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Goin' to the courthouse...
Oct. 19th, 2021 07:54 pm...and we're gonna get informally married!
We went to the nearest Harris County Courthouse Annex with a County Clerk office (there are 10 county clerk offices in my county - there is a population of 4.7 million) and filed form Form H1057, "Declaration of Informal Marriage." "Informal Marriage" is how you say "common law marriage" in Texan. This declaration seems to be unique to Texas; functionally it's a marriage certificate and cements that we are married rather than having to construct it from various things like how we filed our taxes, recollection of others, etc.
It was just a formality, documenting a marriage that has legally existed since the summer of 2020, but I still ugly happy cried in the car because of the joy at having this.
I'm also proud of how much I healed. 3 years ago I couldn't have done this because I still needed to recover from my first marriage.
We went to the nearest Harris County Courthouse Annex with a County Clerk office (there are 10 county clerk offices in my county - there is a population of 4.7 million) and filed form Form H1057, "Declaration of Informal Marriage." "Informal Marriage" is how you say "common law marriage" in Texan. This declaration seems to be unique to Texas; functionally it's a marriage certificate and cements that we are married rather than having to construct it from various things like how we filed our taxes, recollection of others, etc.
It was just a formality, documenting a marriage that has legally existed since the summer of 2020, but I still ugly happy cried in the car because of the joy at having this.
I'm also proud of how much I healed. 3 years ago I couldn't have done this because I still needed to recover from my first marriage.
