229 Ga. App. 393 - Wright v. Goss’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “[I]f the factfinder finds as true that the parties sometimes held themselves out as not married when that was convenient or served their purposes and at other times held themselves out as married, then the factfinder would be compelled to conclude that the party who has the burden to prove a common law marriage existed would fail because the evidence conclusively shows that one element is disproved: that the parties agreed to live together as husband and wife. [Cit.] It would be unlawful to agree to do that only periodically. Either you agree to be married, and married you are all the time, or you do not, in which case you are not married at all. [Cit.] 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 Ga. App. 147 - Franklin v. Franklin

2. “One’s legal residence for the purposes of [OCGA § 15-9-31] is the same as his domicile. ... ‘‘A man may have several residences, but only one place of domicile. There must be a concurrence of actual residence, and the intention to remain, to acquire a domicile. ‘Domicile,’ unlike ‘residence,’ means a permanent place of abode, whereas ‘residence’ is not necessarily permanent, and may be at some place other than the place of domicile.” Davis v. Holt, 105 Ga. App. 125, 129 (1) (a) ( 123 SE2d 686 ) (1961).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 294 Ga. App. 459 - Kean v. Marshall