Why it's fair to divide everything 50-50 in divorce

"It's Our Money, Honey!" - Tamara Shayne Kagel, Esq. on Huffington Post.

"...My feeling about marriage is that once you enter into it, you are no longer doing anything alone. The sum is greater than the two parts and so it's not a husband who earns money and then shares it with his wife. Rather, the marriage is earning the money all along. Once married, the breadwinner is not earning that money by himself. He is enabled by the other spouse. ..."

Comments

[Pedro]

Probably good that this women's subjective feelings on the matter are not the law. Divorce should not be an economic ladder for gold-diggers or anyone that contributes nothing to a marriage but debt, infidelity, drama and betrayal. No-fault divorce has turned marriage into an empty contract that rewards betrayal, deceit and vindictiveness. The presumption of "primary caretaker" full custody, inflated child support and 50% of the assets (not counting everything handed over to not disrupt the child) create huge incentives for divorce. I understand divorce attorneys generally like things that increase the likelyhood of divorces happening and of them being acrimonious (such as making child support so high that losing custody drastically changes your financial future,) but the marriage contract has been so devalued that any honest attorney should feel ethically compelled to strongly warn the demographics most at risk of having their lives destroyed by a failed marriage.