Florida Common Law

This question applies to Florida.
How long does a couple have to be living together for Common Law to take effect?

Now, based on this, if two people were living together and splitting a mortgage, and the male wanted to separate, could the female successfully
pursue to have the male continue paying for half the house if he moved
out and lived with someone in another state?

If anyone has any suggestions, that would be great. I was hoping that
maybe 'toasted' would run across this message because I saw that he
was from Florida and may know this a little bit better.

Thanks,
Jeremy Swanson
[email]graveyardinc@hotmail.com[/email]

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Originally posted by jeremys2002
This question applies to Florida.
How long does a couple have to be living together for Common Law to take effect?

Now, based on this, if two people were living together and splitting a mortgage, and the male wanted to separate, could the female successfully
pursue to have the male continue paying for half the house if he moved
out and lived with someone in another state?

If anyone has any suggestions, that would be great. I was hoping that
maybe 'toasted' would run across this message because I saw that he
was from Florida and may know this a little bit better.

Thanks,
Jeremy Swanson
[email]graveyardinc@hotmail.com[/email]

My response:

Florida is NOT a common law marriage State. There is no marriage. The reality of the relationship is that the two people were merely "shacking up" together. That's it.

Either party may sue the other for "Partition" of the mortgage, and force a sale of the property, or to force a refinance to take one person's name off of the mortgage, to buy the other person out.

IAAL