Legal advice here

**Cronos Impera** · 06-25-2009, 10:09

Here is my advice for you.
You know from fammily and civil code that once you get married your wife instantly gains a decent chunk of your fortune and if she divorces you lose your home.
But here is a decent advice.
Before marriege, if you have any relatives you could trust (cousins, brothers, parents.....), dispose of your propriety to them (and I refer to your home), but mentain a legal copy of your original documents to prevent your wife from getting suspicious.
You'll pay the taxes associated with your property of course, and you will also need a mandate from your relatives to pay their taxes, so the IRS sends the bills to you.
When you get married, the future husband isn't demanded to list his assets by any legal code so far as I can tell.
The rest of the stuff you acquire (money, cars, other homes) get split 50-50, but that house remains yours de facto.

If she decides to change the locks, divorce and find a new boyfriend and may even obtain a restraining order for you, you can use your trump card and call your relative to evict her and your children from your property. If you did likewise with your bank account you'll also save your spendings.
The image of her getting evicted from your home...priceless. Obviously you'll lose everything you earned during your marriage to her through lawsuits but if you refuse to get a job and pay child support for a year or so, she'll probably raise the white flag and move on.
You remain in your home, enjoy the interest from your bank account and defeat her this way.

To confess, this tactic saved my uncle's fammily life.

**Fragony** · 06-25-2009, 10:14

Thanks for the advice but finding a chick willing to marry me is hard enough as it is

**CountArach** · 06-25-2009, 11:11

Originally Posted by Fragony

Thanks for the advice but finding a chick willing to marry me is hard enough as it is

What he said.

**Ja'chyra** · 06-25-2009, 11:26

Or get a pre-nup

**InsaneApache** · 06-25-2009, 12:33

I did it the other way. After Mrs. Apache MKI had taken me to the cleaners for the best part of thirty grand, I met Mrs. Apache MKII who had three businesses, a house and two cars. Trouble is I'm still with her after twenty years, so no pay out. Yet.

**Banquo's Ghost** · 06-25-2009, 12:44

Cronos, old fruit, with your very bleak perspective, the best advice would be not to get married at all - let alone have children.

**KukriKhan** · 06-25-2009, 13:14

My advice: take your time Lads. You're statistically gonna live to age 80+, so there's no need to hurry on getting married. And there's no shame in being a "40-year old virgin", no matter what Hollywood says.

Build a career, accumulate some experience, learn to be comfortable alone with yourself. That'll make you a more likely successful husband and father, and a man of the world who can better protect and provide for himself and his family.

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Or, do like I did: marry the first one who shows an interest, find out a couple years later that you don't really like each other very much, give her everything; find another one who shows any interest, mess up that one too, give her everything. Stop looking. Years later stumble over one whose company and conversation you really, truly enjoy. Hook up with that one.

Third times a charm, for me.

**Kralizec** · 06-25-2009, 20:54

The scheme in the OP would only make sense if you have more faith that your relative won't screw you over than you have hope that your marriage will last. Just marry under a prenuptial agreement- perfectly normal and doesn't depend on deceiving your spouse. Or alternatively, don't marry at all.

To be honest I can't imagine myself marrying a woman who has no education or job skills and would be financially dependent on me even if we decide to break up, but maybe that's just me.

**rory_20_uk** · 06-25-2009, 21:13

Originally Posted by Kralizec

To be honest I can't imagine myself marrying a woman who has no education or job skills and would be financially dependent on me even if we decide to break up, but maybe that's just me.

In a word: Children.

So, she's sacrificed her career for your kids. If they're dumb you might argue that chucky cheese was as good as it was going to get. She argues she was going to be a chief exec then you're going to be paying a lot of cash.

**Kralizec** · 06-25-2009, 21:22

I wouldn't ask my wife to dump her career for kids. I imagine that I'd work for 3 or 4 days per week and that she'd do the same.

It would be different if one of us made over twice as much as the other, but assuming that I won't have trouble finding work after I graduate from college I'll be earning far above minimum wage. And as I've implied before I can't imagine myself marrying someone who flunked out of high school and is doomed to earning just that for a living.

**rory_20_uk** · 06-25-2009, 21:25

Most high flying jobs don't equate 50% of the hours with 50% of the career - more like career stagnation. If you want to get a job in the Civil Service or whatever you are more likely to succeed, but else it really is all or nothing.

**Kralizec** · 06-25-2009, 21:35

That's a fair point, though I don't know if it applies to my future profession as much as others (lawyer, not civil servant)

Regardless, there are examples of countries where both spouses generally continue their respective careers. Like Norway, where the solution is day care - practicly an industry there.
(Or Japan, where the solution is to simply not have any children)