<prompt> Human: I recently filed my 2014 taxes as a single individual, and am now considering amending my taxes as either married filing separately or married filing jointly due to living with my girlfriend for a little over a year and a half now. Shes also 3 months pregnant with my child.We live in the state of Utah, and have been splitting all our bills 5050 although we do not share any kind of financial accounts. Ive also been paying monthly on her to be wedding bands and diamond for over a year.She also has a 9 year old daughter that stays with us 50 as she shares dual custody with her ex-husband. Shes the custodial parent.She hasnt filed her taxes yet.Do we qualify for filing as married due to common law marriage practices in Utah?Let me know if I can provide any further information.Assistant: Utah does not have common law marriage; instead, you may petition the court to recognize your relationship as a marriage even though you never had a marriage ceremony. Since technically you cannot have a common law marriage in Utah you can not file as married. In your time frame only 9 states and DC reginize common law marriages Nine states and the District of Columbia recognize these marriages, including Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Rhode Island and Colorado.Human: So simply filing as married doesnt state that we consider ourselves to be married to each other? Weve considered ourselves married since last year, we just havent gone through the traditional channels yet.  <response>: If it were this easy, there would have been no need for a huge movement for same-sex marriage equality. 