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Gentlemen,

It occurred to me that there is some critical information for your married guys and those who may become married in the future or you future corporate employees in our group. Background checks can occur.

If you are ever involved in a domestic relations dispute the attorney for your spouse/significant other may subpoena your records. They can do this even if you have a privacy agreement and so on. If you read the fine print you will find this is true.

Make excuses you can verify for those stamps in your passport and your airline reservation records. (or drive) LOL. You do like to fish do you not? Avoid Hotel Del Rey reservations in your real name. I do not know how but do it. One possibility is to establish a corporation and get a credit card or debit card in the corporate name. Georgia is cheaper than Nevada or California for incorporation. A LLC is easier to incorporate than a regular corporation. It can be a do it yourself deal, under $100, in GA. Go to the Sec of State of GA website for more info.

Buy a Virgin Mobile prepaid phone for your phone calls to CR.
Use a prepaid phone card (cash) to pay for the calls using a 800 number.

Never use your real name in CR.

Establish a yahoo or hotmail e-mail address, like JenniferinSantaRosa@yahoo.com
When you register for anything on line change your gender, age, racial background and so on. I am usually a 70 year old unemployed Chinese housewife from California. Nobody is interested in me. Not even salespeople.

As a personal note, I am single and my ex has died so alimony is not an issue. But if I remarried, the new spouse would trace my history if and when a divorce attorney became involved. You never know.

"I am not paranoid just because people are watching me". LOL.

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Regarding using a corporation for a credit card:

I don't know exactly how this would be done. I've had a corporation for several years, and while it has the corporate name printed on the card, the embossed name is your own, as is the sig. panel on the back.

The reason for this is that when you establish a corp., Visa and MC don't have any reason to extend credit to an entity without a track record. (Although I could probably get one, now).

You actually can get a corporate debit card, with just the company name which is one way to go....

You also can get prepaid V/MC debit cards in a company name.

Corporate cards without a name embossed other than the company, usually have to prove a substantial Corporate track record, D&B report etc... but they they can be obtained.

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My experience has been that everywhere you use a credit card, they ask for your signature and I.D.

Is this different if you use a debit card?

Forming a corporation to cover your tracks!?!?!? If that is the lengths one has to go to, then I'm glad I'm not married and probably never will. Personally, I think you're WAAAYYY too paranoid.

About the only thing you said that makes any small amount of sense to me is your concern about having a stay at the HDR on your resume. However, unless you charge your stay I don't see how any background check short of the type that CIA employees undergo is going to turn that up. What are they gonna do? Subpoena the HDR guest register? Or hunt through all the hotels in SJ to find out which one you stayed at? The simplest thing to do is to just either pay cash or better yet stay somewhere else with a less sordid reputation. Using an assumed name has absolutely zero impact if you charge your stay (which I prefer to do so I do not have to bring as much cash) and if you pay cash you don't really have to worry about a background search going as far as a hotel register outside of US jurisdiction. I'm fairly certain the HDR doesn't just voluntarily give up guest information to any Tom, Dick or Harry PI that calls from the US and even with a disclosure agreement, how will they know you stayed there unless you tell them.

Most background checks done by any employers goes little beyond a basic credit check, driving records and criminal background check. As for future potential spouses, very few are going to even do as extensive search as the employers and anyone that does a "CIA/FBI" level background check ... well lets just say you should only be so lucky you find out she has that level of mistrust and suspiciousness before you get hitched so you can cancel your wedding plans. Besides, what difference does it make what you did before you met? Does she really think you were a monk before you both met? Is there really anyway for her to tell you did anything more than go fishing in CR from all but the most intrusive (not to mention expensive) background checks.

The same applies to only slightly lesser degree to any investigations done during a divorce. She may have suspicions as to whether you really were just fishing in CR, but unless you're completely careless (like charging your MP visits) there is little that a PI is going to be able to turn up that your soon-to-be ex will be able to hang you on in court. I think most married guys that go to CR are smart enough to cover their tracks, by paying cash where appropriate. What no receipts for the fishing charter? I paid cash. Where did all the cash go? Do you have any idea how much a day on a fishing charter costs? Its usually much cheaper to spend a day in the Gulch. You don't even have to explain how you spent all that money.

In summary, there's little one has to be paranoid about when it comes to after the fact background checks. If you really want to be paranoid a much more valid (and likely) concern is whether your wife's PI has followed you down to CR and is snapping candid photos of you in action. In that case it makes little difference whether you've paid cash or used fake names.

Uh oh!

I am in the process of an extremely acrimonious divorce. Michigan is a no fault state so how can my activities in CR be an issue in the divorce? I was married to a Russian and it was a short term (3 year marriage) with no significant appreciation of assets. Premarital assets are excluded.

Are you saying her attroney can depose me re my activities in CR and they could become a factor in the divorce settlement?

More info please.

Rocco

Correct me if I am wrong, I am not an attorney, although I do work with them a lot....

I would talk to an attorney on your nect trip to CR and set up a corporation...even if dormant...If it is brought up, you were considering purchasing investment proiperty down there, but have not followed through....That would be my excuse....

CG

If they found out you are a crt member then the game is up.

Thats why all are billings are GENERIC NO MENTION OF CRT in anyway shape or form, your secrets are safe here with ME, I guarantee THAT!

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Unless of course HER ATTORNEY is a CRT board member. Oh..the paranoia.

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If you are currently single and are a member of CRT and go to CR and decide to get married, forget about the background check, I think you should go straight to the mental hospital.

I have found that the best and only way is to pay cash. No credit cards to divulge during legal discovery. One would theoretically be obligated to divulge the corp credit card. For that matter all your purchases should be in cash if you anticpate going thru a divorce. Just take afew grand out of the bank each month and then your lifestyle is not tracable.

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If it floats, flies or fucks, rent it, dont buy it.

Not traceable???????????????? Her attorney must be a dumb shit

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makes me wonder why one is getting married in the 1st place ????


Thank the Gods that I am 30 and un-wed !!!!!!!!!!!

Guys:

I just finished my divorce. Check the State Laws but in the state of PA it doesn't mean thing in the settlement if either side cheated. You or your ex could have had 10 affairs or trips to CR, there is a formula, period doesn't matter who wants out or who did what. I know in VA it does make a difference if you have an affair in the state but trips to CR certainly don't matter in court. They are unproven accusations and proof is what judges require. You guys been talking to to many lawyers I think. Remember if a lawyers lips are moving he is telling a lie. If there are any lawyers on the board nothing personal so save any nasty PM's