Question about WV residency

[tapeman1]

We're planning on buying some land in WV in a few years. Most likely we'll buy something with a house/cabin already on it. If not, we'll build one. For the next 10 to 15 years it will be a second property held in addition to our house in MD.

Does anyone know if I'll be able to just switch my residency to WV once we buy? Or will I have to wait until we move there full time?

 

[swinokur]

PM Norton. He owns property there.

 

[tapeman1]

Thanks

 

[tapeman1]

OK, No response from Norton. Anyone else?

 

[mdram]

iirc to establish residency you need to spend a certain amount of time there
in md its 1/2 the year for county of residency
id imagine it would be the same for state

 

[swinokur]

PM press1280.

He lives there too.

 

[PapiBarcelona]

It's the same as everywhere else, you can't just get a WV driver's license because you own property there. You're going to have to pretty much live there.

 

[DanJo]

The 50% of time residency rule is correct, but neither MD or WV will be able to prove where you are spending the majority of your time...............maybe your MD house is your second home and the WV house is your primary. Just remember that it is all or nothing. If you want to claim WV residency for 2A purposes you will also need to have a WV drivers license, register your vehicles in WV, vote in WV, and the big one if you have kids...............send your kids to WV schools as you would no longer be a MD resident.

 

[tapeman1]

The 50% of time residency rule is correct, but neither MD or WV will be able to prove where you are spending the majority of your time...............maybe your MD house is your second home and the WV house is your primary. Just remember that it is all or nothing. If you want to claim WV residency for 2A purposes you will also need to have a WV drivers license, register your vehicles in WV, vote in WV, and the big one if you have kids...............send your kids to WV schools as you would no longer be a MD resident.

I can handle that. No kids anyway.

Thanks.

 

[mdram]

you may want to keep a log of when your there just in case

 

[Norton]

Been at the Undisclosed Location for the last 5 days and just getting back to periscope depth.

I don't have the information right at my fingertips, but basically it has to be one state or the other and WV is pretty stringent on on the +50% residency.

Yes, no one can check it, but you have to declare one or the other and decide which has the greater benefit.

Since our place is a "camp", there was no way we could justify it.

 

[tapeman1]

Thanks.

 

[GTOGUNNER]

I think u can establish residence. However changing your domicile is harder. Residencey you can probably get along with a license. Its the tax money they want that is why its harder to change your domicile.

 

[marko]

Your Federal Tax returns are a big indication of where you live.

 

[JPG]

Couldn't you have a split household? You take residency (2A) benefits and wife keeps residency in MD (future school). I knew many people in FLorida that did this.

 

[hvymax]

The West Virginia Law of Relativity is: You can marry your Cousin. But your Sister has got to be commonlaw.

 

[K31]

The West Virginia Law of Relativity is: You can marry your Cousin. But your Cousin has got to be commonlaw.

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[GTOGUNNER]

Couldn't you have a split household? You take residency (2A) benefits and wife keeps residency in MD (future school). I knew many people in FLorida that did this.

Only MSP Superintendent Marcus Brown can do this. The rest of us will be prosecuted.

Brown lives in Bmore and receives a Homestead Credit on his house there.
His wife and kids live in Harrisburg PA, She receives a Homestead Credit there.
Not really legal, but it is Marcus Brown.

 

[gabe72]

I have several customers who claim residencey there and live in md to get in state college tuition,funny thing is most are very liberal but don't beleive they should have to pay.

 

[Kinbote]

The West Virginia Law of Relativity is: You can marry your Cousin. But your Cousin has got to be commonlaw.

http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states

As the map shows, marrying your cousin is illegal in WV, whereas it is not only legal, it's probably encouraged in MD, especially if your cousin is another fellow. You can't do anything normal in this state, like buy a pistol, or beer, or a car, or get rained on, without a huge hassle, bizarre regulations, and/or crazy taxes, but if you have a taste for deviancy, and/or happen to be in the country illegally, then by God, this state is Paradise.