Alex Harford <piclist@mit.edu> wrote:

> In BC, you are considered common-law if you are living together for
> 6 months. 
> ....
> Things get interesting now that same-sex marriages are now legal
> in BC... what happens when two male roommates live together for
> more than 6 months.  Are they common law?  How do you
> prove/disprove it? :) 

    Seems no different from the already presumably-common issue of
    opposite-sex roommates...

    Is it possible that your characterization of the law in BC is
    incomplete, and that two people must live together AS A MARRIED
    COUPLE for 6 months before they're considered common-law
    married? 

    -Andy

=== Andrew Warren -- aiw@cypress.com
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=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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