Maybe a stupid question, but...

[prosodic]

When you become a legal residence of one state, how do you lose your legal residence status in another? Lance and I were discussing this the other day. He's always been a legal resident of Minnesota, and the same goes for me of Ohio. But now that we're buying property in Washington state, we'll be legal residents there.

Of course, we'll be registering to vote in Kent, but not everyone who relocates is a registered voter. And we'll eventually be getting Washington drivers' licenses too, and certainly our cars will have Washington plates. And we'll both be employed in Washington.

However, I don't think most of these things will alert either Ohio or Minnesota to the fact that we aren't legal residents there anymore (although I would think that registering to vote should do it, but I'm not sure about this).

So, what say you, Live Journal people? I know many of you have relocated. What are we supposed to do, if anything?

Comments

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

I know I'll get Ohio tax forms for 2007, but since we're moving into our house 2 weeks before the new year, I don't want to be on record as a legal resident of Ohio at all in 2008. That's mainly why I was asking.

And the education aspect is important too. At the moment, I still plan to go back to grad school, and I want to be considered a state resident.

[dimwit68.livejournal.com]

Grad school ? With all the job applications I thought that had faded into the background.

It sounds as difficult for you to move to another state as it is for me to move to another country!

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

I was going to work full-time and do grad school on the side...many MLIS programs are designed for working professionals. So it wouldn't be a full-time grad school thing like last time.

Besides, I have to fund it somehow. :P

[mysirensong.livejournal.com]

Since I've moved out of, back into and out of Ohio these last few years I may be able to assure you that you won't get tax forms once you are working in Washington and definitely NOT working in Ohio. (And even if you do, just by virtue of the fact that they may still send them thinking that you're a resident and just stationed elsewhere temporarily, the state tax department is AMAZINGLY helpful, which I found quite surprising! I had a problem just recently with NC asking for money from 2002 -- when I didn't make any money in NC, all of it was in OH, and I had to call OH and ask for them to send proof of that to NC - wow! They were so nice and got me what I needed so quickly. So, for tax purposes you may even want to look them up online and make a pre-emptive phone call at the beginning of 2008 if you'd feel better about it that way. Holy crap this has been a long parenthetical phrase!)

AWESOME that WA doesn't have state tax. NC doesn't have local taxes and I thought *that* was cool. :-)