The Unpleasant Side of Divorce
Getting married is entering into a contract – but it’s probably the one contract that is the easiest to break because divorce has made it easy for husband and wife to walk out when they go through an unhappy period in their life, albeit temporary.
John Crouch, Executive Director of Americans for Divorce
Reform, says that the most important economic contract of
our lives – marriage – is no longer legally protected.
Just think – lawyers will fight tooth and nail to protect corporations in their contract relations or between you and your landlord, your mechanic and your doctor, but can’t prevent you from breaking up with your spouse. In fact, they would even counsel you to break up your marriage and then discuss division of property as the next logical step.
Crouch says that marriage is the only contract that anyone can break, at any time, and not be held responsible for it.
“So getting married in America is like doing business in Russia. Everything is up for grabs, everything is constantly renegotiated, and nobody has to keep their word. I think that makes for a lot of unhappy marriages.”
The Dollar Costs of Divorce
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