HOUSTON, Justice.
Joyce R. Creel filed a declaratory-judgment action in the Chilton Circuit Court, seeking a judgment declaring that she had been the common-law wife of Joseph David Creel, Sr., at the time of his death. The court entered such a judgment. The defendant Deborah Maudlin Creel appeals. We affirm.
Joyce Creel ("Joyce") and Joseph David Creel, Sr. ("Joseph Sr.") were married in 1948. One of them sued for a divorce in 1976, and a final divorce judgment...
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