But where do those assets come from? If you own a house coming into the marriage or you inherit the house during the marriage, that's not marital property and is not subject to division of assets.
Any money earned during the course of the marriage, and things bought with that money, are split between the wife and the husband. If the house was yours before the marriage then it won't be subject to division.
The contract need not be explicit, but can be implied. So, if you are cohabitating and understand the relationship to be serious and long term, and your partner breaks up with you, you retain economic liability if you were the primary earner and had invested more heavily in joint assets.
In theory, you can get around the issue of palimony through a cohabitation agreement or a prenup. But as is the case with all US contracts, unconscionability is a problem. That is to say, if any provision of a contract is deemed unconscionable, the court has the authority to nullify it. Since the court has broad latitude in determining what crosses that ill-defined line, you have no assurance that your agreement will be upheld and provide you its intended protection.
Yeah but that's mostly because women tend to do more childcare and shit around the house. It's not like they eat 70% of the food and drive 70% of the cars.
It includes everything bought for themselves and for the household. Even though women do not earn most of that money, they make the decisions on how it is spent.
Women
make the decision in the purchases of 94% of home furnishings…92% of vacations…91% of homes… 60% of automobiles…51% of consumer electronics. Women also spend a lot of money on stuff like clothes, shoes, makeup etc. Men who refuse to let their wives make most decisions and spend a lot of their money are more likely to get divorced and to have marital problems.
But divorce-rape is pretty rare because on average men don't earn much more than women.
It sounds like you're confusing single men with married men. Married men earn much more than married women on average.
Most women are not even net tax payers. They're an economic drain, so either a husband, a father, or the state has to take care of them.
I'd say they're overstating the risks based on a few outliers and ignoring almost all marriages which end up with neither spouse much better or worse off.
Divorced men are usually worse off than divorced women. They have the highest suicide rate of any group, while divorced women are usually pretty happy.
