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In South Carolina you need to declare to someone as a couple that you are married. Merely living with someone for a period of time does not make you married. However, if you filed your federal or state income taxes and declared yourself as a married couple then that would satisfy the requirement.
When I interned for the SC Department of Corrections my senior year at USC (this was 1991), inmates could leave on weekend furlough with immediate family, mother, father, sister, brother, child, spouse, or common law spouse.
For us to recognize the Common Law Spouse, all they had to do was tell me they were Common Law Married and I made them both sign a piece of paper stating this.
This wasn't some legal jargon paper but just declaring the simple statement that they were Common Law Married.
By doing so, they also had to have a legal divorce if they ever split up and wanted to marry someone else.
Since the day you got married, that is the time that the two of you are considered to be as one. So in every action you act as one. There are circumstances that you need each other as your support system: [url=http://www.newsytype.com/10431-heart-surgery-good-marriage/]Key to you surviving following heart surgery might be a good marriage[/url]. It is the latest piece of evidence that married people live longer and better lives than singles.
If you've lived together in SC for 10 years and file taxes together, authorized user in the bank account age you common law married. Also, if he has a power of attorney and had a will and passes away..are you entitled to anything or do you just have to leave?I
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