Is it fraud if you’re legally married? By law, do marriages need to be romantic in nature?
2025-12-16 19:17:22
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thatsewbree :
People get marred for many different reasons. A platonic marriage is no different than a lot of relationships that are active today.
2025-12-16 19:55:16
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Alethea Hansen :
Normalize 👏🏻 platonic 👏🏻 marriages 👏🏻
2025-12-16 20:15:39
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Jeanne Marie :
I would say we’ve fallen in love after trying to do this platonically 😆❤️
2025-12-17 15:23:32
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Rachel :
I’m a lawyer - this isn’t legal advice, but I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t get married. People get married for reasons beyond romantic love all the time (money, insurance, etc). It’s fraud when you’re trying to fool immigration, but that doesn’t seem to be what is happening here. State laws may vary, but I think it’s at least worth considering.
2025-12-16 20:04:08
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🌼Ellie🌼 :
you can get married and it not be romantic. theres no law against that. lavender marriages exist.
2025-12-16 20:03:16
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REBEKAH COMPTON :
Best friends fall in love & get married all the time…. Get creative with a slow burn story & get to the courthouse girl!!!
2025-12-17 21:09:28
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thisashleycrochet :
How many parents “stay together” just for the kids?
2025-12-16 18:36:58
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kit :
but if you (fake) fall in love through the process of raising a child together and THEN decide to get married… who would know?
2025-12-16 19:14:34
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Sunny :
How do you foster someone together when you’re not married? Is there a different procedure?
2025-12-16 20:34:51
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Shanda Belliss :
No clue, but I love what the two of you are doing, so boosting so you can find some answers!!!
2025-12-16 18:29:17
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🪼🪸Ocean Mama🪸🪼 :
You should be able to grant legal power of attorney to the non custodial parent so that both individuals are able to be legally involved in the child’s care and upbringing!
2025-12-16 19:05:51
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Mommy :
Marriage is just something on paper saying you’re paired with someone. I only got married bc it made homeowners insurance cheaper.
2025-12-16 20:02:08
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Thuraia Amira :
I have no legal advice but a question…is it possible for one of you to adopt her after the other? Like when Jolie adopted her first daughter and then Pitt later adopted her too? But they weren’t married at the time so it could legally be similar to your situation.😅Im spit balling here 🤣
2025-12-17 22:17:35
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kat :
would you be able to get a domestic partnership?
2025-12-16 18:41:17
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sarahinacann :
I have also fostered a child with my best friend whom I live with, not prepared to share specifics in a public comment section but happy to chat more directly. I’ve never met anyone else in the same situation.
2025-12-16 21:04:51
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Alexis Winner :
This reminds me of I now pronounce you chuck and Larry 😊😂 but on a serious note good luck!!!
2025-12-18 03:34:47
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Bona Bones :
I don’t think it’s fraud. People have all kinds of marriage arrangements.
2025-12-18 04:40:50
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emkat076 :
There is a family on Instagram who has done this. One of them actually adopted the children (2 separate adoptions) and then they have some type of guardianship for the other.
2025-12-16 22:33:04
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Dee :
Are domestic partnerships a thing in your state? I was planning to do that with my cousin one day for tax and insurance purposes because she’s my life partner (platonic obvi lol)
2025-12-18 07:04:38
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Krisp :
The government shouldn’t be able to dictate your feelings. I feel like if you’re seriously committed to a partnership you should be able to make that legally binding
2025-12-17 16:00:16
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memyselfand2dogs :
I'm am adoption specialist with the state I live in. I wouldn't believe it's fraud for y'all to get married to adopt! seems like it would be in the best interest of the child for the adoption to go forward and if that's what it takes that's not fraud. 🥰
2025-12-17 07:21:27
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hayhaycat10🇮🇱🇱🇧 :
You know original marriage wasn’t meant about love. It was a contract. Let’s bring back contract marriage.
2025-12-17 22:43:37
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jaimesquid :
I don’t think it’s fraud unless you were trying to get a green card. I think you can legally get married for whatever reason you want that’s not to gain something like citizenship.
2025-12-17 01:21:40
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