Sounds like the same kind of idiotic laws I've heard about in Washington state, where just dating a woman with kids from another guy puts you on the hook.
For the life of me, I can't understand why men who hear about or have seen first hand the abuses going on and still think it can't happen to them. More than 50% of marriages end in divorce, and rare is the case where the man doesn't get reemed in the process. Picture this: someone comes up to a guy and the street and offers a wager on a coin toss. Heads, and he gets to go on with his life like nothing happened. Tails, he loses half, if not more, of everything he has worked for, a good chunk of his earnings in the future (which he must pay under threat of criminal sanction) and suffer emotional losses that no amount of money can ever replace. Most men that wouldn't punch the person offering that bet in the nose would laugh and walk away from such a sucker-bet. But every year, millions of men take that bet. Just as entertaining are the others who will mock and scoff at those who are smart enough not to gamble in that casino.
Good analogy. Like I said, people unthinkingly take risks with their relationships that they'd feel foolish taking with their personal finances. And, you're right about the "scoffers"; some of my best friends try to make me feel foolish for being cautious. It amazes me. But, they're free to do as they wish. I'm always there to buy up their guns and other toys that their wives invariably make them get rid of when they get married. Of course, after the divorce, I always offer to sell them back at a slight markup...;)