Posted on 12/19/2007 9:56:44 AM PST by PurpleMan
"...in todays world, in which women have fought for the right to equality, alimony seems more like a kid getting an allowance from daddy and I believe it should be abolished altogether except for extremely dire circumstances where a spouse is older, cannot work at all, and for only a short term period. No man or woman should be held to being a slave to an ex-spouse after a marriage ends. That said, if we are going to have alimony laws, I believe that men and women should be held to an equal standard under the law."
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Equal rights! Amen!
Hell yeah!
Yes!
In fact, men should by default get child custody and women be forced to pay child support.
Single-mothers do a notoriously bad job of raising children. There are even names for children without fathers such as bast@rd.
Men, on the other hand, do a remarkably good job as single parents.
The prisons are full of people who were raised without a father - yet the kids raised without a mother are usually fine.
Right-O!
Much akin to the now antiquated “custom” of ‘tipping’ waitpersons, as well as every Tom, Dick, and Harriet who crosses our path.
And this system is taken advantage of by the IRS, all of gub-mint, employers, the tippees themselves, etc., etc.
Ya think the military might change their iron-clad, Byzantine and unfair law of giving spouses a percentage of a servicemember’s retirement?
Doubtful.
A more important development would be to give men the same authority in determining for themselves, whether they will become a parent. Currently the woman can take the decision for the man during a pregnancy, that she will carry to term and encumber him financially against his explicit wishes. While I am adamantly against abortion unless to save the actual life of the mother, fairness dictates a man should be able to perform a legal abortion should the woman decide to deliver, which would release him from financial liability and prohibit his involvement.
Fine by mean, but if the wife stays at home throughout most of her productive working life while the husband puts in the hours to get promoted and a better standard of living, is the woman supposed to start her career at 40 at minimum wage with no work skills???
I didn’t know whether to offer condolences or pop a bottle of champaign when the news came one evening.
I understand there were multiple empty bottles at his and sister's home the next morning!
Actually there is legal precedent for an ex-spouse to get a percentage of their partner’s retirement based on the time they were actually married. Google ‘QDRO’ for more information.
Idea being that if two were married for, say, 20 years and one spouse stayed home to take care of the kids and then gets dumped, they sacrificed their livelihood for the good of the household and should have a stake in the retirement egg they supported the other in getting.
As an ex-Pension Administrator, I think this is fine...as long as its adjusted for the amount of time a couple were married.
depends on who initiates the divorce....if the woman wants out of the marriage, then get out and make it on your own
Having no skills doesn't seem to be a problem with most women in the workforce.
RE “ is the woman supposed to start her career at 40 at minimum wage with no work skills???”
I agree and thats what no-fault divorce got us. Once the kids are overage the husband can dump his wife.
if ... one spouse stayed home
In many cases “if” is not important.
The sooner the better!
A friend had to pay spousal support to her useless, jobless, fat, violent ex-husband. The court ruled that since she had worked two jobs to support him while they were married, she should continue to work two jobs to support him once they were divorced.
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