Legal Question in Family Law in Alabama

Careful! Alabama is one of the states which recognizes common law marriage. If you participated in a marriage ceremony, intended to be married and you and your bride (or groom)held yourselves out to the community as husband and wife -- all without a marriage license -- you only attempted a ceremonial marriage. That ceremonial mariage may be invalid, but you may still meet the requirements of a common law marriage. If so, only a divorce can end that common law marriage. A common law marriage is just a valid as any other marriage, and can only be dissolved by annulment or divorce. I suggest you seek either an annulment or divorce. If you don't, you will not ever be able to validly marry anyone else ---- because you will already be married!