Jail Becomes Home for Husband Stuck With Lifetime Alimony

Re:Jail Becomes Home for Husband Stuck With Lifetime Alimony by jongraehl on Monday August 26, 2013 @09:27PM (#6280910)

There was a story recently about this happening to a woman (a soldier who was only momentarily earning 90k/yr for hazard pay) recently with about the same result. Retarded law, retarded idea - child custody as a meal ticket. Although if this case is just about alimony, that's even worse.

Anyway, the particulars of this person's struggle don't matter. The default marriage contract is stupid and it seems you can get into bad situations that might not even be possible with a non-marriage contract; don't go into a marriage blind.

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Re:Jail Becomes Home for Husband Stuck With Lifetime Alimony by jlgreco on Monday August 26, 2013 @09:39PM (#6280951)

> The default marriage contract is stupid and it seems you can get into bad situations that might not even be possible with a non-marriage contract; don't go into a marriage blind.

In a handful of states it may be possible to accidentally find yourself in a common law marriage. Common law marriage requires that both parties want to be married, but that can become a "he said, she said" issue in a courtroom.

Thankfully I believe this is a relatively rare issue and as I said earlier, only a few states support the concept at all anymore.

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