Everyone heard of golddiggers and how they marry someone rich then get divorced to get half of everything. Why is this allowed/normal?
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The laws were written in a time when we had what is now considered a more traditional view on marridge. The concept was that a man and women got married and he got a job to make money for the household and she worked equally hard maintaining the home and supporting her husbond. And with this view it makes perfect sense why the assets should be split half way in a divorce. The husbond should not be able to hold his wifes earnings hostage.
You could maybe change the laws to better reflect modern views on marridge. A lot of people take matters into their own hands and sign a prenup which is a contract that say what should happen in the case of a divorce which is signed before the marridge takes place. This way it is possible to keep assets you made before marridge out of a divorce settlement.
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