This book will focus on the rights each spouse has under certain laws, situations, and circumstances, and how the division of the property will be decided by the court or through negotiation.
=========================================================== jbar, you and I and anyone else who believes these laws are unfair and unjust need to write to our legislators and urge for reform. please do it! ===========================================================
That's a fine idea, but these people get letters like this all of the time, and basically ignore them. The problem, you see, is that these legislators are also attornies, many of them divorce lawyers, and benefit from the very laws which I am trying to reform.
They can be forced to straighten out and do the right thing, but it will take more than a few letters; it will take a massive, coordinated campaign against these laws, such that they will clearly smell the loss of votes if they fail to take action to change them.
As far as "equitable distribution" is concerned, I don't think that there is really a dime's worth of difference between this and community property. The only solution is to get rid of all property division which has anything, whatsoever, to do with the fact that a person is "married", with the exception of that pertaining to intestate inheritance. I have been trying to find an alternative to such abolition for years and, believe me, it is impossible. There is no way of compromising with evil.