This is the start of studying bigamy laws. We don't talk about them very often.
Let's say I want to marry a few more wives. I have a wife in Colorado on paper. Who is to stop me from marrying another wife in Wyoming, then taking a wife in Montana, and having them all on paper?
I'm on a very long roadtrip right now and it just has me thinking how logical it would be to have my wife from Colorado, and my wife from Wyoming, and my wife from Montana. It seems like it would be very easy.
So then we get to the taxes. Basically my first wife and I would stay filed as married filing jointly. Then each other wife files as married filing separately. Or, maybe I too file that way.
My understanding is that the bigamy laws were primarily motivated for income tax concerns. Feel free to correct me on that, I can obviously see all the reasons that the adversary wants real families broken up.
If there is no taxation crime or trickery, who cares if I have three marriage certificates in different states? Who prosecutes me then? Am I to believe that the feds are going to come knocking because I am a paper bigamist?
Let me know your experiences or knowledge on this topic.
Let's say I want to marry a few more wives. I have a wife in Colorado on paper. Who is to stop me from marrying another wife in Wyoming, then taking a wife in Montana, and having them all on paper?
I'm on a very long roadtrip right now and it just has me thinking how logical it would be to have my wife from Colorado, and my wife from Wyoming, and my wife from Montana. It seems like it would be very easy.
So then we get to the taxes. Basically my first wife and I would stay filed as married filing jointly. Then each other wife files as married filing separately. Or, maybe I too file that way.
My understanding is that the bigamy laws were primarily motivated for income tax concerns. Feel free to correct me on that, I can obviously see all the reasons that the adversary wants real families broken up.
If there is no taxation crime or trickery, who cares if I have three marriage certificates in different states? Who prosecutes me then? Am I to believe that the feds are going to come knocking because I am a paper bigamist?
Let me know your experiences or knowledge on this topic.
