Family law is now the ugliest, dirtiest, messiest part of law I've ever seen.
I mean, just getting married is hard enough, what with the essential requirements, the licences and stuff like that. And if the guy you married just up and left and disappeared one day, if you can't find him after seven year, you can get a "Presumption of Death" thing and he'll be presumed dead. Weeeeeeird.
Then you get into Divorce.
Then you get into really ugly divorces of traditional nuclear families with the stay at home mom and two kids.
Where the mom is really pissed off at the dad because she gave up her future, her education, and her ambition to stay at home and support him, with the expectation he'd always be there.
Except ten years later he isn't. And she's got nothing to go on, no education, no work experience, and she's in her thirties. And she suddenly finds herself on her own with the kids (because for some reaso, the kids almost always go to the mother) with no money and no way of making money.
And he, of course, doesn't want to support her and those kids forever.
And it's just really messy. and ugly. and dirty.
kitsune_rei05 · Sun May 01, 2005 @ 03:44am · 0 Comments |