Across
- 2. Living together in a long-term relationship without being married.
- 4. A marital status recognized in some states when a couple lives together and presents themselves as married without a formal ceremony.
- 5. Official government document required before a couple can legally marry.
- 7. Property acquired during marriage that may be subject to legal division.
- 9. Property kept individually by a spouse (e.g., before marriage or by gift/inheritance).
- 10. A person’s legal ability to understand what marriage is and to agree to it.
- 13. A legal union between two people recognized by law.
- 14. The voluntary and informed agreement of both people to enter into a marriage.
- 15. A recognized relationship between two people living together that may provide few/some legal rights similar to marriage.
- 16. Declares marriage legally invalid and as if it never existed.
Down
- 1. A legally recognized relationship between two people that gives them some or most of the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage, but is not called a marriage.
- 3. Duties spouses have to support each other financially in a marriage.
- 6. Abuse (physical, emotional, psychological) by one partner against the other within a relationship or marriage.
- 8. A contract entered into by two people before marriage that sets out how property, finances, and other matters will be handled during the marriage and if the marriage ends in divorce or death.
- 11. Ends a legally valid marriage.
- 12. The act of marrying someone while still legally married to another person.