Thriver, how long of a marriage does your jurisdiction consider a "long-term marriage" for purposes of spousal support?
You have to be married a minimum of 10 years to receive spousal support in my state.
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It's possible she may not being "emotional" about her strategy at all. Anything special kick in at 5 years of marriage, or 15 years of long-term relationship ("common law marriage")?
According to the laws of my state, we were never common-law married. My state requires the following to be considered a common-law marriage:
1. That we agreed to be married (we didn't) 2. We live together as husband and wife (we lived together but we were just BF/GF at the time.) 3. We represent ourselves as married in public. (I.e. we tell people that we are married...we never did this)
Don't think WW can play the alimony or the common-law card, but thanks for bringing that up Starsky.
