Lambda Legal Senior Staff Attorney Shelly Skeen Dallas courts have already accepted a number of same-sex common-law marriages.
Several were filed in order to qualify for city of Dallas employee pensions. At least one was filed posthumously in order for one woman to qualify for her wife’s social security benefits.
This release is from Lambda Legal about an amicus brief filed in Dallas in a common-law marriage case: — David Taffet “If a long-term committed different-sex relationship defines a