Can a couple be still legally married if they don't live together?

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vb3d
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If me and my wife decided to start living apart each on their own house, can we still be legally married?

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  • [Deleted User]
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    vb3d wrote: »
    If me and my wife decided to start living apart each on their own house, can we still be legally married?

    Of course, if you're married you're married
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    The only way to stop being married is to get an actual divorce.
  • MovingForwards
    MovingForwards Posts: 16,956 Forumite
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    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=6003330

    Trying to find loopholes still?
    Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear it in 2026.
  • 74jax
    74jax Posts: 7,929 Forumite
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    edited 19 May 2019 at 9:55AM
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    MovingForwards wrote: »
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=6003330

    Trying to find loopholes still?

    Post 5 on the above link is....... I'm praying a wind up surely.....
    Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....
  • frugalmacdugal
    frugalmacdugal Posts: 10,077 Forumite
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    Hi,


    PasturesNew wrote: »
    The only way to stop being married is to get an actual divorce.


    or your partner dies, just go for the cheapest option.
  • DigForVictory
    DigForVictory Posts: 11,910 Forumite
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    Yes.
    Have a look at that marriage certificate thingummy - it doesn't require you to share an address.

    I know the old common law marriage myths remain, despite MSE trying to educate people away from fairy tales (like "my family will repay my loan") but really OP, the only place you won't be married is in the grave or on the far side of the divorce process.

    Pick one & get on with it.
  • Keep_pedalling
    Keep_pedalling Posts: 16,687 Forumite
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    MovingForwards wrote: »
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=6003330

    Trying to find loopholes still?

    I would have thought the cost of running a second home would far outweigh the (unlikely) retention of any benefits, unless the second home was a shed down the bottom of the garden:rotfl:
  • kingfisherblue
    kingfisherblue Posts: 9,203 Forumite
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    vb3d wrote: »
    If me and my wife decided to start living apart each on their own house, can we still be legally married?


    Not only can you still be legally married, you will be legally married, unless you divorce.
  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,622 Forumite
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    Yes you will still be legally married but there's a financial snag in that I think if you both live in separate owned (rather than rented) properties and one of them is subsequently sold you will have to pay capital gains tax at around 30% of any profit made made, over and above your capital gains tax allowance which I think is currently around £11,000.
    You are only allowed to sell one marital nominated primary residence tax free.
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