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Gosh did you read this?Its going to be tough for guyz,especially those with kids already,how are you going to change key and ask the gal to leave befoe the two years expire?It may also be the first step to bringing to an end age-old customs that require the payment of dowry or exchange of gifts between the couple’s parents before a marriage is consummated.

Story by JOHN MAKENI
Publication Date: 11/25/2007
The days of come-we-stay marriages that last for far too long without being formalised may be over soon, if a proposed law is passed by Parliament.

The draft Marriage Bill 2007 seeks to end the practice by providing that such people can be deemed to be legally married if they have lived together for at least two years.

The proposed law, a copy of which the Sunday Nation obtained, states: Where it is proved that a man and a woman having the capacity to marry have lived together openly for at least two years in such circumstances as to have acquired the reputation of being husband and wife, there shall be a rebuttable assumption that they were duly married.”