[Carling]

Actually, if you divorce now you can still collect the SS of your deceased ex-spouse. My mother-in-law, a big liberal, does this. She also live with a man for the past twenty years and won't marry him because he doesn't have the money her ex-husband does.

It's a little bit sad, but she treats me great so I deal with it.

[Safetgiver]

Actually, if you divorce now you can still collect the SS of your deceased ex-spouse....Go you one better. I know a guy who died two years ago at 92. He divorced his first wife in the 1960's. When he retired he was again married. His first wife got $545 a month from his SS. His new wife got $800 a month from his SS. When he died, the first wife called her son, a buddy of mine, and proudly told him she was now receiving 1300+ a month. The second wife was also bragging about the "raise" she got. How could this system be so out of whack???