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In states where common-law marriages are allowed, such marriages cannot have the same validity as ceremonial marriages.

A hold-harmless clause is designed to relieve someone from responsibility or loss arising out of a transaction.

Consanguinity is relationship by marriage.

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below. personal jurisdiction assign QMCSO obligee IV-D long-arm jurisdiction arrears levy pendente lite imputed income required to enforce a support order transfer health insurance person owed a debt enforcement agency nonresident defendant still due seizure during the litigation assumed to exist

The courts in some states oppose the enforceability of cohabitation agreements because:

The violation of the technical requirements for marriage does not invalidate the marriage in most states.

All gifts are revocable.

A broken engagement in some states might constitute a breach of contract and fraud.

Before marriage was legalized in every state, persons in a civil union were granted every state and federal right and benefit accorded a marriage.

A quasi contract is created to avoid ________________________ .