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B-212900 1 (1983-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlke0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . ,4.>OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-212900 DATE: November 15, 1983 MATTER OF: Susan L. Marsh DIGEST: Employee is not entitled to travel expenses for an individual claimed to be her spouse by common-law marriage incident to her transfer from Oregon to Montana since no state in which they resided recognized such marriage. Even if common-law marriaqe arose in Montana at some point after she arrived, payment for travel of her claimed spouse would not be allowed, since when the travel was performed no marriage existed. Further, under Montana law it is doubtful that such a marriaqe could be shown for the purpose of paying temporary lodqinq expenses. We hold that Ms. Susan L. Marsh, an employee of the Forest Service, is not entitled to travel expenses for a spouse, since she has not demonstrated that she was legally married at the time she transferred to her new duty station. Ms. Marsh states that sometime during October 1975 in Whatcom County, Washington, she and Mr. Donald Plumley mutually agreed to live together as husband and wife and so represented themselves before family and friends. They have since continuously lived toaether, moving from Bellinqham, Washington, to Logan, Utah, in 1977, from there to Lakeview, Oreqon, in November 1980, and then to Bozeman, Montana, in November 1982. They intend to remain living together in the future. They have had joint bank accounts and lease agree- ments, and Mr. Plumley is named beneficiary under Ms. Marsh's life insurance and is covered by her medical insurance. Thp Forest Service transferred Ms. Marsh from Lakeview, Oreqon, to Bozeman, Montana, where she repoorted for duty on November 15, 1982. She received travel expenses, includina per diem, mileage foc driving privately owned vehicles, and temporary auarters subsistence expenses for herself and Mr. Plumley. O- i I I

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