Leap Year babies...?

[The Dude]

I've always wondered about this, but have never heard how it works...

For people born on Feb. 29th...what day is their birthday?
Would it be March 1st for any non-leap year?

[Mecklenburg Cock]

I think they only have an actual birthday in date once every two years. I saw something about this the other day and they're having a party for the leap year babies that were unfortunately enough to be born on the 29th.

[The Dude]

So, only one official birthday every 4 years....I assume they still track how old they are, based off of March 1st (but without the day to actually celebrate it)?

Man, that would suck for kids!

[SNEEZ]

itd be great for people like me who think parties for bdays are unimportant, and pointless.

[The Dude]

I'm not big on celebrating my own birthday either...I could care less about it

But I enjoy celebrating the birthday of loved ones.

[Mecklenburg Cock]

So, only one official birthday every 4 years....I assume they still track how old they are, based off of March 1st (but without the day to actually celebrate it)?

Man, that would suck for kids!

Yea, that's gotta suck. I guess it makes the party every 4 years all the more worthwhile for them.

[Spurticus]

Funny story but true:

My wife and I (second wife), starting dating while she was only legally separated from her first Husband, and I had just gotten my divorce from my first wife. We dated for about two years (through her separation and then her divorce). We had already planned to get married as soon as her divorce was final. Both of us had done the church weddings with our first marriages, and decided simply to go to the courthouse and tie the knot this time.
The day she went to court to finalize her divorce, coming out of the courthouse, she asked her lawyer how long her and I had to wait to be married. He told her "Legally, you can go right across the street now, and get married if you want to". We went out to eat after the divorce and we talk about when we'd tie the knot and (having lived together for 6 months now) we decided to go the courthouse, fill out the paper work and set the date. . . . Which we did. When you fill out the paperwork at the courthouse, they make you place your hand on the bible and swear you are not legally married when you apply for the license, and with her just being divorced that day, she was no longer bound to her Ex, so we both said "We Swear" . . . .Filled out the paperwork, and went back one week later and got married (Oct. 22nd 1993).
A little over two years later, we were getting ready to move and we were going through the filing cabinet getting rid of a lot of old files and finding out what we needed to keep, and I picked up a copy of our Divorce papers my wife had filed. I looked at hers and on the last page of the decree, it was signed by the judge on October 28th, 1992 . . I showed it to my wife and told her, "I know what your lawyer told you that day you left the courthouse, BUT. . . . the judge didn't sign the divorce papers until over a week after we got married. We may be OK, but I'm going to call and find out"
WELL . . . turns out when I called Family Court, they told me not only were we not Legally Married, but when my wife swore she wasn't legally bound to another by marriage, she comitted purjury because the divorce was not legal until signed and stamped by the judge. !!!!!
I asked her what we needed to do to make the thing legal, and she said "Tear Up the copy of your other marriage license, and get yourselves up here and do this again" ! . . . We go to the courthouse and had to refile the paperwork, swear once again we were not leagally married to another person, and then set a date to get married again. . We wanted to do it that day, but they were booked until well after Valentines day. (this was early Feb. 1996) Their earliest opening was Feb. 29th so we took that day and went back and said "I DO" once again. So "LEGALLY" our anniversary in once every 4 years (Tomorrow in fact), but we still celebrate our Anniversary on Oct. 22nd. Heading for #15 this year.

[ColaCock]

itd be great for people like me who think parties for bdays are unimportant, and pointless.
going out with all your best friends, laughing your asses off, drinking beer, throwing back shots, and flat out partying until the wee hours of the morning...pointless? i think not. i celebrate each year like i'm turning 21.

[ColaCock]

So, only one official birthday every 4 years....I assume they still track how old they are, based off of March 1st (but without the day to actually celebrate it)?

Man, that would suck for kids!

yeah so like...when you turn 28...technically you have only had 7 birthdays.

[CoolCockyChick]

So "LEGALLY" our anniversary in once every 4 years (Tomorrow in fact), but we still celebrate our Anniversary on Oct. 22nd. Heading for #15 this year.

Wow, interesting Spurt ..... the same thing kinda happened to me. My ex-hubby and I got married Nov '98 but when going through our divorce in '02 I found his divorce papers from his first marriage, that weren't signed until Jan '99. Well I thought maybe that's good and we're not legally married so I don't have to go through this whole divorce thing. WRONG! My lawyer told me that since neither one of us knew it at the time we got married that we were still legally married only the court wouldn't recognize as having been married until the day after his divorce was finalized.

[TheMule]

yeah so like...when you turn 28...technically you have only had 7 birthdays.

Yeah, kinda like bizarro dog years.

[SNEEZ]

going out with all your best friends, laughing your asses off, drinking beer, throwing back shots, and flat out partying until the wee hours of the morning...pointless? i think not. i celebrate each year like i'm turning 21.


:-x You wait until your birthday?!:-x

we do that every other weekend!!:thumbsup:

[Spurticus]

Wow, interesting Spurt ..... the same thing kinda happened to me. My ex-hubby and I got married Nov '98 but when going through our divorce in '02 I found his divorce papers from his first marriage, that weren't signed until Jan '99. Well I thought maybe that's good and we're not legally married so I don't have to go through this whole divorce thing. WRONG! My lawyer told me that since neither one of us knew it at the time we got married that we were still legally married only the court wouldn't recognize as having been married until the day after his divorce was finalized.

This is basically what the lady at the courthouse told me too.
She said it wasn't that "weren't married, it's just that the court wouldn't recognize it as being a legal bond. She said we would have to make the decision to get remarried or not. . .. . Said it could cause some red tape if one of us died and the other may have a tough time proving they were entitled to the estate as the legal bennificary. We didn't want to take any chances.