That's the problem. It's not even based on unpaid labor. There are courts assigning alimony to support porn addiction and other lifestyle factors. If it were based on unpaid labor, my wife would be paying me for all the high-rate mechanic, handyman, tech support, accounting, etc work. By getting married the lower earner is basically taking possession of your earning potential.
“You did the dishes most often according to these angry text messages, and also got to travel to Tuscany in luxury, so here is $800,000 for 10 years and if your ex has any disruption in income then they have to check themselves into jail, if they make more we can modify that amount upwards and assume their income never goes down”
If anyone thinks this is joking, my wife's father was in an accident and then a coma. Lost his job and obviously wasnt making money in a coma. Apparently the child support payments emptied his account. He was arrested for not paying. He then couldn't find any decent job with the arrest record.
My cynical guess is that if you argue that you did all these tasks, then the spouse will argue that it's part of their lifestyle to not handle that. That they will have to pay someone to do all that for them, and thus the breadwinner who did all that work should give them money to hire someone.
“You did the dishes most often according to these angry text messages, and also got to travel to Tuscany in luxury, so here is $800,000 for 10 years and if your ex has any disruption in income then they have to check themselves into jail, if they make more we can modify that amount upwards and assume their income never goes down”
If anyone thinks this is joking, my wife's father was in an accident and then a coma. Lost his job and obviously wasnt making money in a coma. Apparently the child support payments emptied his account. He was arrested for not paying. He then couldn't find any decent job with the arrest record.