Contract Marriage

[BBSlm]

What is the name of your state? Wa

What is needed to prosecute for being in a "contract marriage"? And can it be done after honerable discharge?

i was in a "real" marriage but it didn't work out while i was on deployment. After deployment we didn't get any thing finalized for another year because we needed the money to pay bills.

Could this be considered a "contract marriage"? what penalties could i face? could my wife who is a civilian face any thing?

This has not been a problem but we have been on very bad terms over financial disputes and she has threatened to inform the army about it. Is there any thing they can do after a discharge and what proof would they need? just her word?

 

[fozzy2]

What do you mean by "contract marriage"? Is your spouse claiming that the marriage was entered into fraudulently by one/both of you? Or is she claiming that you collected benefits you weren't due (BHA, for example, by not keeping the military informed of status changes)? There is a difference between getting married and subsequently sponging non-earned benefits, and, entering into a 'sham' marriage that at the outset is designed to further some fraud. More specifically, are there any citizenship/immigration ramifications to the marriage? If your ex is claiming that it was a sham 'green card' marriage then be very wary indeed. The government is aggressively persuing those cases (8 U.S.C. 1325), and of all the government agencies you don't want to tangle with, ICE is very high on the list.

 

[navycon]

contract marriages

My situation is a bit different. however, i am not the one in the contract marriage. i am his girlfriend he lives with. i came across some paperwork the other day in the mail. it was something with his taxes back home in new york and it had both their names. i asked him a long time ago if he was married and he said no. i confronted him and he told me it was a contract marriage. we have been together for a year. he told me yesterday he filed for divorce a month before we met a year ago. is there a way to know if this divorce is progress or near finalizing? can this affect us/me in the future if we stay together and get married for real? he did tell me when he filed she would not sign the papers and he did something called abandonment and put an ad in the paper. can the divorce be affective this way?.

 

[pattimelt]

Navycon, start your own thread please.