Posted on 08/09/2014 6:25:03 PM PDT by Loyalist
Like many couples in their first months of courtship, Véronique Laliberté and Francys-Roch Bisson agreed to take things step by step.
For this Gatineau, Que., couple, this also meant line by line — in the form of a relationship contract. The agreement, they say, sets clear expectations around resources and fidelity, guarantees they not take their partnership for granted, and gives them an easy out should they wish to take it.
“We renewed after three months, we renewed after six months and now we have a contract for one year,” Ms. Laliberté told the National Post this week. “It’s working out pretty well — so far so good. We’re still together, we’re still in love and everything is fine.”
The early days of their relationship coincided with the start of Ms. Laliberté’s masters of law thesis at the University of Ottawa in which she has advocated a legal shakeup that would change the landscape of marriage forever in Canada: Fixed term marriage.
By her plan a fixed-term marriage would legally dissolve after four years, unless a couple visits a lawyer to renew it (a less expensive and onerous proposition than a divorce, she claims). A fixed contract might include a provision vowing not to blend finances and separate property fairly, and it would be something both parties can plan around, she said — no unexpected outbursts of ‘‘I want a divorce.’’ Think of it, Ms. Laliberté said, as a “legally governed trial period” that could lead to a lifelong contract.
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What is “it”?
I want term limits for pols, now liberals want term limits for marriage.
Whee, so much for God and His Law!
“Cut it off after four years”
My response was cut WHAT off?
...and what do I get in return?
You try to cut mine off after four years, we’re going to have a problem.
Sorry for your loss. I believe my son met one like her. She still hasn’t found herself, but she is a decent mom sort of, and she wasn’t vindictive, not yet anyway.
From the fertile minds of babes!
Lawyer attention seeking whores at work once again. They never let up...
I guess it makes as much sense as “gay marriage”. Marriage was supposed to set up a stable foundation for raising children. Once you decide that children are not part of the equation, marriage is useless for society.
Just make it an option. Attorneys make a fortune in divorce work. An expiring contract cuts the divorce costs immensely. No one says you have to do it. But a 1 year trial, expanding it, would be an option to some.
It’s not marriage.
There seems to be more and more confusion these days about what marriage is.
It is women like these who have gave the men the attitude, why buy a cow when you can just go into the heard and get free milk.
Not that I don1t like women, I do and think every man should own a couple.
The whole point of marriage is to keep the couple together when they don’t want to. Yes, for the kids: the institution was a hard learned lesson.
Whoa whoa whoa stud.
15 mins?
What do they do with the extra 13 minutes?
/I say, I say boy... that’s the joke.
Gee I don’t know, all those high school send-offs that tell them just that?
“I did not have sex with this woman. All I saw was the top of someone’s head...”
I need to meet someone who believes in happily ever after, if I could ever trust anyone ever again...........
New twist on singles ads: “Lost my lease”
And it would have been worth it.
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