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spousal benefits between couples?
If a couple separates, but never legally divorces in the US, is the "common-law-wife" (another woman) allowed to collect benefits from the man even though his legal wife is alive. Or is there some law that says if you are separated for many years - you are not married?
My uncle would never give my aunt a divorce though she hated him. Now he died and we heard that his girlfriend has been "acting" as his legal wife and collecting benefits because she had kids by him?
I don't want her to get in trouble but I think she broke the law?
Thanks for any answers
1 Answer
- joinme4coffeeLv 78 years ago
The only thing she's entitled to Social Security benefits for her minor children that your uncle fathered. Doubt that she can get anything else without proof of a legal marriage.
