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Quote by: lsbskins1 Again, case by case. If he was a politician, and she was his political wife (by this I mean that her very existence as a "traditional wife" enhances his career and electability), then yes, she is entitled. If they lived in a small house, he worked as a mechanic and they needed the income and she refused to get a job, different story. Case by case is the only real answer to this question. |
How about if he was an alcoholic mechanic who became more abusive if she dared leave the home, causing her to give up her higher education and any chance of a career, and then he walks out leaving her with the children and neither the education nor work experience to be competitive for career position, and she is too old to complete that education, begin a career and build a retirement fund. What is fair then?
By the way, not all states have a 50/50 law, and the child support situation sucks big time! At least in Oregon, the state now determines how much a parent will pay for child support and automatically deducts it from people's wages, even when parents have agreed neither one will pay child support when the other has the children. There is no judge and attroneys, at least not for the poor, working on these decisions. The decision is based on a state standard, and the state has complete power of tyranny. Even when people have had lawyers and settled in court, I am horrified by the injustice to men, that has recently shifted to an injustice to women as well. The decisions are so insane they have nothing to do with the welfare of children. My son was ordered to pay his wife back child support, for the short time she had their son. He has raised his son most the years and presently has custody of their son. As soon as the mother gets the back support payment, she gets drugs. Their son is doing without while the mother is destroying her life with drugs, and evidently there is nothing my son can do to protect his son with the money needed for his expenses, while the state is enabling the mother to be a drug addict. Talk about injustice! This is the power of tyranny folks. It should not be confused with the conflicts between husbands and wives, pitting us against eachother, rather than unity us against the tyranny above us. The state has become a tyrant over all parents and is out of control.