Discover the differences between common law and community property states in marital property division during divorce. Learn what counts as marital property.

Simon Duncan receives funding from the ESRC. Marriage used to be an essential gateway into adult life, allowing legitimate sexual intimacy, parenting and homemaking. But these days, most couples live ...

So you've been with your partner for a long time. It's time to start considering yourselves common-law married, a sort of "marriage-like" status that triggers when you've lived together for seven ...