Common-law marriage

It is a form of marriage different from the civil one. There is no official registration for this marriage. People just live together and there is no license to confirm their union. Sometimes, this kind of marriage is also called as open marriage. There is also a difference between common-law and open marriage. Both these kinds of marriage are not the official marriages. Though, the common-law marriage is unregistered marriage but recognized as union of two people by government according to number of years spent in this marriage. But the open marriage is just living together of two people and no law will recognize it as official union.

In case if people of common-law marriage will decide to separate they have a right to sue each other for some benefits. The court will recognize those claims as legitimate according to code of law. But it is not each country where the common-law marriage is recognized. There are countries that recognize only the civil marriages and there is no way for people who live together (even if they live together for 10 years) to be recognized as a couple. As so, they have no rights to claim for each other and to sue each other. If there are some demands they have for each other they will have to deal with it themselves.

This is the main reason for most people to refuse the common-law and open marriages and to make their choice in a favor of the civil marriage. People want to have something that will provide them with feeling of safe, and they recognize the right to sue another person as that safe. Though, it is a wrong way of thoughts. There is not the money or other material benefits that are of great importance, but the spiritual factors of the marriage. And, frankly speaking common-law and open marriage is the most candor union of people. Their love and willing to be together are the only reasons for them to stay together. They need no guarantees, they trust each other and they are pleased with that trust.

There is nothing wrong in open marriage, though most people recognize it as abnormal union. No one is allowed to say so, as people are free to make their own choices in this life. There is nothing wrong with open marriage. It is the same union of two people but without a stamp. So what? What the point of the stamp? No point. There is no such stamp that would be able to keep people together. If there is no love and mutual understanding and respect – sooner or later people will divorce each other, and no stamp will prevent it. The open marriage is just the same marriage with civil one. It is a marriage that will bring no troubles on a day when people will decide to live separate and to say "Good bye" each other.