Brian Gill v. Rodney Van Nostrand

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging that the District of Columbia has “long recognized common -law marriages”
• naming evidence of durable cohabitation and the general reputation of the relationship among relatives and acquaintances as factors to weigh in a common-law marriage analysis
• listing elements of common law marriage, with the “general reputation regarding the parties’ relationship” providing mere evidence of those elements
• “We now expressly recognize, as the trial court did and as Obergefell [and other authorities] require, that a same-sex couple may enter into common-law marriage in the District of Columbia and that this rule applies retroactively.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).