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Actually, I've been told by someone who deals with this a lot that it often is all fine and dandy between ex partners. They mutually agree on how to split things and things are friendly enough... until one of them finds a new partner. The new partners often stir things up... "you deserve a...

What a well balanced, sensible post. Kudos to you. I'm amazed at the bitterness and one-sidedness from some of the members here... and the attitudes they will be passing onto their children (girls and boys).

The court would not award 70-80% to ANYBODY, man or woman who "brings nothing, contributes nothing, earns nothing and gets a free ride for ten years". Or are you saying that marrying somebody, deciding together to have a child or children, and then staying home to be a wife and mother...

Like I've said before, ask any woman the stories she knows and ask any man the stories he knows, and the answer will be slanted towards women or men, because women hear the stories about their friends who have been left shortchanged and men hear the stories about men who have been taken to the...

What a silly statement. I didn't ask if you thought he was a "decent parent". I asked if you thought he was meeting his child support obligations?

Yes, this chap is meeting his child support obligations. That comes to about $20 per week because he has so much stashed away, and he lost his business but can afford $650 per week rent. So, in the eyes of the law, he is doing the right thing and he forms part of that 80% "good bloke" statistic...

So far you haven't come close to proving me wrong. I apparently cannot use my own observations to prove my point, but you can? I'm happy to say there are men AND women who do the wrong thing, but in your opinion that is wrong. Personally, I don't know any men who have been "screwed"...

Ummm.... don't think so. Whatever you reckon though.

Sounds like you chose the wrong girl. Did you not recognise a "spender" or were you bedazzled by her? Don't blame anybody but yourself.

When your inheritance has been deposited into your joint account and your husband cleans it out before going broke, that is the same thing.

You have some issues, clearly.

I would have a guess that men know men who have been financially shafted and women know women who have been financially shafted. I'd guess it would be pretty much evenly split.

Thanks Ideo for your post. You know, as a happily married woman, I have seen the devastation of a few friends who are left in their 40s with kids to support, not much hope of ever earning more than a low(ish) salary due to having had children and stayed home with them for a few years, and then...

A friend of mine invested 20 years of her life to a man who took her grandmother's inheritance, put it into his failing business, asked her to guarantee that loan, verbally bullied her and the kids but not physically, just emotionally, lost his business, she left and is paying rent, he pays $20...

Oh please...!!! :rolleyes:

Surely you could find some more sweeping generalizations about women than these :rolleyes:.