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To: Albion Wilde

No, under no fault divorce, the woman nearly always wins. They get primary custody 95% time and hence also child support. THey also get alimony at a rate of roughly 20:1 compared to men. If my wife left me today, in the great state of SC, I’d be paying her ~$60k/year FOREVER - for 11 years of marriage (0 kids)


90 posted on 09/22/2017 6:39:09 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: rb22982
No, under no fault divorce, the woman nearly always wins.

It often depends on the state in which the parties reside, the decade in which they divorce, the particular lawyers they hire and/or the judge who hears their case. Divorce has no universal governing body. If there were standardized national divorce laws, they would be just as horrible as Obamacare or CommonCore. So it's often the luck of the draw. The divorce industry (lawyers, judges, therapists, accountants, etc) also have been crafting all kinds of ways to get around "no-fault" since its inception in the late 70s, and the results are not uniform by any means.

In SC that you mentioned as an example, it is still a "Bible belt" state where women may still invoke the hoop skirts-and-parasols stereotypes of helpless lil' wimmen. But in major cities of the northeast or west coast, there are lawyers who specialize in helping the stay-at-home spouses of professional men (lawyers, doctors, etc) who get absolutely destroyed by their husbands in divorce—because they can. It's a patchwork all over the nation.

When our "free" society first started, there was a fairly uniform moral code rooted in Judeo-Christian values. "Fault" divorce actually penalized wrongdoings like adultery, abandonment or bigamy. "No-fault" was supposed to be an enlightened way for couples who agreed to divorce could speed up the process; but it soon morphed into a full-blown marxist assault on traditional morality, common sense and/or fair play. Now that four generations have had all that exploded in their faces, legal outcomes are anything some random judge thinks they should be whether he or she is having a good day or a bad one. It's chaos.

106 posted on 09/22/2017 8:12:59 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: rb22982

Alimony needs to be outlawed.

It makes no sense for a man to be ordered to pay the bills of a woman who is no longer his wife.


134 posted on 09/22/2017 9:53:45 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: rb22982

It is an asset for women to divorce and it is a liability for men to marry.


152 posted on 09/22/2017 10:23:54 AM PDT by deadrock
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