Divorces in RE

If by 'divorce them on the record' you mean you uncheck the spouse button it does limit search abilities. When Mary is a spouse her name can be found in searches. When the spouse link is broken (in my experience anyway) there is no result when searching for the non-constituent spouse.


When we 'divorce' constituents, if the non-constituent has a relationship with the org we will create use the "add this individual as a constituent" option and create a record for them.  Then they are in the system and can be found for a situation like you described of getting remarried and new spouse can be added as relationship.


If you are finding duplicate records, is it finding the relationship?  I'm thinking duplicate searches tend to just look at constituent records, not relationships.  I may be wrong on that.

Claudia Marmorowski:

Ok folks, I am looking to see if there is anyway to see the following:


If Bob and Mary get divorced but are still living at the same address or have not yet shared a new address we divorce them on the record but do not split the record (This is how it's been done years before me).


Now say Mary gets remarried and we create her and her new spouses record is their any way to see that she already exists on Bobs record?


I'm not sure if that makes sense, but basically I have been finding so many records where duplicates exist and the duplicate report is overwhelming because it was almost never done in the past... any suggestions?


Thanks!

You open Bob's record and open Mary's record within Bob's record -- you convert Mary's record into her own constituent record (relationship drop down in Mary's window).  You can then keep the relationship with Bob as her ex-husband and on her record.  Then you add Mary's new husband as her Spouse.  Her new record created through Bob, if the soft credits are turned on, should reflect any giving Bob and Mary did when married (if that is of concern, which usually it is)


make sense?