Legal Opinion
Watson v. Bowden
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided November 25, 2009No. 2080697PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Judge.
Patrick Watson, the administrator of the estate of Ted Watson (“the estate”), appeals from a summary judgment entered by the Coffee Circuit Court (“the trial court”) holding that Ted Watson (“Watson”) and Gina Bowden were common-law married. We reverse and remand.
Facts and Procedural History
On February 2, 2007, Bowden filed a “petition for protective order of joint marital estate of common law spouse” in the trial court. In that petition, Bowden asserted that she had been the common-law spouse of Watson, who had died on January 25, 2007, and that she and Watson had acquired joint…
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