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Unless the wife has higher income in which case the husband benefits. Or maybe they even earn similar incomes...

dpark 10y ago
Yeah. I'm not sure what decade these people are living in. If you're worried about marriage because you think your wife is going to divorce you and take half your money, you could choose a spouse with her own source of good income.
- lectrick 10y ago
  That limits your choices quite a bit. For example there are a large number of attractive women with terrible incomes and/or no savings, for which "scoring a successful man" may be a "valid" mating strategy
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  - intrasight 10y ago
    Right. So as has been true forever and a day, men can either think with their head or with their penis.
    - srtjstjsj 10y ago
      You mean, use their head for their wallet or their penis.
  - dpark 10y ago
    If you select someone as your mate who is mostly interested in you for your money, then you should expect that they will take a big chunk of your money if you divorce. I don't mean this in a "you deserve it" kind of way, but in a "this is the relationship you agreed to" way. If your mate is with you for your money and you are with them for their youth and looks, then assuming you stay with them long enough that after a divorce much of their youth and good looks are gone, why shouldn't they get some of your money? You got their most valuable assets.
    - DefaultUserHN 10y ago
      You're assuming that only gold diggers will take half your money when they divorce you. But that's not true. Under United States laws, all women will take half your money when they divorce you. Doesn't matter that they're gold diggers or not. And also, most women marries up (marry a guy who makes more than her), not down.
      - dpark 10y ago
        I'm not assuming anything. If you are worried about your spouse taking "your money", then don't marry someone who isn't bringing in a similar amount of money. It's not complex. This whining about women taking "your money" in a divorce is absurd. Get a prenup or marry someone with as much or more money. If you marry someone with less money (i.e. someone "marrying up") then you are knowingly "marrying down". Don't whine about fairness. This isn't a problem with the courts being "unfair" so much as a problem with people being petty.
        DefaultUserHN 10y ago
        I agree. She doesn't have to be a gold digger to take half your money because the laws still applies regardless of her gold-digging status. The proper way to handle this is to marry some who makes the same or more than you.
        dpark 10y ago
        Or just accept that in a divorce, things will be split more or less equally in the absence of a prenup. I make more than my wife. If we got divorced, her getting half the assets would not be the biggest problem.
        DefaultUserHN 10y ago
        It's up to each person to decide what they find acceptable and act accordingly.
        10y ago

dpark 10y ago

Yeah. I'm not sure what decade these people are living in. If you're worried about marriage because you think your wife is going to divorce you and take half your money, you could choose a spouse with her own source of good income.

lectrick 10y ago
That limits your choices quite a bit. For example there are a large number of attractive women with terrible incomes and/or no savings, for which "scoring a successful man" may be a "valid" mating strategy
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- intrasight 10y ago
  Right. So as has been true forever and a day, men can either think with their head or with their penis.
  - srtjstjsj 10y ago
    You mean, use their head for their wallet or their penis.
- dpark 10y ago
  If you select someone as your mate who is mostly interested in you for your money, then you should expect that they will take a big chunk of your money if you divorce. I don't mean this in a "you deserve it" kind of way, but in a "this is the relationship you agreed to" way. If your mate is with you for your money and you are with them for their youth and looks, then assuming you stay with them long enough that after a divorce much of their youth and good looks are gone, why shouldn't they get some of your money? You got their most valuable assets.
  - DefaultUserHN 10y ago
    You're assuming that only gold diggers will take half your money when they divorce you. But that's not true. Under United States laws, all women will take half your money when they divorce you. Doesn't matter that they're gold diggers or not. And also, most women marries up (marry a guy who makes more than her), not down.
    - dpark 10y ago
      I'm not assuming anything. If you are worried about your spouse taking "your money", then don't marry someone who isn't bringing in a similar amount of money. It's not complex. This whining about women taking "your money" in a divorce is absurd. Get a prenup or marry someone with as much or more money. If you marry someone with less money (i.e. someone "marrying up") then you are knowingly "marrying down". Don't whine about fairness. This isn't a problem with the courts being "unfair" so much as a problem with people being petty.
      - DefaultUserHN 10y ago
        I agree. She doesn't have to be a gold digger to take half your money because the laws still applies regardless of her gold-digging status. The proper way to handle this is to marry some who makes the same or more than you.
        dpark 10y ago
        Or just accept that in a divorce, things will be split more or less equally in the absence of a prenup. I make more than my wife. If we got divorced, her getting half the assets would not be the biggest problem.
        DefaultUserHN 10y ago
        It's up to each person to decide what they find acceptable and act accordingly.
      - 10y ago