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Makes me think about a situation I ran into, that might be a warning for someone else. I was married many years ago, at age 18, we eloped and got married secretly. Had my marriage certificate in a lock box at home when the house burned down. I got new copies of our birth certificates, but did not even think about the marriage certificate. Well, when I moved out to CA, I had to get a CA driver's lic, and they wanted to see proof of who I was, birth certificate AND marriage lic. Because of how we got married, I was not even sure in which county we got married, and AR records are not on-line for most counties, so I had a terrible time getting proof of my legal name, even after 50 yrs of marriage. I ended up with a driver's lic in my maiden name for 5 months! I can just imagine the problems that could have caused me. So, a word of advice, if you don't already have certified copies of ALL your legal identity documents, get them now, before you need them.

Maybe we could get congress to do away with filing status - everyone files their own return based on their own income with no dependent exemptions or special tax rates according to filing status. If you own assets such as rental property or stocks/bank accounts jointly, you must each report 1/2 of the income. Then it won't matter whether you are married or to whom. Never happen.

Didn't even notice! Although, I'm "Rita" to that group. First names for all, because we're all in it together, teens and adults. Cafeteria ladies will make (we serve and clean up, dishes, etc.) breakfasts and dinner beginning Sunday night. We make PB&J sandwiches for our crew and our family (the home we'll work on all week) for lunch. It's great getting the kids out of pricey Fairfield County, CT; they come back year after year and even return as college students and into adulthood. Our future is just fine in the hands of these ASP teens! I will accept all warm thoughts and prayers for our safe travel, for our work, and for the families we help. Thank you, Elrod and all.

Bless you for serving others. Unique....Lion is gonna shop at ..Food Lion.Yummy..

We'll be making homes warmer, safer, and drier. My co-leader is a Purdue student just returning from a semester in Australia, so haven't met him yet !! We have five great teens in our crew. Did an enormous amount of packing tonight, as well as working with hubby to pack since it's his first ASP trip. Friday we pick up rental vans and load them, kids bringing their tools, etc. by the church at 6:30 p.m. Then it's 7 a.m. Saturday for a convocation and departure. We'll eat our brown bag lunches at an I-95 rest stop; dinner will be KFC in a state park in VA followed by our final orientation, work crew meetings, and sleeping on the floor of three churches to fit all 185 of us. Sunday is devotions in the parking lot, a stop at Food Lion to buy breakfast foods, and complete our drive to TN. Next week we'll work on a family's home. This is my fourth trip. My stepdaughter did it for a decade and invited me. http://www.jesseleeasp.org/

Oh, did people like the scolding of Soup Nazi better? I was going for a softer image. Maybe I should have gone with a picture of one of my roses, you know, with the prickly thorns on the stem.

I agree with MDEA - it is usually married people telling me they are single I have a problem with but I don't know how to get someone to prove a negative. If we originally had them as married, I could ask to see their divorce papers but we had one gentleman that I did his return for 10 years filing him as single, his previous preparer had filed him as single on the return that I saw when we started with him, and then he came in and asked me to notarized some paperwork for another state because he was getting divorced. To me that is a much bigger problem.