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Not So Common (Law) Marriage: Notes From A Blue State, Tom Andrews

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One of the continuing challenges for American marital property law in the twenty-first century, broadly understood, is what to do about property disputes between domestic partners who are not married. More precisely, the challenge is determining what to do when there are property disputes between unmarried intimate partners, whether heterosexual or homosexual. From what I can tell, this is as much of a challenge in Texas as it is in the rest of the country.

In the northwest corner of the country, we have a set of attitudes that, like many social and cultural norms, have found their way into …