Zzor: For obvious reasons,you defend men alot,my regards to your good husband,you and my mom are just among the few lucky women.
Hahahahahahaahaahaha @ 'I defend men a lot.'
I don't defend any sex, I look at individual cases on their merit and carry on from there. Defending a sex would mean subjective analysis when issues crop up because I NEED to defend the side I am on.
I am always on the side of objectivity hence I have been called misogynist, a man hater, feminist, anti-feminist etc.
networkrecharg: Section 136 of the Criminal Law of Lagos state, 2015 provides that any person who commits any act of gross indecency with another person in public commits an offence and liable on conviction to 3 years imprisonment.
MrBrownJay1: He didn't spend on her, he changed her life entirely, thus because they were common law husband and wife, she can now claim to be accustomed to such lifestyle, and desire to continue living like that. If the man was broke and she was the only one working and taking care of the dude, then the man could sue and ask for the exact same spousal support.
The marriage refusal is irrelevant since the man kept being with her this whole time, and whether they are married or not, the law is the same.
Not at all....even if the woman did absolutely NOTHING, she is still entitled to spousal support in order to continue living the lifestyle she has been made accustomed to by this man. You are confusing spousal support with a settlement to get half of what a husband made during marriage. Different ball game. She doesn't want half of what he made during their union, she just wants to be able to continue living the lifestyle she is accustomed to (thanks to this man)
I think it is fair as everyone knows the law... And any fool who thinks it is ok to have a lazy spouse at home while using money to put them in a certain lifestyle, while that spouse does absolutely nothing, shouldn't/cannot drop them at the snap of their fingers. Stay in your lane instead of trying to change desperate people's lives
Simple common sense would fix such issue....have your woman WORK, Have her contribute to whatever lifestyle you guys are into, have her PAY for such lifestyle, if you are rich and bring some poor woman to your life then within 6 months you have to make a life decision: keep her around and possibly have to pay her spousal support OR get rid of her (or have no paper trail that would link your life to hers)
Having read your other posts on this thread, I understand your perspective.
Learn the rules of engagement for romantic relationships and play the game to win.
The idea of common-law partnerships/marriages would usually make sense when you consider these criteria that should be met: – Having child(ren) together – Living together/shared accommodation continuously, not intermittently. – Shared ownership of property – Shared bills/addresses on IDs
If the two persons in the OP had all of this, the court judgment would honestly make more sense to anyone considering that they had built a life together but simply did not take marital vows – spousal support here would be very understandable.
But what happened between those two was nothing more than boyfriend and girlfriend matter, none of the usual criteria for CLM were met. So is that judge not mad like this...
Let's wait and see.
Remember in this case, there is no grounds for common law marriage.
mutter: You are absolutely correct with that assumption. Assuming no issues like I'll health, loss of loved ones and the like occur. But as you get older you start getting dependent on people. Part two will soon be uploaded.. Advice to daughters in law. I think they need to understand that their husband's don't divorce their mothers to marry them.
Ok, drop here.
@Mariangeles: A woman/man is not to depend on their children for emotional fulfillment, that is one of the markers of a failed/absent relationship with the spouse.
Have you thought that you don't have MIL/Son-in-law issues; does it mean mothers don't invest in their daughters to start boundary sharing in her martial home?
LadySarah: Women who are busy have less time for drama.
My mum is very busy with herself that she hardly visits any of us except Omugwo. As she is coming she is telling you her departure date which will never exceed 3 weeks.
I like her style and will adopt it cos she says she doesn't have strength for anybodys drama or Dil/sil gossips.If you miss her so much come and visit her.
Th rest is that there is peace for everyone. Most of all these brouhaha stems from one party claiming over interference.
OlawaleBammie: See forget the men fighting the useless law, am happy for them after all they are the one who created the law. Or are u telling me it's only women who enacted the law??
See let be radical with this thought, if women are enjoying the law now they should not forget that they have male siblings and of course A MALE CHILD who will also share from the cake
So live them to it and let dem face the muzik demselves
In this life if all u know is self-centredness, creating a demon den don't forget the demon Wil one day directly or indirectly torture u. More reason am lafin at buhary and his cohorts for the unnecessary law they are making thinking the Wil be in power for life..lol
emkz: I was unfortunate to be in a relationship with someone back home but we never quite got to the marital union. She calculated my earnings, deducted the costs of my rent, fuel and feeding, and requested I sent her the rest. She wanted to spend it on a lavish lifestyle to impress people and on her new relationship since I wasn't around. She was housing a man in a space I paid for and was trying to extort me (person wey I never marry oh). Imagine marrying such and taking her abroad. Na tears.
Well sha, I cut the relationship off because she was working at cross-purposes with me and teamed up with her boyfriend to deceive and extort me. She then promised to make my life miserable.
I am no longer abroad, but if I were, I'd marry a lady there, prepare a water-tight prenup and discuss the terms of disengagement should it ever come to that. That we are in a relationship does not mean I should be paying you for the rest of my life once the relationship ends. And except it is a woman whom you have been with for long and grew together in the relationship or someone you already married at home and she is still loyal to your vows as you can verify, I wouldn't advise any man to go and use his hand to carry a Nigerian-educated unexposed and ill-exposed girl and take her abroad for any reason. If you were Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Latino, Indian or Pakistani, I'd have advised you differently. But there is something fundamentally wrong with the African mind and I still can't dissect it.