My company is progressive

[RegularJoe]

wow. my employer just announced that starting next year they will offer benefits for all 'domestic parternships' - either same sex or opposite sex.

didn't know the people i worked for were so nifty.

[Forrest]

Larry Craig has done a lot for the movement.

[Gregory]

My health insurance covered my common-law wife, which in South Carolina isn't defined by time of cohabitation. All you have to do is identify yourself as spouses, and you're instantly common-law.

[Jef UK]

Barnes & Noble does too, and has for at least a decade.

[Buk Was Right]

My health insurance covered my common-law wife, which in South Carolina isn't defined by time of cohabitation. All you have to do is identify yourself as spouses, and you're instantly common-law.

Does it have to be mutual...

I'd be declaring myself spouses with whoever struck my fancy at the moment...

[Gregory]

Does it have to be mutual...

I'd be declaring myself spouses with whoever struck my fancy at the moment...

They do have to identify themselves as your spouse on the paperwork.

[Buk Was Right]

They do have to identify themselves as your spouse on the paperwork.

DAMNIT!

A loophole in my master plan to marry women against their will...

[Mister Mets]

If they kept the old policy, they could afford to pay you more.

[Kingsumo]

wow. my employer just announced that starting next year they will offer benefits for all 'domestic parternships' - either same sex or opposite sex.

didn't know the people i worked for were so nifty.

Wow that is great. The more companies that do this the better.


My health insurance covered my common-law wife, which in South Carolina isn't defined by time of cohabitation. All you have to do is identify yourself as spouses, and you're instantly common-law.

That sounds like a remarkably easy way to go about it.

[Gregory]

That sounds like a remarkably easy way to go about it.

It's true. I called a lawyer, and the "seven year's habitation" myth is just that. It has no legal standing. Just shack up, call yourself common law, and you is, you is.

[KingMob]

It's true. I called a lawyer, and the "seven year's habitation" myth is just that. It has no legal standing. Just shack up, call yourself common law, and you is, you is.

Just hope your lawyer can hold up to the pit bulls that insurance companies hire. :lol:

[Gregory]

Just hope your lawyer can hold up to the pit bulls that insurance companies hire. :lol:

We're talking about a past situation. She received coverage for various check-ups and procedures, and then we were formally married. And I don't know how this might work outside SC.

[edwardmblake]

If they kept the old policy, they could afford to pay you more.

Sarcasm?

[whazisname]

It's true. I called a lawyer, and the "seven year's habitation" myth is just that. It has no legal standing. Just shack up, call yourself common law, and you is, you is.

Yea! Now she has the right to take half of all your stuff!

(You peeps is friggin crazy.)

[Gregory]

Yea! Now she has the right to take half of all your stuff!

(You peeps is friggin crazy.)

Divorced already, and she got little more than some cookware and the cats.

[RickLM]

I would totally pretend to be gay, perhaps with a crazy roommate, and then we'd meet Jessica Biel....

[Flonk]

Divorced already, and she got little more than some cookware and the cats.

in other words, half your stuff.

[Gregory]

in other words, half your stuff.

She would have gotten more when she ran away (while I was at work) had she not left behind a painting done by her dead grandfather. I used it for leverage to speed along the divorce where we each walked away without further splitting the property.