Would divorce work better if allocation of matrimonial assets was done based on contributed labor?

[CopiousX]

Instead of a percentage share , what if the amount of labor by both spouses was quantified? Would this be fairer?




For example, most men can quantify their commitment with paystubs. But women , especially stay at home women would struggle in this regard.

However, even a stay at home wife is contributing childcare, shuttling kids, cooking, birthing of offspring, etc. Fortunately, these aren't abstract concepts. These are all services on the open market that can be quantified.

For example....

• a babysitter in your area can quantified as working at $16 an hour.
• A privare driver can be quantified at working at $20 an hour
• A surrogate mother can be quantified at $50k for the year of delivery
• A private cook (if your wife is a good one) can be quantified at $40 and hour or a line cook(if your wife is a mediocre cook) can be quantified at $15 per hour.
• Etc etc

There would be similar labor expenses of the husband too. For example yardwork can be quantified, fixing things as a handy man can be quantified, balancing books can be quantified, private security can be quantified, etc





In such a situation, I think a fair division of resources is doable. What do you think?

 

[ORDER_66]

how about no alimony if your ass is cheating and or you got the academics to take care of yourself...???

 

[USMaroon]

Nah, honestly 50/50 is the only fair way to go about it. Too many intangibles in a marriage to quantify everything. For ex: when one parent stays home with a sick child so the other can go to work: one partner taking care of things so the other is free to pursue another goal etc ... Keep what you personally brought with you to the marriage but everything after is mutually earned.

 

[CopiousX]

how about no alimony if your ass is cheating and or you got the academics to take care of yourself...???

So enforcing an at-fault divorce then? That's fair.


Arguably, such a thing would favor a woman greatly if a man cheats and she gets 100%. Though I do worry about the societal repercussions of this if the woman cheats , so man gets all the assets but this man can return to his full earning power a year or two after the divorce, yet a woman may be destitute due to kids or even sacrificed earning years. Imagine millions of such cases in a country as large as america


But what if nobody cheats ? Irreconcilable differences is a very common divorce reason.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

big words from a little "man"

 

[ORDER_66]

So enforcing an at-fault divorce then? That's fair.


Arguably, such a thing would favor a woman greatly if a man cheats and she gets 100%. Though I do worry about the societal repercussions of this if the woman cheats , so man gets all the assets but this man can return to his full earning power a year or two after the divorce, yet a woman may be destitute due to kids or even sacrificed earning years. Imagine millions of such cases in a country as large as america


But what if nobody cheats ? Irreconcilable differences is a very common divorce reason.

If no one cheats 50/50

 

[BaldingSoHard]

50/50 periodt.

That's what marriage is. All that dumb shyt that women need to hear you say in order to not be depressed and shyt... well all that shyt is legally binding.

Get married, brehs.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

How would you be able to even quantify that though?

 

[CopiousX]

How would you be able to even quantify that though?

Hourly rate of each task performed.

Fortunately, these aren't abstract concepts. These are all services on the open market that can be quantified.

For example....

• a babysitter in your area can quantified as working at $16 an hour.
• A privare driver can be quantified at working at $20 an hour
• A surrogate mother can be quantified at $50k for the year of delivery
• A private cook (if your wife is a good one) can be quantified at $40 and hour or a line cook(if your wife is a mediocre cook) can be quantified at $15 per hour.
• Etc etc

There would be similar labor expenses of the husband too. For example yardwork can be quantified, fixing things as a handy man can be quantified, balancing books can be quantified, private security can be quantified, literally building the home, etc

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

Divorce would work better if you get a prenup. Whole lot of brain power beimg used for an issue that's been had a tool to resolve it

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

IMO I think it would be better with a mediator versus lawyers.

 

[Rawtid]

50/50 periodt.

That's what marriage is. All that dumb shyt that women need to hear you say in order to not be depressed and shyt... well all that shyt is legally binding.

Get married, brehs.

50/50 is impossible in the case of a divorce, especially if the woman didn't work and specifically pertaining to parenting. The woman performs the same duties along with the expenses of maintaining a home. Getting a job means supplementing her time with services, which is a cost.

The man usually doesn't have the kids so his responsibilities don't change much, but they do and should become more expensive, as it should, because he still has to "replace" his contributions to his children, but now outside of the home.

I think well thought out pre-nups, when the couple is in the best place emotionally, is the best cure for allocation of matrimonial assets in the case of divorce. When people are mad at one another they become vindictive and petty. That's not the time to try and decide how to split the money.

 

[The Fade]

Equity over Ass, stop marrying bums with nothing to lose

They gotta be sexy on paper as well as sexy in real life

50/50 works, yall are not lords/lady's or dukes/duchesses or counts/countesses. Both genders of working class people were out in the fields working, unless they were wealthy land owners, then that shyt yall claim as "traditional" applied.

 

[SunZoo]

Marriages going back to being on a contract renewal basis every couple years...say maybe 2-5, it would nip a lot of this stupid shyt in the bud.

But then you can't pretend that it's some sort of divine decree from god and have to call it what it really is...a business transaction, you taking a lease out on a soverign soul. But at least you'd have the option to re-up or split with no issue.

 

[Shadow King]

Option 4, the threshold.