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To: Kelly_2000

Actually I am in a minority of Freeper men in that I think that dividing marital property upon divorce is fine. A lot of men (Freeper and otherwise) look at marital property as 'ours' when times are good and 'mine' when times go bad.

That's silly, as I have said many times on FR. Once you get married, it all becomes 'ours.' If after 8 years my honey decides she would rather take naps with the UPS guy than me, well what can I say - I'd be mad, upset, angry, etc, but I'd still be standing.

In that case, or any case, each party gets 1/2 of the marital property, which is to say they get 100% of the portion they already owned, anyway. It's fair, if unseemly at times.

Men who are bitter about this have no sympathy from me. Seems to me like a small price to pay to get ride of someone (legally) who is distracting you and holding you back.


701 posted on 07/06/2005 12:49:45 AM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: HitmanNY
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me, and I agree you would be a minority perspective. But I think the party that has the most to lose and has provided the majority of the joint property and wealth is always going to feel hard done by, this applies to male and female
732 posted on 07/06/2005 2:26:15 AM PDT by Kelly_2000 (Because they stand on a wall and say nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch)
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To: HitmanNY
If after 8 years my honey decides she would rather take naps with the UPS guy than me, well what can I say - I'd be mad, upset, angry, etc, but I'd still be standing.

Adultery is a crime and should not be rewarded, IMHO. You are taking the "no fault" divorce track, when there is fault. That's a bad thing in my opinion.

If your wife throws away her oath of marriage (which is where the 50% is established), then I don't understand why she would be entitled to it after taking a sledgehammer to the oath she made.

If she wants to sleep with the UPS man instead of you, she would still be out of your life, albiet without half of the marital assets, and should be prosecuted for adultery. Again ... out of your life and not holding you back.

That's like saying if I give every mugger I see $100, they are out of my life and the won't hold me back. While true, I would hardly advocate it.

Paying people to commit adultery seems more than a little nutty to many people, and will only lead to more people using this method to obtain their desired result, further bastardizing the instituion of marriage (which I suppose is the goal).

761 posted on 07/06/2005 7:09:44 AM PDT by Stu Cohen (Press '1' for English)
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