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Your statement is incorrect. You are not automatically married in any state after five years. New York and California do not recognize common law marriage at all. Common law marriage is recognized in very few states and there are requirements that must be met. The reason you must get divorced if you have a legal common law marriage is because you have chosen to benefit from the legal benefits of marriage so if you want to dissolve the marriage you must do it legally.See the related link for the states that recognize common law marriage.Your statement is incorrect. You are not automatically married in any state after five years. New York and California do not recognize common law marriage at all. Common law marriage is recognized in very few states and there are requirements that must be met. The reason you must get divorced if you have a legal common law marriage is because you have chosen to benefit from the legal benefits of marriage so if you want to dissolve the marriage you must do it legally.See the related link for the states that recognize common law marriage.Your statement is incorrect. You are not automatically married in any state after five years. New York and California do not recognize common law marriage at all. Common law marriage is recognized in very few states and there are requirements that must be met. The reason you must get divorced if you have a legal common law marriage is because you have chosen to benefit from the legal benefits of marriage so if you want to dissolve the marriage you must do it legally.See the related link for the states that recognize common law marriage.Your statement is incorrect. You are not automatically married in any state after five years. New York and California do not recognize common law marriage at all. Common law marriage is recognized in very few states and there are requirements that must be met. The reason you must get divorced if you have a legal common law marriage is because you have chosen to benefit from the legal benefits of marriage so if you want to dissolve the marriage you must do it legally.See the related link for the states that recognize common law marriage.
New York does not recognize common law marriages. However, it does recognize common law marriages created in other states.
From the man or the woman?
New York state does not recognize common-law marriage.
If the marriage was legal in the Dominican Republic, the US will recognize the marriage as legal. New York law will apply to anything that occurs in New York. The marriage laws in New York will not apply.
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This would be governed by the International Private Law (IPL) of the area you reside in (in this particular situation: the IPL of New York State). Most states/countries recognise a marriage started somewhere else if that marriage is recognised by the state/country someone previously lived in. (one big exception if that marriage is completely against the customs of the receiving state.) Example: a man and a woman, both their first marriage, are legally married in Egypt, they are still married when they migrate to New York. Example: a man marries his second wife in Egypt, when they are migrating to New York, the marriage will not be recognised Example 3: Someone establishes a legally recognised "common law marriage" in Canada, after relocating to New York they are still married. Example 4: Two gay man married in the Netherlands, after that they relocate to Ohio (too name a more conversative state), the marriage is most likely not recognised Example 5: Two gay man married in the Netherlands, after that they relocate to California (too name a more liberal state), the marriage MIGHT be recognised.
Mudflaps are not required on New York buses!
No. If you were married in St. Lucia, then your marriage is recognized in New York.
The ABC's of Marriage - 1970 was released on: USA: May 1970 (New York City, New York)
No and Yes. No, you cannot use a foreign marriage license to get married in New York, However, in case you are asking if a marriage CERTIFICATE from Turks and Caicos is legal in New York, then the answer is YES. New York State recognizes marriages from other jurisdictions as long as the marriage is legal in the place it was performed. The marriage would only be invalid if it violated "public policy", such as if it were incestuous or polygamous.
If it is a legal marriage, yes it will be recognized.