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re: Went to get divorced and found out I wasn’t married

Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:31 pm to
Posted by Titus Pullo
MTDGA
Member since Feb 2011
28567 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:31 pm to
quote:

That’s what they didn’t have.


How much it cost you to have them "lose it"?
Posted by UMRealist
Member since Feb 2013
35906 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:32 pm to
Posted by MintBerry Crunch
Member since Nov 2010
6013 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:33 pm to
Not how it works in LA
Posted by UMRealist
Member since Feb 2013
35906 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:33 pm to
To be fair guys, this was a very amicable divorce. We weren’t going to sue for alimony or try to ruin each other’s lives. Basically this just saved us some lawyer and filing costs.
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:37 pm to
I've read that it isn't the recording that makes the marriage. When the marriage is recorded, that's an administrative act. The legal act has already occurred.

If it's amicable this probably doesn't matter. Just pretend it didn't happen, I guess.
This post was edited on 5/24/19 at 5:38 pm
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
Member since Nov 2010
108904 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:45 pm to
Sorry, UM. I think I remember when you got married.

And they got rid of common law marriage here in Kentucky when it got attached to a gay marriage ordinance.
Posted by geauxpurple
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2014
17740 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 5:48 pm to
Not that simple. If you have accumulated any assets or liabilities, you certainly have community property issues. A spouse is not going to get screwed out of community property just because a marriage certificate was lost. Not to mention custody/support issues.
Posted by Evil Little Thing
Member since Jul 2013
11637 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 6:07 pm to
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Wait a minute. I live in Louisiana. We still have our original marriage license. Were we supposed to turn that in? There is no notary seal on it.


The officiant is responsible for mailing it in Louisiana. An official copy comes in the mail a couple weeks later.

If the officiant let y’all keep it (the real one, not the decorative one), then you may be single.
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
34147 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 6:18 pm to
Congrats?
Posted by Pitt Road
Mid-Florida
Member since Aug 2017
1229 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 6:22 pm to
Didn't read everything, but this has the potential to be real bad concerning the IRS. They can take this to extremes because they can. They're retarded in a weird way.

Good luck my man.
Posted by Vacherie
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2017
466 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:00 pm to
You are one lucky bastard.
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
24442 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:10 pm to
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Didn't read everything, but this has the potential to be real bad concerning the IRS. They can take this to extremes because they can. They're retarded in a weird way.



How are they going to know? And as long As they acted as a married couple that’s all that matters. It’s not like they acted divorced and lived apart under different roofs or something else.

They’ll file separately or whatever next, and the IRS won’t know they officially got divorced or they just were never married.

It’s not like there’s someone at the IRS double checking the paperwork to make sure every couple that says they are is actually married.
This post was edited on 5/24/19 at 9:13 pm
Posted by Flashback
reading the chicken bones
Member since Apr 2008
8479 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:14 pm to
I'm assuming you're a male so extra good for u.
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
53590 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:17 pm to
quote:

To be fair guys, this was a very amicable divorce. We weren’t going to sue for alimony or try to ruin each other’s lives.



I think you’d be surprised how many divorces start this way.....then the lawyer starts whispering in her ear...
Posted by Chappy
G-Town
Member since Jul 2007
3459 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:04 pm to
quote:


The officiant is responsible for mailing it in Louisiana. An official copy comes in the mail a couple weeks later. 

If the officiant let y’all keep it (the real one, not the decorative one), then ? you may be single




Yeah I think we have the decorative one
Posted by footswitch
Meridianville, Alabama
Member since Apr 2015
4735 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:13 pm to
Alabama no longer recognizes common law.
Posted by go_tigres
Member since Sep 2013
5494 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:25 pm to
Bro, go buy a lottery ticket...it's your lucky day
Posted by Nawlens Gator
louisiana
Member since Sep 2005
5963 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:31 pm to

If there was a ceremony, you ARE legally married with or without the paper work. If there is a witness to the ceremony, you are married in the eyes of the law.

Posted by piratedude
baton rouge
Member since Oct 2009
2810 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:53 pm to
those facts in La. mean you're married. a ceremony done by a person who you reasonably believe is legally capable of performing a marriage and you reasonably believe he/she married you, means you're married. don't take any chances. get the divorce or a court order declaring you never married.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
21517 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 11:06 pm to
There are people in other countries who hire American morons to file hundreds of fake US tax returns for refunds and don’t get caught for years if ever. The odds of this getting their attention is slim to none.
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