SEAJ
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5-12-2011 19:14 |
Reply #3 DArtagnan's post
Sorry - but Hong Kong laws do NOT specify 50-50. Are you perhaps thinking of No-fault states in the U.S. like California?
Hong Kong laws are based upon English common law and divorce laws are unfortunately the product of the English circumstances.
Common law states that the wife and children should be provided for BY THE HUSBAND after divorce in the same standard of living they enjoy whilst married - and this is based upon the rationale that if the husband does NOT provide this standard of living, that the STATE will be the one on the hook. Thus this particular evolution of the Divorce laws of the UK...and now Hong Kong.
What Common law also did NOT account for (in the over-riding need to protect the STATE against having to provide welfare etc to a divorced woman/family) are cases like the above where the "Law" OVER-PROVIDES for the wife. What - she can forego her "wifely duties" and the husband is legislated to still carry out his duties? Never mind that she was a solicitor herself - she is now NOT compulsed to ALSO contribute to the up-keep/well being of herself and the child>?
The Hong Kong laws really screw the husbands...without him getting his screwing!!
SSEAJ (Extra S for having been screwed myself in the past too!!)
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| doghead |
6-12-2011 10:09 |
Acceptance +1 |
Tht is why I live in a subdivided flat w/SO so she doesnt get spoiled. lol |
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