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Is a common law attorney someone who legally becomes your lawyer after you’ve lived with them for a certain amount of time
I assume you know and are joking, but in case you (or someone else) doesn't know - sovcits commonly argue that courts have to operate under Common Law or Admiralty Law. They frequently try to get cases thrown out because that's not a thing so courts obviously refuse to call themselves either.
Which is objectively more bonkers than the silly situation I had cooked up
Funny enough, in Canada we have common-law and civil-law (Québec), which is where my mind immediately went.
This is actually true of the United States, as well. It's Common Law for pretty much everywhere and Civil Law for Louisiana.
And of course both in the case of US and Canada it is a legacy from the UK, which also have Common Law (unlike the rest of Europe).
TIL. I knew Louisiana had a French history, but not that it maintenaned it in anyway, let alone through the legal code.
My sister won't take the bar anywhere else, I assume because she had to learn a ton of arcane Louisiana nonsense that doesn't translate anywhere else
Everyone thinks that's how it works, but you have to call them your lawyer, and they have to call you their client. You both have to behave like you're in that level of relationship. It's not automatic or forced just because you live together and have sex.
Or immediately if you have a child together