One of my friends is about to be dumped off their parents’ health insurance and are in the all-american sweet spot of ‘too-poor to afford insurance’, ‘too-rich for medicaid’. We joked about getting married so they could get on my insurance because my union takes care of me pretty good but I’m worried I don’t understand the implications enough to make a good decision.
What does getting married actually mean?
Edit: to more directly answer your question: the investigation would ask questions to people who knew them and try to find ways to argue that it was only for the bennies.
They don’t have to know, the cop-prosecutor just has to convince the jury.
It’s a law mostly used for racist reasons, as is. With the occasional tax fraud case being the instigating incident. Fr though, it’s a total non-issue when both are citizens. They don’t give a shit so long as the paperwork is filled out right.
Every actual risk in this, is our comrade getting financially hurt if the friend stops being a good friend.