Matter of Estate of Willard

OPINION

WOOD, Chief Judge.

This interlocutory appeal in this probate case involves the validity of the trial court’s ruling that Connie Royal Pugh, Jr. and Joyce, who died February 5, 1977, had entered a valid common-law marriage in Texas. The parties agree that New Mexico will recognize a common-law marriage as valid if the marriage was valid where consummated. Gallegos v. Wilkerson, 79 N.M. 549, 445 P.2d 970 (1968). The appellate issue is whether the evidence supports the requirements for a valid common-law marriage in Texas.

Vernon’s Texas Codes Annotated, Family, Vol. 1, § 1.91 (1975)…