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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who gets what can get negotiated but he is entitled to half. [/quote]

My best girlfriend learned this lesson the hard way.  She was completely delusional (despite everything that we plus her attorneys told her) and felt that her being the breadwinner entitled him to less than half of the "marital pot of money."

Take your increase in net worth over the course of the past 15 years of marriage, divide it in half.  That's what he will get.

You will also possibly pay him child support plus alimony, even though he's a deadbeat.

Also, he will also likely be entitled to a large portion of your pension when you retire.  Don't want that?  Fine, then you'll have to pay him significantly more than half of the assets when you divorce.  That is what they mean by "equitable".

My Aunt divorced a total and complete deadbeat.  As in, she had a job at a hedge fund making about $400,000/year, while he refused to work.  He was a lousy SAHD, and he smoked pot all day in their backyard while she worked.  He was abusive and hit her, there were hospital records from when he broke her rib.  She still had to pay more than half of their assets so that she could avoid paying him ongoing alimony.  It did not matter that he hit her, cheated on her, and did drugs.

The absolute most miserable divorcees I've ever met were female breadwinners.  They spend most of their marriages unhappy to be providing for an man, and the final insult comes when they have to pay half of what they view as completely theirs on the way out the door.[/quote]

Men have been dealing with this since the beginning of family law...sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn't it?[/quote]

As I'm sure you know, it's only been in the last few decades that women have had the opportunity to become breadwinners.[/quote]

Not sure how that's relevant...in a developed country it's poor form to throw the non-working partner in a marriage out on the street if the marriage dissolves which is why we have alimony (even if they are a cheating, deadbeat loser who can't hold down a job).

You really can't be this dense and lacking in self-awareness, right? A man can marry and provide for a woman, get cheated on and served with divorce papers, and I doubt you're going to be crying foul about how unfair alimony and the family law system is. [/quote]

Why do you jump to the conclusion that I’d support a cheating wife? You’re so bizarre. Go away, MRA loser.[/quote]

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