Scarecrow said:I had an interesting thought this morning...
If cohabiting makes you "legally" married (guilty of bigamy), wouldn't living apart (separated) then make you "legally" divorced?
How can they have it one way and not the other?
To me this looks like just one more form of persecution.
Also how long would a person need to cohabitate before you are married? If they decide you have been together long enough to be married, then it is obvious they want you apart. So...........how long do you need to be apart then before you are no longer married or never labeled married in the first place and are both of these the same length?. And if you need to be together for 6 months before you are married, then what if you go on a fishing trip at 5 months and 3 weeks. Do you start the 6 months over again? Does it need to be in a house? (All polygamists would then hit the road in RV's) (Really makes you wonder when you meet all those RV's on the highway traveling together?) And if you cohabitate past the deadline more than once, are you then a "repeat offender" (known as a poly-poly offender)? It is a good thing they did not leave those miners in South America unrescued and together for too long. And what about the orbital space lab? What if you have two houses on the border in two different states with two different cohabitation determination time periods and the ladies switch houses every couple of months? And if cohabitating for one year with one lady is marriage then cohabitating for one year with two ladies is just a half a year for each isn't it? If you cohabitated with 12 ladies then you would not be married to anyone for 12 years.
I mean really now......do the math......someone needs to be able to count past two?!