What would your reaction be if you found out as an adult that your parents never married? (wife, spouse)
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Interested in responses...no I'm not going through this but want to hear feedback.
Situation: The couple lived as a married couple, were living together for nearly 45 years, everyone assumed they were married, raised children, had the house, two cars, fenced yard, etc; wife took on husbands name, now the husband passes {2015} away, wife not entitled to husband social security benefits. Children find out.
What would be your reaction? Your issues with this, if any?
Me personally, I would be disappointed but my curious nature would be why they never married? What circumstances surrounded why they just wanted to live together. What's the deep dark secret? LOL
Is it any business of the child/children to know this? Is it betrayal by the parents not tell their children as adults?
Interested in responses...no I'm not going through this but want to hear feedback.
Situation: The couple lived as a married couple, were living together for nearly 45 years, everyone assumed they were married, raised children, had the house, two cars, fenced yard, etc; wife took on husbands name, now the husband passes {2015} away, wife not entitled to husband social security benefits. Children find out.
What would be your reaction? Your issues with this, if any?
Me personally, I would be disappointed but my curious nature would be why they never married? What circumstances surrounded why they just wanted to live together. What's the deep dark secret? LOL
Is it any business of the child/children to know this? Is it betrayal by the parents not tell their children as adults?
They are probably common law married anyway if they live in my home state of Texas. Many states recognize common law marriages, especially for cases of probate. They represented themselves as being married, so the wife could probably get SS.
Otherwise, I wouldn't care one way or the other. Who cares?
If they lived together for 45 years, it really wouldn't matter to me if they actually had a ceremony or not. Hopefully they had the sense to have wills in place to direct the estate to the surviving non-spouse.
They are probably common law married anyway if they live in my home state of Texas. Many states recognize common law marriages, especially for cases of probate. They represented themselves as being married, so the wife could probably get SS.
Otherwise, I wouldn't care one way or the other. Who cares?
Agreed 100%. The woman has a good case and needs a lawyer.
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