Stop Divorce - Why Divorce Isn't An Option
submitted: Sep 11th 2008 |
by: TraceyPierce
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Not a lot of people these days would care to save marriage. Most would just rather opt for divorce. These days, it seems to be the fashionable choice. Can't reconcile your differences? File for divorce! Been fighting all of a sudden? File for divorce. It's becoming like the answer to all marriage problems, the way back to paradise, and the only way out of problems. It's like everybody believes that after divorce, you'd have a painless, stress-free life.
But a divorce can't promise that. A divorce can't save marriage, let alone save a life. It's not a "promised land" as many people tend to think. One you look deeper into the process of divorce and it's after effect, you'd know that it isn't all it's set up to be.
Okay, let's look at it first in a financial perspective. A lot of people tend to overlook this area. They are too busy seeing it as a way out of stress that they forget about the financial aspect of a divorce.
Getting a divorce means losing a source of income. If, before your divorce, your household was living on two incomes, just think how it'd affect you know that you only have your income to live on. You think you won't be affected financially if your partner isn't working? Think again. If you're a man, you'd have financial responsibility over your wife. If not, you would have to live with the perk of having someone stay at home and take care of household responsibilities. You might have to hire a help, slashing a significant amount from your budget. And the worst part? Your conjugal assets will be divided between you two, subtracting a big amount from you.
On second thought, that was just the second to the worst part. The worst part is this: all the amount of money you're going to have t o waste on divorce. Do you know how horribly expensive petitioning and processing a divorce is? Lawyers get filthy rich with just one divorce case alone! They charge at an unbelievable hourly rate and that rate gets higher and higher each year. At that rate, the more you spend time dividing assets between each other, the lesser assets you're gonna have to divide!
A lot of people don't realize how much divorce could actually lower a standard of living and how much trying to save marriage could actually make living a whole lot better. When you think about it, only multi-millionaires could actually afford a divorce without getting financially thwarted. With the high price of divorce and the amount of income that could be subtracted from you, you might end up having to sell some of your properties. You might even have to end up renting because the mortgage would suddenly seem way too expensive. Not only that, but you might end up switching to a cheaper lifestyle too.
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Tracey Pierce is a team member of SaveMyMarriageToday.com.
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