# If You're Married and Don't Know it, Raise Your Hand

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-married-and-dont-know-it-raise-your-hand/640974>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 14, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-married-and-dont-know-it-raise-your-hand/640974 "2012-11-14T12:32:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-married-and-dont-know-it-raise-your-hand/640974/21 "2012-11-16T19:09:08Z")

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::raises hand::

But that’s more because the other party sat on the final divorce paperwork & didn’t file it with the court as they were supposed to.  
This raises my tab to putting my lawer’s kid thru grad school. :mad:

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**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-married-and-dont-know-it-raise-your-hand/640974/22 "2012-11-16T20:04:30Z")

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Apparently I am; when I flew to Germany last year the ticket said ‘Mrs [firstname][lastname]’ on it.

I must really have been drunk, I didn’t think I’d been to the US at all (barring 4 hours in an airport as a kid), let alone Vegas, alternatively, here you have to wait 15 days between getting a license and the ceremony, so frankly I’m suprised I lived.

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