WillisV, that's the diagram I was picturing. This situation is as common as dirt, yet there are people here saying it should be avoided?
Slightly off-topic, you mention using slip critical bolts to share the load with weld in a common shear plane. The 13th edition specification took this out. That has been the practice for a long time, but it was deliberately changed, as it has been shown to yield unconservative results in certain cases.