Conventional wisdom rules: if a woman marries a man who gets rich and then they divorce, the court will act as if she earned half of all their property herself, even if all she did was sit at home and watch tv, eat, and shop.
That’s not the image they use to sell it to you though– that image is the hard-working, loyal, dedicated mom, producing children, raising them, changing their diapers, attending parent-teacher interviews, while that cad of a husband goes gallivanting around having sex with other women. Tiger Woods.
There is a portion of this kind of judgment that is not really based on any sound principle of justice, but on the repugnance some people feel for fornicators and adulterers. So she takes him “to the cleaners”. Even though this is established practice, feminists would like to have you believe that women still get ripped off in this arrangement. They are not embarrassed by the fact that he, through dedication, ingenuity, determination, and sacrifice, was able to command a good income.
On the other hand, more likely he got hired by someone he knew, and promoted because he was white and congenial and a good drinking buddy.
Let’s also consider just how stupid a man like Tiger Woods is to marry anybody. Why oh why oh why, if he wants to have sex with many different women, would he bother to marry any of them?
Never mind.
[2011-07]