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Seems like a huge risk to marry someone when there is a big discrepancy in income and assets…
by throwawayarnty 5y ago
Seems like a huge risk to marry someone when there is a big discrepancy in income and assets…
- oblio 5y ago> never tried to better themselves, and who quit their low-skilled job to pursue an endless series of expensive hobby jobs(purse making, painting, selling weed edibles) I'd say this was the bigger risk. But as with everything, it's always hard to say for sure from a distance.
- dTal 5y agoIt's a huge risk because the system makes it a huge risk, that's exactly the point under discussion. An unseen negative effect of alimony laws is that wealthy people are less likely to marry "beneath their station", which promotes and entrenches social inequality.
- sokoloff 5y agoAlimony laws affect the lifestyles of the middle income earners, not the wealthy (who have ready access to legal advice). I doubt alimony is a significant contribution to assortive mating among the then-wealthy.
- throwawayarnty 5y agoI heard the actor Brendan Fraser got completely screwed by the alimony system. He was ordered to pay 50k a month (900k a year) for 10 years. Not even many wealthy would be able to handle that type of alimony.