Please understand the law here in NY:
If a man has sex with a woman, she is entitled to half of his assets, and also half of his earnings for the rest of his life.
On the other side of this is a friend of mine in Fresno, CA who is in the middle of a divorce from her husband of 26 years. She has three kids with him (16, 13, and 11) and over the years she and the kids have lived in near-poverty. There’s always been questions of food on the table and she’s had to borrow money from her parents to pay bills and buy clothes for the kids.
Her husband works in sales and has always told her no end of hard-luck stories about why he could not make more money to help out at home. He also filed the taxes on his own all that time because she was a stay-at-home mom and dodn’t need to sign the tax returns.
Now her attorney pulled all of his bank records and found that he’s been making over $300,000 a year! He also has money salted away offshore!
It’s guys like this who caused the current system to work the way it does.