Posted on 08/17/2003 2:34:43 PM PDT by ImFightingMad
I am writing this to make this Legal Tragedy better known and also in hope that someone could help the thousands of us in this tragic situation.
Like many Americans at this time, I have been laid off. This in itself is bad enough for most Americans, but those of us that have been divorced face a Legal Tragedy that is against The Constitution and all moral concepts. Men are almost exclusively affected by what I am about to tell you. This shows the discrimination of the courts and the laws in this country.
Since I have been laid off, I am only “earning” unemployment insurance, which is only 16.6% of my previous gross income. I therefore cannot pay the alimony and child support that the courts ordered in my divorce in Florida. I do not even have enough money for my own expenses. The courts in Florida are looking at finding me in contempt of court because of non-payment. They would therefore put me in jail along with countless others for the same reason. This makes no legal or moral sense in many ways:
1. If I was still married and got laid off, would the courts care, of course not! The family would have to do what they could to survive. But, since I have been divorced, and there is no relationship anymore, I’m supposed to support them over supporting myself, otherwise go to jail. How does this make any logical, moral or legal sense? Why is it that since I am divorced I have a greater financial responsibility than I ever did when I was married? Why should all of my rights be taken away because I am unemployed now, and yet my ex-wife is suppose to maintain the same or better lifestyle as when I was employed? This again, would not be the case if I were still married. This shows that divorce laws take precedence over basic human rights and are stronger laws than marriage itself, which is a bond with God.
2. If I’m in jail, how am I supposed to find a job? After being in jail, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to ever find a good job again!
3. This type of incarceration was abolished with the 13th Amendment. Which prohibits Involuntary Servitude. Also 8 USCA-56 prohibits Peonage.
Why should my life and other’s be completely destroyed just because we were ever married and now unemployed?
Isn’t the fact that I, and many others have lost our jobs enough of a tragedy in itself? How does completely destroying the rest of our lives solve anything? In this situation, what could any of us ever do to help ourselves?
I was extremely involved in the 2000 Presidential election, supporting George Bush. I lived and worked in Austin, Texas, but I was still a registered voter in Florida. The government and country that I so dearly loved and put so much energy into, has now let me down.
Please Help!
I doubt it. If men stopped marrying women, Congress would eventually make it mandatory for a man to take a wife. I never considered myself to be 'on strike', but I would have to be bonkers to get married when there are so many women out there giving it up during the 'audition'.
I would become a fugitive before committing suicide. Your ex will go around telling everyone how you were at fault because you were mentally ill all along.
Women who do this kind of stuff to a man should burn in hell.
In my own divorce, I got custody of the kids together with a child support order. My ex called me the evening after the final hearing and told me I would never collect a cent of it-she was right.
Until this this thinking is passe, only a idjit man would marry.
,,, so was I. I was booted out with $NZ35 and my clothes in Dec 1994. That Christmas I was allowed to sit on the kerb outside my home and give my two kids their presents. Time has marched on and the ex lives with my father in my $330k house. She got the Volvos and half the value of investments etc. I was cleaned out big time (because it's for the children). I'm older and wiser now and able to guage the transparency of your comments quite easily. I'd bet in this regard you'll have little to offer any prospective partner on a long term basis with an outlook like yours.
Exactly...
Would I like a long term committed relationship? Sure.... but not while the deck is stacked against me.
I'll just go the serial monogamy route til then,
Face it ladies, us menfolk are wising up!
Having a grand time actually.
Well... at least I have an income! LOL
Of course... but until there is a surefire way of discriminating - I'll just stay in non-nuptial "agreements".
Are you working on your Vulcan mind-meld?
,,, an income? Your selling your labour? A lot of the world's population can claim that. So, with an income you're a real catch, eh? Now that's a sucker! You'd put a shingle out proclaiming "I've got an income - I'll pay your bills"? Loser! Once again!
Here's your chance to shine... tell me what's going to make you a real catch for the sort of woman who wouldn't throw you on the electric fence that this thread is all about.
That the problem right there, guy.
I'm retired Navy, and I have seen this a thousand times. Retired military persons are seen as automatic check machines. The women know the checks will be coming, and if necessary, her portion removed before he even sees it after she gets the courts on her side.
There are women who cant resist the idea of getting that money without having to put of with the man who earned it.
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