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wizzie

Posted 7:47 pm, 11/06/2009

I was told by a probation officer that it was against the law in n.c. for a man and women to live together and not be married , is this true?

AngryKid

Posted 7:48 pm, 11/06/2009

It's true, but not enforced.
:?

AngryKid

Posted 7:49 pm, 11/06/2009

The unlawful cohabitation statute is found under North Carolina General Statutes; Chapter 14, Criminal Law; Article 26, Offenses against Public Morality and Decency:

Quote:

NCGS § 14‑184.

Fornication and adultery.

If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly and lasciviously associate, bed and cohabit together, they shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor: Provided, that the admissions or confessions of one shall not be received in evidence against the other.

Pryinmind

Posted 7:53 pm, 11/06/2009

The surp court over turned all laws like that in the Tex case a few years ago. The state of NC may have a law that says that but the law is unconstitution.

marlonbrando

Posted 7:54 pm, 11/06/2009

We have a law against that, but there is no law against necrophilia.
North Carolina is a strange place.

Kishy

Posted 7:55 pm, 11/06/2009

There is a **** of alot of people breaking the law then. LMAO

lightningkat

Posted 7:55 pm, 11/06/2009

funny thing is if they enforced this law then the jails would have to be enlarged enough to house close to half the state population. Maybe some one could be smart enough to look up the exact figures but me being a blond I'm not sure how to.

Mtnbiker

Posted 7:57 pm, 11/06/2009

wasn't there a civil lawsuit a couple years back where a female deputy (down near Wilmington maybe?) was told to get married or quit cohabitating or she'd be fired

seems like the sheriff was relying on one of those archaic laws like you're talking about

AngryKid

Posted 7:58 pm, 11/06/2009

sho enough was

Deborah Hobbs, 40, says her boss, Sheriff Carson Smith of Pender County, near Wilmington, told her to get married, move out or find another job after he found out she and her boyfriend had been living together for three years. The couple did not want to get married, so Hobbs quit.

Her lawsuit, filed in March in state court, seeks to have the cohabitation law declared unconstitutional.

"Certainly the government has no business regulating relationships between consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes," said Jennifer Rudinger, state executive director of the ACLU. "This law is 200 years old and a lot of people are very surprised that we even have it on the books."

The sheriff told the Star-News of Wilmington last year that Hobbs' employment was a moral issue as well as a legal question. He said that he tries to avoid hiring people who openly live together, but he doesn't send out deputies to enforce the law. . . .

decsurvey

Posted 8:08 pm, 11/06/2009

All you have to do is check in to a motel, register as man and wife and you are legally married.

I do not know if that NC law has changed yet.

smart***

Posted 8:10 pm, 11/06/2009

its also illegal to take in the butt, so BE CAREFUL

lightningkat

Posted 8:10 pm, 11/06/2009

Nice way to save on wedding expenses

lightningkat

Posted 8:11 pm, 11/06/2009

also illegal for the woman to be on top

Mtnbiker

Posted 8:18 pm, 11/06/2009

decsurvey I bet that's a myth about the motel thing because in NC there is no such thing as common law marriage like many other states have

just a guy

Posted 9:58 pm, 11/06/2009

There is a fund for assitance for burial for victims of violent crimes in nc a woman filed for it because her daughter was killed by her boyfriend in her own house. She was denied because the state said she was killed while commiting a crime , the crime being liveing with her boyfriend out of wedlock whitch is still on the books as a class one crime

BushKisser

Posted 10:38 pm, 11/06/2009

it is true, my grandfather has been dead for years but he said when he was growing up, he has saw on several occassions where the neighbors would report something like that in their neighborhood, and the law would come and remove one or the other from the home. if he was living he would be 99, so it hasnt been all that long ago! And now if they are called they should by law remove a gay person from a home where they are sleeping together with the same sex ! Thats whats wrong with this country now, they are enforcing laws that shouldnt be on the books, and not enforcing others that should be! we got our priorities in the wrong order!
For instance, had you rather a gay person talk your young child into having sex with a them, "the same sex"
Or had you rather have them give them a joint of pot?
I know you had rather neither, but
Id alot rather my son smoke a joint then to have sex with another man,
But its going on in our schools, and they not even trying to stop it1

YanksHeels1

Posted 11:34 pm, 11/06/2009

There are alot of old laws like that, that in todays time would be threw out if ever went to the courts..or should be.

Natural_Disaster

Posted 11:49 pm, 11/06/2009

Did you know if a 14 yr old forces a 3 yr old to perform sexual acts, it can be considered child on child molestation and no charges will be filed?

BushKisser

Posted 11:56 pm, 11/06/2009

our moral standards are so low today and people see others living together so often that they think that it is ok to do that ! but actually its not ok, its a sin, and it is against the law, and should be ! but we have relaxed the laws on things the rich want to do, and tightened the laws on what the poor want to do!

oncebittentwiceshy

Posted 09:16 am, 11/07/2009

Thats whats wrong with this country now, they are enforcing laws that shouldnt be on the books, and not enforcing others that should be! we got our priorities in the wrong order!For instance, had you rather a gay person talk your young child into having sex with a them, "the same sex"Or had you rather have them give them a joint of pot?I know you had rather neither, butId alot rather my son smoke a joint then to have sex with another man,But its going on in our schools, and they not even trying to stop it1

After reading the above posting, I'm not surprised you prefer " a joint of pot" in our schools. It's just another myth that gay people are child molesters. Most pedophiles are married, heterosexual men.


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