We are toying with the option of using a combination of solicitor type and addressees to avoid having to create records for our spouses who are solicitors.  As an independent school, this is a huge portion of our population.

Amanda Styles, Director of Annual Giving, Paideia School, Atlanta, GA 

I would not recommend it as in nearly all places (on gifts, in proposals, etc.) you don't have the option of seeing an addressee - it is always just LN, FN. 

Do not do this under any circumstances.  It violates all principles of database design.  Solicitors need to be constituents.  Period.

You may be able to avoid having two records by switching who is the primary constituent, but in some cases you simply cannot avoid having two constituent records for a couple.

Drew

I handle the spouse as solicitor by making the spouse a constituent and giving them a constituency Code of Second Account - which gets excluded from all mailings (solicitations, etc.) We have this same issue crop up with Committee members too.