Wedding Official Business
Wedding Official Business
By: Yehiel Carter
Marriage is many things. They’re fun, expensive and require a lot of planning, but a wedding is also first a legal matter. And as such, there are steps the couple must preform so that the union is recognizable in the eyes of the law. They’ll need a wedding license, but before that, the bride must make an important decision ? to except her future husband’s surname or continue to use her maiden name.
You’d think that a name was just a name and changing it wouldn’t be such a big deal, but it really is. During previous generations whether or not a woman changed her last name was something that wasn’t given a second thought. The woman took her husband’s name and that was that. But recently, women have challenged this tradition. There is no law that says a woman’s last name must change in marriage, so really this decision is a matter of personal choice.
For those women who go a head and change their last names, the process to change isn’t hard, but it can take time. Besides making the changes with the federal Social Security Administration, which thats where it all begins, a woman must also change the name on all her certificates, her credit card accounts, her bank and all financial/insurance related documents, utilities bills, property deeds, clubs at which she is part of and at her work ? not only for Human Resource and erning tax purposes, but so that a new email address and new business info can be created.
And while you’re going through the process of changing your name, you might want to consider changing your address, too. You’ve just got to double-check the timing. If it dont turn out right, you can take a change of address kit easily enough and complete this when you come back from the honeymoon. It’s not really necessary to begin the process of changing your name until about 2 weeks before your wedding, so do whatever makes most sense.
One other aspect of the name change process that requires careful timing is planning your honeymoon. You might be better off making your reservations using your maiden name if you won’t have official identification (or an updated passport) with your new name ready before you leave. You don’t have to experience any unnecessary delays.
When dealing with the marriage license, be sure to check the requirements in your state of residence ahead of time. Each state will vary with some states requiring one or more witnesses and others requiring blood tests and/or physical exams, and others requiring something else such as a waiting period. Regardless of the state, you are going to pay for a marriage license. Costs will range from a low of $25 to a high of $100 or more.
Wedding Official Business
Wedding Official BusinessBy: Yehiel Carter
Marriage is many things. They're fun, expensive and require a lot of planning, but a wedding is also first...
Wedding Official Business
Wedding Official BusinessBy: Yehiel Carter
Marriage is many things. They're fun, expensive and require a lot of planning, but a wedding is also first...
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Being a Parent… Opportunities to Turn A Bad Experience Into a Good Experience
Being a Parent… Opportunities to Turn A Bad Experience Into a Good Experience
By: Bill Platt
The biggest challenge I have had to face in my own life is that of being a good parent. My kids make it hard for me to stay true to the rules of good parenting… They break everything I own… Repeatedly…
Fortunately, I do have the presence of mind to realize that as toddlers and young children, they really do not intend to break things… Instead, they are trying to get a grasp on how the world around them works.
Yep, the lego floats. I wonder what it will do if I flush it??
“Daddy! The toilet is stopped up.”
So, Daddy pulls the toilet up, tries to backfeed a snake, and finally gives up. Daddy had to buy a new toilet, because he could not loose the lego stuck in its plumbing.
Of course, the kiddies never told me what they flushed. All I knew is that I could not get it out.
So, I turned it into a learning experience for my boys.
I carried the toilet to the street, and took the boys with me. I took my trusty hammer and broke the plumbing portion of the toilet to see what kind of blockage I had tried to overcome. Upon finding a lego in the plumbing, I instructed the boys that the reason they could not use their toilet is because their lego got stuck.
We have been working with the kids to teach them an understanding of the value of money. The six year old is starting to get it, but the boy who just turned four is still a bit unconcerned about such things.
I explained to the boys that we would have to spend money to buy a new toilet. And, because that requires money to be spent, I would not be able to afford to take them bowling as promised. I could have afforded to do so, but they needed to learn a lesson.
Once they calmed from losing their bowling privileges, we took a bad and made it fun.
Each boy got the opportunity to use the hammer on the remains of our toilet. The trash guys would not have picked up the toilet, because it was a big object. So, I killed two birds with one stone, so to speak.
Each boy got to take turns breaking the toilet into smaller pieces. They had a blast.
Then, we took the chance to teach them the basics of basketball. We needed the small chunks of porcelain in the trash barrel, so we set the barrel nearby and tossed bits of the remains of the toilet into the trash can, as if we were playing basketball.
It was an awesome experience overall, and my kids got to learn a few things, and try a few new things along the way.
And yes, we did wash our hands after our game of basketball.
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