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This is pretty much how things are for me. To have someone prattling on about how worthless my relationship is just goes to show what their character is really like.

There is no problem at all. You have a problem. Not the law.

Straight defacto couples are completely different as they are not separate people? Wow. Your, ummm, "logic" continues to astound me. Read the family law act. S.90UA-UN. It deals with financial arrangements for the breakdown of defacto relationships. It does so in a similar way as for married...

How about medical breathroughs like open heart surgery? Organ transplants? Cochlear implants? Isn't that just playing with how nature was meant to be? If you have a heart attack, why mess with nature? It must just have been how nature was meant to be, with no intervention from modern...

Well, no. They're not. There is very little legal difference between marriage and defacto relationships. But the choice of whether or not to get married is between the couple themselves. It's not for me nor my partner, and we have made that choice not to get married at this point in our...

Why shouldn't a defacto partnership, that operates like a marriage, with both partners contributing, be it emotionally, economically, physically, whatever, not have the same legal standing as a marriage? Simple question. Just want some reasoning behind it.

I fundamentally disagree with this. I have lived with my partner for 4 years now. We share bills etc etc. We will be buying a house soon, together. She earns less than me right now as I am a few years ahead of her career wise, but soon she will have similar earning power to me. Neither...

Thanks for posting actual factual information rather than emotive rubbish. I'll look over this in the morning.

Have you got anything from a non-biased site? I don't go to PETA looking for an objective discussion about how safe and careful the meat industry is.

Indeed. Same here. I get a feeling it won't be revealed however. Just another one of those fabulous fantasies about how bad women are :rolleyes:

I can make up anecdotes to support my view as well! I agree with tobe. I'm out. With attitudes like this I am not surprised that people are getting divorced.

Got any cases that have that outcome? Or is it just a case of Chinese Whispers that happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of a cousin of yours?

Yep. Pretty much this. And if a man is desperate and stupid enough to get the equivalent of a mail order bride then I have no sympathy for him.

Whoops :o You know what I meant :D

A friend of mine recently divorced her husband. She's a lawyer, he's an artist who also looks after the kids. I don't know the split as percentage terms, but it would not have been any different to how splits where the mail earns more and has more assets. It's not based on gender. It's...

Kudos. Agree with that