Marital status

The marital status of a person indicates in the civil status, whether it is single, married, divorced, or widowed, or a legal position in relation to a civil partnership exists.

The indication of marital status is usually in civil status documents. However, some family versions can only be circumscribed, so after the abolition of marriage or dissolution of the marriage of a dead Explained, which in reality is still alive, remarriage by the other spouse.

In the West German civil registration, the abbreviations are

• LD ( = single never been married or partnered )
• VH ( married)
• GT ( estranged = in divorce)
• GS ( divorced)
• VW ( widowed)
• LP ( partnered = partnership)
• LA ( entpartnert = partnership repealed)
• LV ( partner bereaved = spouse died )
• FU ( Marital status unknown)

Be used. For who is dating or engaged couples who also live together often, there is no separate symbol, since such a state is not fiscally relevant, but there are socio-legal constructs such as cohabitation, need community, responsibility and Einstehensgemeinschaft etc., the "Wild marriages" include.

The marital status is used in many situations of everyday life as the basis, for example in the classification in an income tax bracket during the authorization check for and the metering of public funds ( federal financial aid, housing allowance, home ownership promotion ), in consideration of claims of the state against the citizen ( as in the military ). Not everyone marital status is relevant for each drop test: widows have the same income bracket as unmarried persons. The latter are referred to in the statistics as a single person.

• Family Law