The lack of a social safety net in the US is not something antiquated marriage laws should be misused to insufficiently provide. We need better general solutio

The lack of a social safety net in the US is not something antiquated marriage laws should be misused to insufficiently provide. We need better general solutions in this area, a lot of the separation-related problems would vanish. Job-separation and spouse-separation overlap substantially, and it's rather harmful as-is when spouses are incentivized to stay in abusive relationships if they wouldn't even receive significant support separated from an abusive deadbeat anyways. They become trapped.