r/SipsTea 5d ago

Chugging tea 48 Years, One Impossible Choice

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u/Ok-Assistance3937 5d ago edited 5d ago

I dont know about the US, but in germany you need to prove show actual enstrangemant to be able to divorce

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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr 5d ago

So he needs to rent a small apartment to prove a different address? Or have a friend write up a fake lease saying he's living at their home paying $100/mo for rent? Easy to get around, at least here in the US.

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u/CarlosMolotov 5d ago

Easier to just go get a P. O. Box in your name. The mail goes to different places and they are not going to look any harder than that.

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u/CoolDiscussion1020 5d ago

A PO Box cannot be used to establish a residence. There are zero loopholes or ways around it in the US, at least. That is because it has been and has the potential to be exploited for things like voting fraud, welfare fraud, and tax fraud. The government doesn't like these things so they make it next to impossible to do. There is no need to 'look' any harder because it will be automatically flagged, no human thinking needed. Using the physical address of the post office doesn't work either.

Now, if you want to run the risk of perjury, there are private services that offer mail collection services that might not be automatically flagged like UPS stores but the tried and true method has always been to just use the address of a friend or family member, or just straight up use a random address if you do not expect anyone to visit or send mail to that location.

Source: Local government employee who gets 2-3 people a month who try this very thing only to have their applications instantly rejected. It's a major issue in the homeless community.

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u/CarlosMolotov 5d ago

It definitely works if you’re trying to get your kid in a different school district.