A cert petition was recently filed at the Supreme Court in Case v. Montana on the Fourth Amendment standards for entry into a home to help people in an emergency. The question presented: Whether law ...

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Property division in a divorce depends on whether the state follows community property or common law rules. In community property states, most assets acquired during the marriage belong equally to ...

Did you assume common law marriage existed in every state? I did. I feel like it was one of those bits of information that floated around as simply a given that if you lived with someone for seven ...