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wrote:
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> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >It does provide legal protection for spouses. Everything from
> >parental rights, to Social Security benefits, to
> >the right to determine what happens to the body after death.
> >
> >That was uppermost in our minds when we got married.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton

>
> Here the benefits are the same after two years of co-habitation.


Some of the USain states have "common law" marriage after living
together for 7 years. Seems that Virginia doesn't have that
though.