I support this much needed reform!
Posted on 08/09/2014 6:25:03 PM PDT by Loyalist
Like many couples in their first months of courtship, Véronique Laliberté and Francys-Roch Bisson agreed to take things step by step.
For this Gatineau, Que., couple, this also meant line by line — in the form of a relationship contract. The agreement, they say, sets clear expectations around resources and fidelity, guarantees they not take their partnership for granted, and gives them an easy out should they wish to take it.
“We renewed after three months, we renewed after six months and now we have a contract for one year,” Ms. Laliberté told the National Post this week. “It’s working out pretty well — so far so good. We’re still together, we’re still in love and everything is fine.”
The early days of their relationship coincided with the start of Ms. Laliberté’s masters of law thesis at the University of Ottawa in which she has advocated a legal shakeup that would change the landscape of marriage forever in Canada: Fixed term marriage.
By her plan a fixed-term marriage would legally dissolve after four years, unless a couple visits a lawyer to renew it (a less expensive and onerous proposition than a divorce, she claims). A fixed contract might include a provision vowing not to blend finances and separate property fairly, and it would be something both parties can plan around, she said — no unexpected outbursts of ‘‘I want a divorce.’’ Think of it, Ms. Laliberté said, as a “legally governed trial period” that could lead to a lifelong contract.
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Because this is exactly what this is: leasing a spouse like a car. Everything else is just a related expense, like gas, insurance, maintenance and repairs.
Attacks on civilization like this are nothing new
Law students.
pfft!
This model also raises problems after disability or dementia. An old person with dementia cannot consent to renew a marriage, so what happens to the spouse whose marriage has just expired and whose partner is no longer legally responsible or allowed to be their guardian?
Why do people in college think they are the smartest people who ever lived in the last 6,000 years?
“Cut it off after four years”
That would certainly keep the man from cheating on his wife.
What’s wrong with “till death do we part”?
It worked for both my grandparents, and both parents and inlaws, seem to be doing gone after 60+ years.
The primary purpose of real marriage is to create a stable family in which to raise children. Gay “marriage” and this sort of temporary “marriage” are temporary and superficial contracts for sex or for legal benefits, no different morally from the very short term commercial contracts reached on a street corner in the red light district.
Because life is all about ‘point of view’. At least that is what I think.
“CUT IT OFF after four years”, Elena Bobbit gives an enthusiastic ‘thumbs up’!
Seriously though,
We grow up knowing we must attend school from kindergarten to Senior in High School. We have the option to continue to college.
Therefore we are raised with the concept that by SR. year or a few years into college, you must know all there is to know. Otherwise our society would require that you attend ‘school’ much longer.
seems like women really believe it’s awesome for them.
i believe they will find it’s a lot worse for them.
sci-fi has had this in several different stories. stephen king’s the running man novella discussed that this was a common thing, with a lifelong contract being very rare.
On a cost VS use basis It would have been cheaper for me to hire professional services instead of giving half my net worth to one woman.
Cooking, cleaning and sex to my desires with no B.S. that I’m hindering her growth or her needing to find herself (in someone else’s bed).
If you want an old fashioned girl to marry you need a fracking time machine.
I’m ready to ex-pat this country for Ireland and find a country girl with red hair and green eyes and hire her.
I’m not bitter there must be good women out there. The last one I met in church, and was not really a good one.
lolz
So she read the novelization of Star Trek II, and then shaved a year off. It’s not that radical an idea, if you accept that legal marriages are basically a contract making them more “normal” contracts that cover a limited time and are renewable makes some sense. But there’s so much other baggage that goes with marriage thinking there can be a “clean” break by letting the contract expire is very naive.
Yeah, we should make marriage easier, because it’s sooooo hard to work on a relationship. (Weep, weep). Why does it have to be so hard? It’s supposed to be easy if you are in love! (Sob, sob)
What a joke. It’s just getting good at four years.
15 min marriage in islam, aka legalized pc prostitution.
bump
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