By Mark Hansen | ABA Journal
A gay Washington, D.C. man has asked a family court judge to recognize him as the common-law husband of his late companion.
The case may be the first seeking legal recognition of a common-law gay marriage, The Wall Street Journal reports.
James Spellman, 55, says he and Michael Kelly, a mortgage banker who died in February at age 68, had lived together as a married couple since 1995. The District of Columbia has been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples since 2010, but Spellman says the couple never legally married.
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