Yes it does. Also rewards ex-spouses for shacking up instead of re-marrying.
I was divorced by my wife of 20 years in 1997. I didn’t see it coming. Fortunately my youngest was 10 and I got custody of her at 15. Still, my “maintenance” and child support reached $3700 a month at one point. But it ended about 5 years ago. If I was a young man today., and I thought we were at risk of getting a divorce, my first act BEFORE it starts is to try to move to Texas. Second act is to hide money. Once she goes for it, the third is to leave the country. I’m not kidding. If I had it to do all over again I would be in mexico still. Or Honduras, actually.
Yes, the system is that blatantly unfair. It is literally slavery and I will do everything within my power to avoid it.
Huh? Never heard of permanent alimony. My sister was married for 26 years when her husband left, and he was ordered to pay her alimony for two years so she could finish her degree, although the amount was only $150 per month. Hardly a win fall for her after supporting him through his college and career advancement.
Of all the people I have know who have gotten divorced I do not know a single woman who came out the financial winner.
How unfair of those hard-heated legislators to do that to these poor(?) women!!! </sarcasm>
“The Florida court system has its hooks in me for the rest of my life, as long as my (ex-)wife is alive,” said Hoye, 57, the Polk County representative for Florida Alimony Reform.
If I was this guy I’d make sure every second of my time is accounted for. If his ex ends up dead from anything remotely suspicious, he’s in trouble.
I didn’t get alimony, didn’t even try for it...but I was given an award for child support. 2 kids, a total due of $150 a month, and he hasn’t paid for amost 10 years.
I don’t believe in divorce, and my wife knows that if she tries to take me to divorce court, I will skip the country with my money just to spite her.
It’s only because I love her, and I believe in Christ’s commandments more than some stupid personal issues.
They killed the goose that laid the golden egg.
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.
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.
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.