Rodriguez v. Avalos

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This controversy is over which of two claimants was the widow of Enrique Ava-los. Margarita Lopez Avalos filed this declaratory judgment proceeding to establish the alleged validity of her prior common law marriage over the purported validity of a later ceremonial marriage, which took place between Enrique and Enedina Rodriguez. The trial Court, sitting without a jury, upheld the validity of the prior common law marriage. Findings of fact and conclusions of law were requested and filed. Enedina, participant in the later ceremonial marriage, appeals, relying in the main on…