Same here. I would love to have kids, and would be a great dad. However, I will never participate in a system that will gladly take my kids, my house, and half of my retirement savings just to give them to a cheating whore who decided she was bored in the relationship and decided she wants to use the power of the state to destroy me.
Make sure you know the Common Law marriage laws for your area before shacking up with someone. Even if you don’t say “I do,” Uncle Sam might say it for you.
Not when there are kids involved. The lack of parental rights by default is the problem, and there is no way to avoid it, outside of surrogacy or adoption.
There's a ton legal liabilities that come with cohabitation, even without kids. They just vary by state a lot more than the ones that come with marriage and kids. The biggest problem is that she can claim common law marriage to drag you into divorce court. If your plan relies on a divorce court judge ruling against a woman you need a different plan.
Same here. I would love to have kids, and would be a great dad. However, I will never participate in a system that will gladly take my kids, my house, and half of my retirement savings just to give them to a cheating whore who decided she was bored in the relationship and decided she wants to use the power of the state to destroy me.
Just don't get married -- you can live together endlessly and not have any legal obligations when it's time to bounce
Make sure you know the Common Law marriage laws for your area before shacking up with someone. Even if you don’t say “I do,” Uncle Sam might say it for you.
Not when there are kids involved. The lack of parental rights by default is the problem, and there is no way to avoid it, outside of surrogacy or adoption.
There's a ton legal liabilities that come with cohabitation, even without kids. They just vary by state a lot more than the ones that come with marriage and kids. The biggest problem is that she can claim common law marriage to drag you into divorce court. If your plan relies on a divorce court judge ruling against a woman you need a different plan.