Something is very wrong with this system.
RE: Something is very wrong with this system.
Let’s call it by what it is — INDENTURED SERVITUDE.
We have it in America.
Every time I read something like this, I realize how rare the court commissioner’s and guardian ad litem’s behavior were in my son’s case. The commissioner told his then-wife to get out and get a job, and to provide the court with evidence that she had applied at 10 places per week until she secured a job. Won’t go into details, but SHE has to pay HIM child support, and our son has full legal custody and primary placement of our grandson.
That's me. So long as my ex and her live-in never marry, they both get to live off of me.
Times have so much that a woman can have a history of adultery, and still claim up ridiculous alimony. Courts are tilted towards women in every way, including child custody cases.
That recent book, "Men on Strike", is a good anecdotal read on why men are not getting married anymore.
It is a bad system. Many years ago, I worked for a young attorney who handled “domestic relations” cases. In those days it was considered good litigation and trial experience for law school grads just starting out.
Well, it was a nightmare. Clients were mostly women determined to obtain revenge on their ex-husbands by any means necessary. Alimony and child support were killers. Many of these women were financially comfortable in their own right, but they wanted the old man to pay dearly.
Even worse was child custody. These women would go to any length to keep the ex-husbands away from their children. One woman had her ex-husband arrested in front of his colleagues for a bogus charge of molesting their child. The kids are the ones who suffer.
The young attorney’s own marriage began to suffer when these stupid women started calling him at home late at night to whine about what *@$!#s their exes were. He finally went to his superiors and said, no more. Thank goodness. This was one area of the law I hated.
Once the ex-spouse remarries or co-habitates, alimony should end and should be spelled out in the divorce decree. Shame on your friend’s lawyer for not taking care of that.
I just finished in May my alimony sentence to my ex wife.
After 8 years of $1,200 per month she had the audacity to tell me when it was over that I should consider giving her at least $500 for the rest of her life since I “could afford it”
All along I kept telling her to plan for the future or marry a bald headed plumber.... but no...
Sheesh......