In most places, a marriage is valid if the license was properly filed and the parties held themselves out as being married, even when the only qualification of the officiant was an Internet certificate of ordination.

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The return must be filed (meaning signed, properly addressed and postmarked) no later than Tuesday, April 17, 2012.

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Dugard, now 30, and her daughters, aged 15 and 12, filed claims against the state earlier this year for psychological, physical and emotional damages for failing to properly monitor her accused kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender on parole and the alleged father of her children.

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She has limited claims against Countrywide filed by investors who she felt could not properly show they had been injured and whose claims she deemed exceeded the statute of limitations.

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We believe that the District Court did not properly address our contentions in its decision to dismiss the case and we have filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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