She asks Americans to consider her fate: if forced to return to Honduras, she risks further assaults by her former common-law husband, who threatened to kill her.
He was joined by defeated first-round candidates, including Ségolène Royal, his former common-law wife and the party's failed 2007 presidential candidate, who was crushed into fourth place in the primary.
Where have the facts gone?" Mr King has been separated from Doreen McGowan, his former common-law wife and Jason's mother, for almost 15 years, but had developed a relationship with his son in the past six years.
The bond is so tight, in fact, that Chavez's former common-law wife, Herma Marksmen, told American diplomats that Chavez confides in only two people, Castro and his elder brother, Adan.
He'd been hoping to have his tangled personal life cleared up before the baseball season, but now it appears that the dispute between the Yankee slugger Dave Winfield and his former common-law wife, Sandra Renfro, is going to drag on a bit longer.
As the Toronto Sun reported last November, a drug dealer named Scott MacIntyre, Kathy Ford's (Rob's sister) former common-law spouse, barged into the Ford family residence in January 2012 and threatened to kill the mayor.
To maintain ties to other common law countries, mostly fellow former British colonies like Canada and Australia, Hong Kong's highest court, the Court of Final Appeal, invites foreign judges to serve in temporary roles.
"The House of Lords upheld, in principle, the right of innocent ex-employees to sue a former employer for common law damages where revelations concerning the employer's corrupt practices had damaged their prospects of future employment in the industry," one employment expert suggested.
Except in Africa where nearly all the former colonies have adopted the presidential system, the English parliamentary system has served as the template for the governments for many former colonies, and English common law for legal systems.
It also is noteworthy that the principle of state sovereign immunity stands distinct from other principles of the common law in that only the former prompted a specific constitutional amendment.
