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Re:SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a po... by antisthenes on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @03:46PM (#16010917)
> If I were his wife, I would seriously consider leaving him over this. Walk, with "his" assets that were always his-and-hers

People like you are exactly why people want to sign pre-nups in the first place.

> He made a financial agreement with his wife to share 50-50. That's what a marriage is, it's a legally binding contract.

If it was always clearly cut as a 50-50 split set in stone, there would be no need for as many divorce lawyers.

> And he wants to alter the terms of the deal now, as a post-nup? After years of partnership? Oh hell no.

People want to alter the terms of the deal all the time, a divorce is usually one of those alterations, most frequently initiated by women. After years of partnership. Why this is surprising to anyone is beyond me. Is it really that different in California?

You are correct in one thing though - he probably shouldn't have gotten married to begin with.

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Re:SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a po... by dang on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:27PM (#16011949)
> People like you

Taking HN threads into personal attack is a sure way to make a flamewar worse. Please have the self-control to resist this when commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a po... by lostmsu on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @04:59PM (#16018402)
Isn't he just being factual though? The comment he replied to was also a personal attack of sorts on the husband from the story.
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Re:SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a po... by dang on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:27PM (#16019593)
"Just being factual" isn't a valid defense. Even if one assumes 100% factiness, that's not all that matters. There are infinitely many facts. Which one chooses, how one expresses them, and what their likely effect is in context, are just three of the other issues at play.

As for the GP comment, I can see why it would feel that way but I didn't read it that way myself. There's obviously a lot of interpretation involved in these things.

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Re:SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a po... by antisthenes on Thursday December 28, 2017 @01:52PM (#16023990)
The mod is right, I could have phrased it better.
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