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What law? Isaac Send a noteboard - 30/09/2010 07:49:59 PM
Normally I'd take as a given it existed but considering the source I'd kinda want an actual copy of the law with analysis form a third party saying so.

However, keep in mind that a lot of old laws discussing alimony are only discussing women because we just didn't have a mental concept for men getting money form their ex-wives. So a lot of alimony laws revolved around whether or not a woman could get it and often said 'well, if she had an affair, no, hell, its her new guy's job to support her, you can't go asking the guy she put horns on for cash' and so they tended to be one-sided because they were based off an existing double standard. I'd like to see the text of such a law he voted for before accepting that as a given, and I'm not really seeing a problem here, men, generally speaking, do not get alimony, they pay it, adultery's a pretty good basis for the court to tell a lady to take her alimony demands and shove them. In our era of no-fault divorces and equal gender right the concept of alimony (but not child support) is pretty weird anyway. Most divorces, pre-90's, (and IIRC the convenant marriage thing he worked on was in 1990), involved the husband paying alimony unless she specifically did something wrong, and oftne even then, so it wouldn't really matter what he'd done. "Hey Maam, you're getting divorced, and the good news is you won't pay alimony, $0 in alimony, but you have photos of your husband with his secretary, and that means you won't pay in alimony, half your previous payment of $0." "Hurrah" Says she.
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Scuzziest politcal ad of the season... so far - 29/09/2010 08:06:19 PM 1210 Views
You think that's worse than Renee Elmer's one in North Carolina? - 29/09/2010 08:38:30 PM 1205 Views
you may not like her position but it isn't a blatant lie - 29/09/2010 08:47:44 PM 864 Views
Yes, much - 29/09/2010 08:55:38 PM 842 Views
The ad didn't make me cringe, but the interview afterward certainly did - 29/09/2010 09:07:06 PM 818 Views
Yeah... oh dear, this is painful. - 29/09/2010 09:37:26 PM 799 Views
I'm with the other people responding. - 29/09/2010 09:18:50 PM 877 Views
The bad news he will lose in November - 29/09/2010 08:42:22 PM 800 Views
His name is Daniel Webster. That is awesome *NM* - 29/09/2010 09:02:15 PM 393 Views
To be fair... - 29/09/2010 11:59:33 PM 912 Views
What little I found in the time I had... - 30/09/2010 04:02:51 AM 922 Views
Why should a woman get alimony for cheating on her husband? - 30/09/2010 05:23:03 AM 817 Views
Because the law in question only eliminated it for women. - 30/09/2010 05:27:12 AM 1215 Views
What law? - 30/09/2010 07:49:59 PM 906 Views
Shedding a little light on the "Law" in question. - 01/10/2010 12:40:00 AM 949 Views
You can argue almost any position but that doesn’t make it right - 30/09/2010 08:17:03 PM 936 Views
Poor life choices? - 30/09/2010 09:46:14 PM 891 Views
I did say in rare case they deserve limited alimony - 30/09/2010 10:47:39 PM 930 Views
I'm not saying that alimony should be very high, of course. - 30/09/2010 11:27:08 PM 829 Views
This is why I hate politics. *NM* - 30/09/2010 12:11:08 AM 382 Views
Pathetic. *NM* - 30/09/2010 12:25:52 AM 398 Views
I like how he disabled comments for the video. Pussy. *NM* - 30/09/2010 06:40:57 AM 394 Views

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