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Changes in Marital Status

Submitted by ralaimo@optonli... on 3 August 2008 - 9:27am

How do I change the marital status of a family from partnered to married or vice versa?

Best regards,
Bob K

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Submitted by Lowell Williams on 4 August 2008 - 2:05pm.
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You can't change marital status

Because of a design choice made way back, the profile inherits some of the data from the family demographics. One is marital status.

This caused loads of confusion because when the status got changed it didn't get changed in the profiles (even if you "Save As." So, we decided to change it to make it "fixed" and have the "wizard" to walk through the create a new family entry to make certain everything is correct (and hopefully limit mistakes).

If you want to decide the difference between single/married or partnered, make three families. (Sorry, you cannot save profiles across families).

This may cause similar confusion. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

Is this something people want? Are you setting status on purpose or fixing a mistake?

Submitted by james300@comcast.net on 16 January 2010 - 6:28pm.
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Lowell, I think this would be a very worthwhile capability. Today, many couples are living together before getting married. This program would have greater appeal if marital status could be easily changed. The difficulty in creating a "new" family is the work involved in re-entering all the data. Great chance for error here. Maybe you could find a way to move/copy a profile to the new family rather than try to change family demographics which you indicated previously was fraught with its own problems.
Also the ability to go from "married" to single using the same profile would help all those going through divorce to analyze the impact of various options.

Thanks,
James Mavrogenis

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