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    Default Can I Marry a Registered Sex Offender

    My question involves marriage law for the State of: Texas
    my name is Martha. i am 20 years old. my husband-to-be, ace, is turning 21 in two days. he has also spent the entire month of October incarcerated in the Denton county jail for missing a court date he didn't know about, one that i couldn't tell him. i was in jail at the time. we tried to keep him out of trouble, we appeared at court the only day we knew, Oct. 1st. we found out he had a warrant, and was arrested.
    since he was 16 years old, he has been labeled a public sex offender under false accusations. his childhood friend claims he molested him at 10 years old. his testimony keeps changing, from "after school" to "at a birthday party" and the weapon of choice changed from "a knife" to "a handgun" to "a shotgun" so it's obvious he was merely trying to blame ace for what his uncle had done to him in the past. he's passed lie detectors, and polygraph tests, but to no avail. since then, he's been in and out of detention centers for the last 5 years. for a few minor crimes, yes. but he should've never had to "register" in the first place. there is no evidence supporting his guilt, only a false and ever-changing testimony. the laws in Texas are completely biased. he's setting himself up with a family lawyer, who is trying to get him as a defered-registration case, so hopefully this whole thing can pass.
    are there any laws in texas that make marriage in this situation difficult? what about the custody of our future children?

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    Default Re: Can I Marry a Registered Sex Offender

    You are setting yourself up for a life of poverty, discrimination and excessive scrutiny. Your children will suffer the same public scrutiny and humiliation. You should seriously consider whether this admitted criminal, is worth throwing your life away for. Do it before having kids.

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    Default Re: Can I Marry a Registered Sex Offender

    was "Ace" found guilty of the sex offense in a court?

    and why would you be required to tell "Ace" of his court dates? What was his court date for?

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    Default Re: Can I Marry a Registered Sex Offender

    his attorneys have been postponing the actual sentencing for about three years. he is required to register every year, but his court date (where it says he failed to register, which isn't true) was missed because he didn't know about it. he now has a plea hearing on the 1st of november, and they expect him to plead guilty, which he won't do, consider the considerable evidence in his favor

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    Default Re: Can I Marry a Registered Sex Offender

    if he was not notified properly, then he should not be punished for missing the court date. Of course, when he goes to court for this, they will inform him how he was notified, if they court did notify him.

    and postponing sentencing for 3 years? Is he dealing with an deferred adjudication?

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    Default Re: Can I Marry a Registered Sex Offender

    that's what he's been trying to do. it's very difficult to figure all of this out and how to deal with it. he and i plan to be married within the next year, and i need to know how this is going to affect it

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    You don't try to do a deferred adjudication. Either the courts agreed to it already or they didn't. If they didn't, then you need to accept the fact this will affect your life from here on out. Depending on the crime and the ultimate outcome, it could be a minimal intrusion into your life or it could affect your life on a daily basis. Until you have a final resolution to the issue, it is impossible to say if and how it will affect your life.

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