Q: My boyfriend wants that i claim his money from his Alaska intern. bank Account as his wife. I don't know if i should.
He lives in the US now, i'm still in germany, but wanna move to him next year. I didn't know about that Account. Once he told me that his bank Account is frozen till his ex, got her money out. He lived in germany for some years, thats were we met and he got divorced. Later he want to send me the mailadress, where i should write. He told me that the bank would already know about me.
A:
The applicable law may vary from state to state, but in most, if you present yourself, or yourselves, as man and wife, you may well become that, a "common law marriage". Once married, the only way to get unmarried is divorce, and that means a judge, and probably lawyers, need to be involved.
More importantly, your bankruptcy schedules and statement of affairs, listing all your assets and debts, are signed under penalty of perjury. The criminal penalty for perjury is $50,000/per incident and five years in prison. There may be other applicable criminal statutes to your joint plan, e.g., bankruptcy fraud, etc., that if proven may well be sufficient to deny your bankruptcy discharge.
You don't say where/what state you'd be relocating to. I suggest you chat with a lawyer in that state before you take another step. Ex-wives often take a scorch-the-earth approach to their ex's behavior.
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