A fairly large component of common law marriage is that the couple in question must present themselves to the world as a married couple. There is no scenario wh

A fairly large component of common law marriage is that the couple in question must present themselves to the world as a married couple. There is no scenario where an unmarried cohabitating couple is forced into a common law marriage by the government, unless they're lying about wanting to be a married couple, but you can do that with statutory marriage too, and it'd be their fault.