Am I required to carry my estranged husband on my health insurance?
by admin ~ February 26th, 2010 . Filed under: Marriage & Divorce .
My husband and I are separated. He is engaged. When he left, he took all of our joint property, emptied our joint bank account, and took his name off of all our utilities, leaving me with all of the debt. My employer provided insurance is currently in open enrollment. Can I drop him from my policy? He works, and makes more money than I do. I would continue to cover his child (from a previous relationship) until the divorce. I recently found out from his fiance’ that he plans on delaying our divorce as long as possible, to maintain my insurance, and that the insurance was the only reason he married me in the first place. The increase in premium to keep him on my insurance is 200 a month. Also, I have a very high deductible. $5,000. I have a health savings account through my employer. Can he access that?
I’m not being petty. I’m doing what is best for me, and my two children (also from a previous relationship). I make half as much money as he does, and he stuck me with all of the household bills, as well as some of his medical bills from early this year. (I’ve since given those creditors his address, so they can go after him for that.) I don’t think I should have to bear all the financial weight for this relationship, when I was being used… I also plan to bring this up, as fraud, in our divorce.
We were only married for 8 months, if that has anything to do with it… and he had no medicaid before that, and he found out he made too much money, and was being dropped from medicaid.
He had no insurance… not no medicaid. He was on medicaid when we married. That was a typo.
Omega Nellis
February 28th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
You don’t have to keep him on. You wouldn’t if you were together, so you don’t if you are apart.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:01 am
Unless ordered by a judge, no.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:12 pm
The divorce is final.
March 5th, 2010 at 12:56 am
The law requiring anyone to provide health insurance for divorce he stuck you need to provide health insurance for half of them legally.
March 5th, 2010 at 9:05 am
The sooner the better.
March 7th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
The childs mother carrying her own kid and if you will be stuck covering him off no you will be stuck covering him even longer remove him off no you are in open enrollment take him off take him even longer remove him off no you wait until your enrollment take him immediately what *******.
The childs mother carrying her own kid and if you do not have to carry him even longer remove him off take him or his child why.
The childs mother carrying her own kid and if you do not have to carry him or his child why isnt.