My fiance and I just had a baby. We have always planned on getting married. Recently we found out that my fiance will be starting a new job next year making good money. We were wondering if it would be advantageous to get married before year end to take advantage of her low income, my high income, and our new baby? I make about 65k she made 14k and we live with our parents. I'm thinking that filing married jointly could be enough to bring us down to the 15% take bracket instead of the 25% I am in currently. I also think to achieve the lower bracket we would have to contribute to an IRA.