[Days of Broken Arrows]

(09-15-2014 01:23 AM)Phoenix Wrote:  

Awesome.

But let me get this right.... Alimony was forever??? Alimony did not go down if unemployed???

I don't understand why anyone would ever sign up for such a contract. Seriously guy's help me understand this. It seems like a deliberate lifelong act of masocism to me, I cannot get my head around how this could have been the norm

Yes. Alimony was forever. I'm pretty sure it still is forever in California and some other places.

The reason guys sign up for it is simple: when you're young you don't think it'll happen to you. It's the same deal with thinking you'll be the one who can smoke and not get lung cancer, or you're the one who doesn't have to save for retirement because you'll strike it rich someday.

I don't know how to warn guys the odds aren't in their favor. It's probably human nature to think you'll be the one to survive when the storm hits, so to speak.