Eturnalshift wrote:
My buddy's wife ended up cheating on him and sticking him with the house... only to come back later, forcing him to leave the house and move in with his brother. In a good faith effort, he would write her a check for 75% the mortgage and give it to her each month (since she was living there and they had to make payments still) but that twat just cashed the check and didn't pay the mortgage for over nine months. In addition to destroying both of their credit, she drained the joint bank account (before she left) and ran up all the credit cards, sticking him with the bill since everything was in his name.
They're now divorced and he's with some chick we used to go to high school with, so alls well that ends well... but C'est la vie, indeed.
You know - I was having this discussion with my buddy the other day. We both determined that if/when we get married, we will be making our respective spouses sign pre-nuptial agreements. I have many reasons for this - one of the biggest is that you never know what can happen in a marriage...after 10 years feelings could change, bad things could happen, and so on.
My mother left my father when I was 3, took the kids, and a damn huge chunk of his salary with her after the divorce. My buddy's father lost a house he had built with his own hands to his ex-wife.
The legal system in this country still heavily favors women when it comes to divorce proceedings (IE: My mother was given full custody of us, even though she didnt have a job and my father worked, and we basically lived in poverty because of it...but that's neither here nor there).
Not to only bash women...men can be just as untrustworthy. In this day and age, with divorce rates as high as they are...I don't see how I wouldn't want a pre-nup.
TL,DR: Married bros, single bros, whatever - what are your view points on pre-nups? Why does the legal system hate men so much when it comes to divorce? Are women really as money grubbing and bitchy as they seem to be....because I feel like all I hear are horror stories.