July 2006

201-Year-Old Law, Unconstitutional

July 21, 2006

Yesterday, Superior Court Judge Benjamin Alford of New Bern, North Carolina struck down a North Carolina law that makes unmarried couples living together illegal.

Living Together Unmarried, and Illegally

July 18, 2006

In North Carolina, according to an 1805 law, if a couple is not married and cohabitates, they are guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. Cohabitation by unmarried couples is also still illegal in Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia.

The Marriage Gap

July 13, 2006

A study released yesterday revealed that people who were less financially comfortable and less educated tended to have higher levels of divorce or never marry at all, compared to those with higher levels of incomes and education. According to “The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America,” this is known as [...]