But owning a home, being married or having children complicates estate planning and increases the risk of foul-ups.
So, too, has being married to a man with whom I have adopted three brown-skinned kids.
"She's a martyr, suffering the trials and tribulations of being married to a filmmaker!"
Being married is no guarantee that you can now just put your life on autopilot.
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Despite being married to a superstar, Linda McCartney's was always said to be her own woman.
So does being married, exercising, eating right, driving safely, and keeping stress levels down.
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"I can't imagine being married to someone who isn't doing the same work, " she said over lunch recently.
My wife lost even more, although I'm not going to give you any numbers (I like being married).
By the 1990s, single filers who lived together without being married enjoyed tax advantages not available to married filers.
Byron distinguishes Jones for being married 63 years and fulfilling the wedding vow.
Husbands, it is often reported, like being married more than their wives do.
Being married is a lifestyle, and raising a family is a lifestyle.
Being married is not an unmixed blessing when it comes to taxation.
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"After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair, " Mr Petraeus said in a statement.
The survey indicates that in 2012 girls are more likely to define success as being confident and independent (56%) rather than being married (21%).
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When taxes come up in discussions of marriage equality, there is usually a focus on the tax advantages of being married, which are admittedly many.
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Often, a couple may decide to have children despite not being married, and this leads to questions about caring for children if the relationship were to dissolve.
Because of the way the NUM handled the strike my brother received no financial support, despite being married with two children and having a mortgage to pay.
Although she admitted that she would have preferred to have more time to enjoy being married before delving into motherhood, she was mindful of the ticking clock.
The legislation will give those who fear being married against their will the right to apply to a civil court for a Forced Marriage Protection Order (FMPO).
As well as being married to the veteran Labour MP Tony Benn she was mother to another, Hilary Benn, elected for Leeds Central in a by-election last year.
When the four mismatched lovers tromp off to the woods to avoid being married off to the wrong people, they wander straight into a vast, dazzling fairy kingdom.
"There are real costs to not being married that take away our disposable income, " Johnson says, but she stresses that first and foremost is the argument of basic fairness.
Politicians, clergy and others have been arguing about the rights and obligations which should apply in England and Wales to cohabitants - people who live together without being married.
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He got some piece of paper from a photographer's booth in Mexico that seemed to make it official, though afterwards he vaguely remembered being married already with two children.
Many would significantly benefit financially from not being married.
Ms Schofield said despite being married for five years they had never been on a honeymoon, so a holiday would be one of the priorities, along with new cars and a new caravan.
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 situation is this: the IRS, citing the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has refused to treat same sex married couples as being married for tax purposes, including the filing of joint income tax returns.
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