Spike in Divorce

@eladar said
So finding yourself means escape getting beat up. Gotcha

With reference to escaping getting beat up; whatever it takes....

@hakima said
With reference to escaping getting beat up; whatever it takes....

Leaving is easier if you are not married.

@eladar said
Leaving is easier if you are not married.

Based on what evidence?

@hakima said
Based on what evidence?

Based on you do not need a lawyer, just leave and disappear.

@eladar said
Based on you do not need a lawyer, just leave and disappear.

Married or not you can still lose half of what you have without a prenup. In many places if you lived with someone for a certain period of time, it is the same as if you were married.

-VR

@very-rusty said
Married or not you can still lose half of what you have without a prenup. In many places if you lived with someone for a certain period of time, it is the same as if you were married.

-VR

The government needs to do away with common law marriages. Gone are the days of young couples not being able to get martied due to lack of clergy.

But still know the laws and separate long enough to keep the government out of ypur bed.

@eladar said
The government needs to do away with common law marriages. Gone are the days of young couples not being able to get martied due to lack of clergy.

A law would need to be passed to get rid of common law marriages and I don't see that happening in the near future.

In Ontario, Canada, two people are considered common law if they have been continuously living together in a conjugal relationship for at least three years. If they have a child together by birth or adoption, then they only need to have been living together for one year.

-VR

@very-rusty said
A law would need to be passed to get rid of common law marriages and I don't see that happening in the near future.

In Ontario, Canada, two people are considered common law if they have been continuously living together in a conjugal relationship for at least three years. If they have a child together by birth or adoption, then they only need to have been living together for one year.

-VR

So live in another place for a few months.

Do you agree that the government needs to get out of a couple's bedroom?

@eladar said
Based on you do not need a lawyer, just leave and disappear.

You do not need a lawyer to divorce. I’ve done it 3X and never used one.

@hakima said
You do not need a lawyer to divorce. I’ve done it 3X and never used one.

So you were your own lawyer. You still had to go through the courts which you would not if you were never married.

@eladar said
So live in another place for a few months.

Do you agree that the government needs to get out of a couple's bedroom?

Reminds me of something Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Justin's dad said years ago the government shouldn't be in the bedrooms of the people.

“There is No Place for the State in the Bedrooms of the Nation”
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Quote from then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau when he introduced modernizing reforms to the Criminal Code1 in 1967 that decriminalized homosexual acts.

Trudeau’s phrase captured the zeitgeist of a new, more permissive era. It was a harbinger of progressive Canadian thinking on subjects of “morality” through subsequent years, and its sentiment runs through the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the early 1980s and the embrace of gay marriage in the early years of the 21st Century.

The phrase also helped launch Trudeau to political superstardom. It signalled a sharp generational shift in Canadian political leadership, away from Lester Pearson and John Diefenbaker, both born in the 19th Century. Further, it marked Trudeau as an edgy, iconoclastic and refreshingly sophisticated politician. Simply put, in one phrase, Trudeau signalled a generational change of guard and the dawn of a new era in Canadian politics.

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-VR

@eladar said
So you were your own lawyer. You still had to go through the courts which you would not if you were never married.

Technically no. Neither I nor my ex spouses are or were lawyers.

The court situation was no big deal.

For the record, I do not regret any of my marriages.

@Very-Rusty

So you are saying that if the government is going to be consistent it needs to do away with common law marriages.

@hakima

Did you escape eternal pregnancy?

@eladar said
@Very-Rusty

So you are saying that if the government is going to be consistent it needs to do away with common law marriages.

Not at all, they have no business in the bedrooms in a nut shell for you!

Common law marriages exist right across Canada to this day!

-VR