Okla. Admin. Code § 550:1-5-7

Current through Vol. 42, No. 8, January 2, 2025

Section 550:1-5-7 - Common law beneficiary requirements

(a) In order for the Oklahoma Police Pension & Retirement Board to find in an individual proceeding that an applicant is a beneficiary based upon a common law marriage, the applicant asserting a common law marriage must prove by clear and convincing evidence the following elements:

(1) An actual mutual agreement between the spouses to be husband and wife;

(2) A permanent relationship;

(3) An exclusive relationship, proved by cohabitation as husband and wife; and

(4) The parties to the marriage must hold themselves out publicly as husband and wife.

(b) Documentation accepted by the board as evidence of the existence of a common law marriage shall be; joint tax returns; joint bank accounts titled as husband and wife; real property deeds titled as husband and wife; and/or titles to vehicles and machinery held as husband and wife.

Okla. Admin. Code § 550:1-5-7

Added at 28 Ok Reg 2061, eff 7-11-11

Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 34, Issue 24, September 1, 2017, eff. 9/11/2017