You probably should just have joint accounts with your kids and let them bleed the account down over a few years for their day to day expenses and they bank their salary somewhere else if we are not talking about a huge sum. Since it is an illegal conveyance, try to hide it somewhat. I haven't really even looked at it but I bet you could do something with a trust but you still need some time between anything you do and the bankruptcy that you have to claim for medicaid.
That is the function of cash and why the IRS wants to tighten the rules on how much you can use without reporting it. The laws meant to find drug dealers do a wonderful job of finding people trying to hide wealth.
I suppose, just remember to wash the hose between uses.
It was an example that disproves the idea that everyone ends up with a worthless degree. There are still some good opportunities out there for people who are willing to look for them and work for them.
Only if the civil union is functionally identical to marriage under the law. If civil unions had been a "thing" when we got married, we probably wouldn't have rounded up a random minister to preside over the ceremony.
Cindy Hamilton
Didn't Donald J. pay for one of his Scotland properties in cold hard cash ? John T.
About 45 years ago when the wife and I got married it was at an office in a government building. Some girl about 30 years old did it. I think she was an assiant justice of the peace, but could be wrong. It was in South Carolina and we lived in North Carolina at the time.
No person of God was present . Just the 3 of us.
We wanted our friends and family present. Mostly for the party. The wedding itself was a 10-minute interlude during a pig roast.
Cindy Hamilton
The ceremony has nothing to do with the legal marriage permit here. You can get married at a gas station if they have a notary working there.
Personally I think all government involvement should stop at the contract stage. If you sign that civil union contract you get whatever benefits we give "married people" and that could be any two or more adults willing to sign that contract.
Marriage is a religious/spiritual thing that the government has no business even being involved in. Look at it as a 1st amendment thing. If you can't have a creche in the park, why should the government be involved in a religious ceremony?
I doubt he took them a suitcase full of greenbacks. It was probably a wire transfer. That was how the last 2 properties I dealt with were handled in a "cash" deal. (last month). I paid for this house with a personal check but that was 1984.
Our marriage permit was notarized by a lady in the office at the Hawks Cay resort on Duck Key in the Florida Keys. We picked it up at the clerk's office in Marathon. It still wasn't official until it got sent back to the court recorder. It was really a non issue for us. Judy, our daughter and the kid down the street were already signed up with IBM as dependents.
We were at the beach with Sonny's BBQ and a keg of beer.
Atheists marry. Marriage is not entirely a religious/spiritual thing. My atheist husband and I wanted to get married at a particular location, and the only person we could find who would go out there was a minister. None of the civil officials would stir from their chambers.
Cindy Hamilton
Maybe Michigan is just a backward state. The person who notarizes your permit here doesn't need to be at the wedding. The fat guy in my wedding pictures was just a friend of a friend with no credentials at all but he looked OK to all the parents and that was the point. It was just a show.
We got married in a church, but same thing. The legal aspects were handled by the city. I have two marriage certificates. One useless from the church that misspelled our name and the one from the city that is accepted as legal document.
In this state the marriage license is the legal document. A friend who is an ordained minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has performed marriage ceremonies.
I'm Catholic but married in wife's Greek Orthodox church. Moving here when our first son was born we went to the Catholic church to arrange his baptism and when the priest found where we were married hauled us back into a chapel and remarried us in the Catholic church.
We also attended the wedding of a Jewish friends' son in a Catholic church. They were married in front of the alter but not at the alter as essentially a civil ceremony. The priest, half crocked, the night before at the rehearsal dinner told me that she could divorce the "heathen" and remarry in the Church if she wanted.
In Florida it is a legal document. A license issued by the state, signed by both parties in front of a notary, notarized and filed with the clerk of court, right next to your property deed. Everything else is just a show.
There's no notary involved here.
A legal marriage requires two witnesses and an officiant. The officiant should be an ordained minister, magistrate (a civil officer with power to administer and enforce law -- Justice of the Peace), mayor of a Michigan city or a judge.
The amount of ceremony that the officiant requires to consider the couple "joined in marriage" is unspecified.
Cindy Hamilton
I guess Florida just got more honest about what it really was. A simple contract.
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