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Originally Posted by About_Time
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The problem with spousal is that there are no such guidelines. ...
Because of this, SS payers can get bitter about the whole thing.
If she refuses to be self-supporting in the future, Family Law will ensure that I continue to support her laziness for an indeterminate amount of time. That's the law, but that's not fair.
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If you are suggesting that enforced guildelines for SS similar to CS would be different than what you state above, then I think you are wrong.
SSAG is a lead into an enforced SS formula and it ties the two together in their future financially giving the receiver less incentive to work hard than a single person - that is what I don't like about SSAG - it treats your incomes (and the work that goes into it) as a shared thing, which to me is marriage and is the opposite of divorce!
When you divorce you should be completely done with the other person in all ways, including financial. This is not to say that SS is not warranted or a fair thing, but that SS should be based on what happened in the marriage, NOT what happens after.
And a one size fits all formula for what happened in the marriage is perhaps very hard to come up with - so I would be wary about formulized SS (though in my case it works, and I am not talking about SSAG (NDI splitting = yuck))