Exactly!
Yep, Legal, The divorce industry in this country has been estimated as being around 96 billion a year. If you have money you can get anything you want from the courts. It amazes me, at the lack of professional ethics and the complete disregard that some lawyers and Judges exhibit in court rooms. I have never been able to understand the spousal support laws. I guess it is because I have never taken charity from anyone or unemployment benefits and I find the concept a little bit sickening.I also find the concept of subsidizing anyones income at the expense of another to be socialistic and should not be allowed in a capitalistic country. It is to close to taxation without representation. (if you know what I mean).
What I find harder than anything else to understand, is the attitude of the legal community when asked questions of why something like this is allowed to go on. It seems that if you ask questions and state opinions, the legal community
gets very defensive and the first thing that comes out is,its not the fault of the lawyers and Judges its YOUR fault for not fighting for your rights. Without fail that has been the opinion of everyone I have talked to in the court system, but for some reason, they forget or discount the fact that I had no money, and no assets, and to use the proBono crap, you have to live in the state where the so-called hearings are being held. Its certainly not taken
into consideration that YOU HAVE NO MONEY!
There is one other factor here that I find very interesting, and that is, that the state where the hearing took place, has two methods of payment of alimony. One method is direct to the recepient, and the other is through the county clerks office. Now most of the alimony payments go through the clerks office and they would have you believe that this is so they can monitor the court ordered payments. But in looking at the small print in their instructions sheet, there is a tiny statement that at my age is very difficult to read, that says that the county clerks office will charge you a 3% surcharge on alimony payments. Supposedly, this is to cover the cost of administration. Now I ask you....who is kidding who here??
Lets see....humm, if I paid 500.00 a month, for 12 months of the year, for the rest of my ex's life (or until some poor SOB marries her), I wonder how much money the clerk and the county is making off me???? And oh yea, there are probably quite a few payments coming in to this office, seems to be a very lucrative business they have going there.
If it was my business, I think I would be looking for all the alimony money I could get....wouldn't you?
So when the members of the legal community get on their self-rightous high horses, about how our is the best system in the world. And it may have some flaws but it does work, and if you have a bad experience with the system, it is usually because you didnt stand up for your rights, and hire a good attorney ( and there is the key to what they are saying, HIRE, a good attorney), I simply dont buy it.
The system was designed to protect EVERY americans constitutional rights. And Judges are charged with making sure those rights are NOT VIOLATED in a court of law.
The saying that comes to mind here is " When the rights of one citizen are violated, ALL citizens should be offended".
That saying is as important today as it was in 1776.
