Maniac_Killer
05-06-2007, 06:06 PM
Maybe it is time to change our marriage and divorce laws to reflect todays society .The outdated principal of marriage was to create a legal unit to conceive and raise children . The trend toward single parent families seems to be on the rise and our Marriage laws today just make a bitter fight inevitable upon the dissolution through divorce . The children we created the laws to protect seem to be the ones to pay during a messy divorce . The dissolution of family assets used to pay outrageous divorce Lawyers and court costs leave too many family remnants financially devastated .
The last-reported U.S. divorce rate for a calendar year, available as of May, 2005, is 0.38% divorces per capita per year. This means one in 12 couples is heading for the divorce courts after 24 months of marriage
Divorce Rates (http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html)
Our 'no-fault"divorce laws
have led to an explosion of bitter child custody fights where nobody wins. The cost of divorce litigation is out of control,and ordinary people often cannot afford lawyers for their divorces because family assets are tied up during the divorce. Hiring an attorney costs at least $1,500 to $5,000 per spouse for uncomplicated cases, and can and do cost upward of $ 18,000 per spouse when child custody and division of marital property is involved .
With the high divorce rates and the financial devastation of a divorce , maybe we should rethink common-law marriages or cohabitation agreements .
The last-reported U.S. divorce rate for a calendar year, available as of May, 2005, is 0.38% divorces per capita per year. This means one in 12 couples is heading for the divorce courts after 24 months of marriage
Divorce Rates (http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html)
Our 'no-fault"divorce laws
have led to an explosion of bitter child custody fights where nobody wins. The cost of divorce litigation is out of control,and ordinary people often cannot afford lawyers for their divorces because family assets are tied up during the divorce. Hiring an attorney costs at least $1,500 to $5,000 per spouse for uncomplicated cases, and can and do cost upward of $ 18,000 per spouse when child custody and division of marital property is involved .
With the high divorce rates and the financial devastation of a divorce , maybe we should rethink common-law marriages or cohabitation agreements .