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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 246929" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">How do you know they did this so they could use public assistance? </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">Before I was married and was still living with my now H, I was able to claim "Head of Household" on my tax forms and receive almost all of my money back in taxes, as I was the parent of two kids and wasn't making a heap of money then. And, coincidentally, I file "married separate" now because my H owns his own business and I'd rather keep our incomes and tax stuff separate.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">I know a local couple who had a "committment ceremony". It is not a legal marriage and the pastor from their Episcopalian church performed the service near the river. The reason they chose this over a legal marriage was due in large part to some legal issue concerning the man's wife who had passed away a few years earlier and something with her estate. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: royalblue">I don't like the covert deceit going on with the getting married in the church but not really being married, and find it very surprising that a church/pastor would go along with their plan. However, having a committment ceremony and not making it legal is kind of a nice way of making a committment without the legal entanglements - as long as it's not fraud-driven. But doing so to be able to receive freebies from the state? That's just seedy and wrong.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 246929, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]How do you know they did this so they could use public assistance? [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]Before I was married and was still living with my now H, I was able to claim "Head of Household" on my tax forms and receive almost all of my money back in taxes, as I was the parent of two kids and wasn't making a heap of money then. And, coincidentally, I file "married separate" now because my H owns his own business and I'd rather keep our incomes and tax stuff separate.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#4169e1][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]I know a local couple who had a "committment ceremony". It is not a legal marriage and the pastor from their Episcopalian church performed the service near the river. The reason they chose this over a legal marriage was due in large part to some legal issue concerning the man's wife who had passed away a few years earlier and something with her estate. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=royalblue]I don't like the covert deceit going on with the getting married in the church but not really being married, and find it very surprising that a church/pastor would go along with their plan. However, having a committment ceremony and not making it legal is kind of a nice way of making a committment without the legal entanglements - as long as it's not fraud-driven. But doing so to be able to receive freebies from the state? That's just seedy and wrong.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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