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Divorce My Disabled Husband For Our Kids?

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Location: Ohio, USA, 30F— Let me just start by saying I don’t want to leave my disabled husband, just want to know if I can divorce him on paper.

My husband is recently loosing his battle with his Crohn’s disease. He has lost two jobs in the last year so he/we decided it’s finally time to come to terms with his illness and file for disability. We have a 6 year old bio child and a 10 month old we have been fostering that we are set to adopt legally in October.

Here is our problem. My job is almost impossible to afford the insurance. It’s $2,012/ month. To which our HR just says “yeah people have been complaining about that for years. It is kinda pricey”. It’s almost my entire income, and I can’t quit this job because it’s a “unicorn” job. I work at an express care run out of a local school so I get to work with kids at school all day. It’s a dream and I love it so much, I’d give the world to keep it. Once my husband is on disability, he gets state insurance for him and any dependents he has. I am having to work a second full time job just to afford insurance for me and the kids and I can’t keep working like this. I’m missing everything, I’m so exhausted but I, myself, do not qualify for state insurance because I make too much money.

My husband and I were thinking. If we got a “divorce”, he could claim the kids and have them in his insurance. And I’ll have my own, which is VERY affordable.

I have heard of disabled people not getting married because they loose benefits and they still love together and have kids and have their whole life but without a stupid piece of paper, and that’s totally legal. But his illness started to worsen after we got married, so, now we just want to undo it so we can afford to live.

Am I legally allowed to divorce my husband for this reason or is this considered some type of crime? Idk what to do.

submitted by /u/JacquelineHyde1994
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