I just saw someone else post asking why someone would want to get married, so I’m curious to see the opposite. Within the U.S., you can pretty much marry whoever you want as long as they are of age, and many legal benefits come with that. I personally know a couple who have been together for 20 years, and we live in a state that doesn’t recognize common-law marriage, so they are now considering it. Are there other situations where it simply makes sense to not get married?
We have 2 kids. All property is in my name alone. I am the only one working.
This situation works out fine, as 1 since I file taxes as head of household, and she files single, we never end up owing money come tax time. If we were married, we’d have a slight tax benefit, but not really much. Also since I technically make enough money to be in the bottom of the bracket that doesn’t qualify for state and federal benefits for the kids. So if we got married our kids would lose state insurance, which is good and covers everything, and instead i’d have to up my work insurance to cover my whole family, which is bad, barely covers anything, and is expensive.
The benefits of marriage are nothing, and the negatives of it are very damaging. We are barely scraping by as we are, so no marriage.