple could enter into a valid common law marriage before 2005, and the evidence supported the existence of the marriage. \u00a0In re: Estate of Stephen Carter, 159 A.3d 970,\u00a02017 PA Super 104 (2017). &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4600\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[124,413],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-common-law-marriage","tag-same-sex-marriage","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}