Until recently in Pennsylvania, this was still valid. Well, I don't know about the goats, but it's possible. Common law marriage did not have a time frame; you merely had to hold yourselves out as married. Then there was some court case about inheritance or something and they realised how messy that got.
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Date: 2008-11-07 08:29 pm (UTC)