Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sardonis v. Sardonis · Souza v. O'HARA · Odd Fellows' Beneficial Ass'n v. Carpenter · Peck v. Peck · Williams v. Herrick
Most-quoted passages
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“A common-law marriage [also] requires 'evidence that the parties seriously intended to enter into the husband-wife relationship.' " Smith , 966 A.2d at 114 (quoting Sardonis v. Sardonis , 106 R.I. 469 , 472, 261 A.2d 22 , 24 (R.I. 1970) ). To that end, "the parties must mutually and presently intend to be husband and wife rather than merely become engaged to be husband and wife at some point in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under penalty of perjury, on her tax return forms, and that Angela and Kevin never filed joint tax returns. See id. (holding that the trial justice correctly concluded that the parties' declaring themselves as single on legal documents and forms, including tax returns,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the party seeking to prove the existence of a common-law marriage must at the very least present evidence that he or she had the capacity to enter into the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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