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What makes you think Obama Sr and Stanley Anne ever shared property or a tax return? What property? What year did either or both file income tax?

I don't. The point is that the issue of whether someone is "married" or not isn't a simple straight over tackle legal question. Particularly in the modern world.

In most jurisdictions, her verification of the complaint under oath stating that she was married to him and other statements that she was married and the fact that she blew several grand hiring a lawyer to divorce him is probably enough to make them "married" for many purposes; among them those listed. Not that they ever did any of them but if the divorce involved an argument over whether they jointly owned a home or could file a joint tax return or whatever, the legal result would be to treat them as married.

There is a citizenship legal issue in the case involving whether or not they were married. I think these kinds of considerations resolve it.

I wasn't sure whether Polerik was making a point with the portion of my quote he highlighted so I thought I should clarify it.

My own view is that the absence of a paper record of a marriage in Hawaii could well be resolved by a records search in Kenya which would also support my view about the course of events that left Stanley Ann in Kenya when Barack was born.

Although a lot of the native marriages were not documented in the same fashion as we would expect in the US, this one might well have been documented with the British Civil Authorities given who the groom was.