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I was not a child bride, I am just OLD. However, we have kept each other sane and are both still working. Not because we have to, but because we want to. Where Covid has broken many families, it has brought us closer together because we only had each other and our kitty baby. We have a beautiful family; small but close and we count our blessings every day!!!

"As of Jan. 28, the tally of outstanding individual and business returns requiring what the IRS calls “manual processing” — an operation where an employee must take at least one action rather than relying on an automated system to move the case — came to 23.7 million, the taxpayer advocate data shows. The number includes 9.7 million paper returns awaiting processing; 4.1 million that were suspended because of errors with stimulus payments, pandemic relief or other issues; 4.1 million amended returns; and 5.8 million pieces of correspondence awaiting action between the agency and taxpayers to resolve issues before the returns are completed." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/11/irs-returns-backlog/ This is really bad! It's like a slow moving trainwreck headed downhill!

How many of you have noticed an increased number of divorced and/or separated couples this year? I am getting a lot of them along with the usual arguments about who gets to claim the children, etc. My head is spinning and we are only in our second week. On the bright side, I am also seeing several marriages between clients. Let's hope they stay together. I, personally, have 62 years coming up in a few months. Nobody ever said it was going to be easy, but plenty of people said that it would never last. Ha!

All you have to do is to read the Qanon casualties reddit and see the daily carnage caused by those insane conspiracy theories. It's not all divorces (some aren't married). One lady's mom thinks her baby is going to be half human because the pregnant lady got vaccinated. We live in "interesting" times.

That's how I am reading too. I have a family with 6 kids under the age of 17 who will be getting over $10,000 more filing separately.

I never heard of it either. It definitely doesn't work in all areas. Like taking a 529 plan or IRA distribution in Dec of one year to pay tuition in Jan does not alleviate the early distribution penalty.

I haven't noticed an increase. But my office is in an old house converted to offices. There are several attorneys here who do divorce and they are busy, very busy. And have been before covid.

Ha! We’ve only been married for a little over 5 years, but this is the best out of 3. And we only got married for tax reasons, lol!

I have seen both ways. But I wonder how many kids will come as a result of having to stay home?

I noticed it right away. So sad. Covid kept them home and BOOM. Look what happened!

Wow! With 62 years of marriage, you must have been a cradle bride. I've know only one other couple married that long - they made it to 74 years before the groom passed away. Heartiest congratulations! We just celebrated 43 years but have been together for 50 this fall. You are so correct that it isn't always easy but, for many reasons, we keep choosing each other.

Yeah, my youngest daughter and her husband are divorcing. They just slowly drifted apart and stopped talking to each other. Unfortunately, my two grand kids age 2 & 4 have no idea about what's going on.