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Yes. I have been to Canada. People being similar does not equal laws being the same.
It doesn't upset me, it just boggles the mind. Seriously. Holy cow. I wonder if you're just being a T word at this point to get responses? Nobody can be that ignorant. Seriously nobody.
I never said Canada and the US have equal laws. I said that if Canadians overwhelmingly divorce early in the marriage, then Americans are likely to do the same.
I don't see why Americans should be totally different. The reasons why marriages fail in Canada or the US are approximately the same.
I never said Canada and the US have equal laws. I said that if Canadians overwhelmingly divorce early in the marriage, then Americans are likely to do the same.
I don't see why Americans should be totally different. The reasons why marriages fail in Canada or the US are approximately the same.
Yes somebody can be this ignorant. You are.
Why are you so concerned about the US when these issues don't affect you?
Did you hang around a lot of bitter Americans when you were here?
Do you have sympathy for the guy's wife? She was married to him for 12 years. He had no idea he had a child, and of course, neither did she. They have struggled financially all along, because they have a special needs child together. Now that they were hit with the $1200/mo forever garnishment, they decided it was better to divorce so that he will be ordered to pay child support to their special needs child. They had nothing left over for the special needs child at the end of the month after the garnishment. If they divorce, the $1200/mo to the adult child will be reduced because he now has two child support payments, and there will be more money for their special needs child together. Also, she will be eligible for a ton of public assistance as a "single mom", even though they will continue living together just as before in the same house, with the special needs child.
It is our crazed laws that cause people to have to make these choices.
Yes I do feel for her but I can't help but wonder if this guy knew and figured the kid was grown up so he wasn't liable. Now if the mom never told him that was wrong.
Btw I am not sure I asked before but have you heard of the cases where a new spouse is often stuck paying alimony? I was stunned and horrified to realize if I married a man paying child support or alimony they could go after me and if say he lost his job I could be liable. Creepy.
Yes I do feel for her but I can't help but wonder if this guy knew and figured the kid was grown up so he wasn't liable. Now if the mom never told him that was wrong.
Btw I am not sure I asked before but have you heard of the cases where a new spouse is often stuck paying alimony? I was stunned and horrified to realize if I married a man paying child support or alimony they could go after me and if say he lost his job I could be liable. Creepy.
If you ever marry a man who has ever screwed a woman, you can essentially be forced to pay child support for whatever child was produced, just like this woman was. Even if he honestly tells you he doesn't have any kids, child support can happen, because maybe he doesn't know of a child he fathered.
I guess your prospects are now limited to gay guys, or both 40 year old virgins still available.
Welcome to Family Law, USA, 2013. But its for the children, you know.
If you ever marry a man who has ever screwed a woman, you can essentially be forced to pay child support for whatever child was produced, just like this woman was. Even if he honestly tells you he doesn't have any kids, child support can happen, because maybe he doesn't know of a child he fathered.
I guess your prospects are now limited to gay guys, or both 40 year old virgins still available.
Welcome to Family Law, USA, 2013. But its for the children, you know.
Well to be fair any guy that has ever had intercourse without a condom has put himself deliberately in the position of fathering a child.
If you are a guy and you can 100% say you you've used a condom 100% of the time, then there I'd have more sympathy.
Well to be fair any guy that has ever had intercourse without a condom has put himself deliberately in the position of fathering a child.
If you are a guy and you can 100% say you you've used a condom 100% of the time, then there I'd have more sympathy.
So women have no responsibility in becoming pregnant?
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