Billboard's Owner Seeks to Put an End to ‘Permanent Alimony'

The Ledger ^ | Saturday, June 25, 2011 | Gary White

[RobRoy]

“Why go to Texas?”

I’ve read about their divorce laws. Very equitable and in favor of the man.

Frankly, I’d love to see a no-fault divorce law that said whichever wants out, they’re out; of the money, the house and the kids.

[Paleo Conservative]

Frankly, I’d love to see a no-fault divorce law that said whichever wants out, they’re out; of the money, the house and the kids.

I think no-fault divorces should only be granted if both parties agree to them.

[CaptainK]

Frankly, I’d love to see a no-fault divorce law that said whichever wants out, they’re out; of the money, the house and the kids.

The one problem with that is many times the offending party makes life miserable for their partner while showing no compunction to leave.

[conservative cat]

Agreed. And/or they skip out with another person and act financially irresponsibly in the process, leaving that party no choice but to make the first party’s arrangement’s legally official.

As it is, the person filing (in no-fault, community property states) then gets the added joy of being the one who bears the higher legal costs, as well, too. (It costs more to file, do discovery, etc.)

[Sawdring]

Susan Jordan, a Cocoa resident who said her first husband grew so discouraged by court-mandated alimony payments he killed himself in 2003.

They killed the goose that laid the golden egg.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The sane approach to things should be to create a standard prenuptial agreement. Done properly, it would promote the economic security of both partners, as well as their confidence that if things didn’t work out, there would not be as much lawyer-stimulated acrimony, or fees.

For example, such a prenup could include things like having both individual and joint bank accounts, working and nonworking spouse investment accounts, DNA registration for any children (which is increasingly important for medical reasons), as well as any rules for egg and or sperm cryogenic storage. The list goes on and on.

The end result is, for richer or poorer, any breakup is not going to be vicious, because it will achieve nothing.

[familyop]

The divorce/cohabitation industry serves three purposes.

* Keeping potential, domestic competition down.

* Spreading the social pathologies of the elite to common families.

* Constructing the artificial, defaulting economy of the present.

Enjoy, because after the deposition of the socially aberrant, we won’t tolerate the tyrants’ tool of feminism/romanticism again for a very long time.

[Secret Agent Man]

Child support isn’t alimony. I don’t think anyone begrudges the parent who has primary custody of the kids, getting child support from the other parent.

Of course not all parents who get child support use it for child support.

Why didn’t the state wher you live go after this guys’ wages and garnish, or go after his bank accounts? They do that all the time.

[RobRoy]

>>The one problem with that is many times the offending party makes life miserable for their partner while showing no compunction to leave.<<

I agree. That is why I think the only way out is if the other side of the marriage can be convicted of a felony, e.g. physical abuse.

[CaptainK]

What about about if you’ve cheated but what to stay put? You don’t think the other person has a right to start divorce proceedings?

[RobRoy]

Yes, they can. And then they leave - with the shirt on their back.

[longtermmemmory]

try fl’s 12 years,

even though fl has a boyfriend cohabitation rule, good luck proving it.

[trussell]

He works, they find him and start the collection process, he finds out about it and quits. He won’t hold a job unless it’s “under the table” pay...that way, he doesn’t have to pay. He doesn’t file taxes either since they would seize that...the first 4 years, he filed and claimed the kids’ EIC...taking about $7000 a year from the government that he wasn’t due.

Now he’s married to a convicted/registered sex offender. She gets disability because of the conviction. They live off that, and a paper route that pays unreported cash. (the last I heard anyway)

[Secret Agent Man]

Yikes. What a disaster.

[Steve Hoye Fl.]

This IS the billboard guy. Attorney Blankinship makes the presumption that the state should have control and total say of the remainder of our lives...over a broken marriage. Many states have a simple calculation of alimony support ie 1/2 the duration of the marriage, some much less.
FAR (http://www.floridaalimonyreform.com) has what this atty cant figure out as far as “fair” alimony settlements. It does come however with considerably less billable hours.