Angela Luis v. Kevin Gaugler.

I respectfully but unreservedly dissent. In my judgment, the majority has erred: (1) in underestimating the probative force of the meticulous and voluminous fact-finding carried out by the trial justice (including numerous very explicit credibility determinations); and (2) in opining that, "even giving the trial justice's factual findings their due deference, we are not persuaded that her findings amount to 'clear and convincing' evidence [of a common law marriage]." It is my definite view that the trial justice's findings of fact and her determinations about credibility do very clearly and…