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legal separation means you’re not
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divorced it basically means that you’re
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uh engaging in a contractual agreement
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and that contractual agreement is going
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to be used as a basis for a divorce
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later on but it’s a useful tool in some
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cases where you have a moneyed spouse
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and a non-money spouse you have two
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people who are on different footings
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economically and therefore health
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insurance becomes a major cost so if you
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want to save on the health insurance
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cost and you want to give the other
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person some time to rehabilitate
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themselves and to build up their income
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so what you do is is you enter into a
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separation agreement that will allow
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them to have health insurance under the
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family plan which avoids an additional
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cost for the money spouse and it gives
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the non-money spouse sometimes to build
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up their credit build up their ability
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to become self-supporting