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Originally Posted by trumpethead
Explain to me how the government stuck their nose in your divorce proceedings. Beyond caring about your marital status with respect to taxation, I fail to see why the government would have any interest in your divorce.
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The Government runs the courts, do they not?
My divorce has to go through the courts, but only after we've been separated for a full year, which is the courts rule.
Luckily, the ex and I were on the same page, and did not have to get lawyers involved, and sit in courtrooms for hours on end to sort things out.
Still, I had to pay the Government to apply to get divorced, and far more than I had to pay to get a marriage license.
I then needed to fill out package, after package, after package of paper work, proving to them that we no longer wanted to be together, and how we were planning on dividing assets. Have all of this commissioned, and deliver it to the courts.
Now, it's sitting in a pile, waiting for a judge to review it, and decide if what we've chosen to do is acceptable or not, and either grant, or DENY, our divorce request.
The fact that a judge can decide wether or not we're allowed to get divorced, based on paperwork is ridiculous.
Like you said, why would the government have any interest in our divorce? But they certainly seem too want to dictate it.
To get married, we showed up at a registry, filled out a 1 sided form, paid a small fee, and could have gotten married right then and there. There was no application that a judge would review to decide if we were allowed to get married or not. No waiting period, no lawyers, no nothing, just a "Congrats, have fun!"
Why can't we just show up at a registry, fill out a one sided form, pay a small fee, and get a divorce decree? They let you make the decision to get married without intervening, but certainly ram their foot in there when you make the decision to end it.
Not to mention Common law relationships, where the partners have made the decision to not get married, the government decides otherwise for them, why is it any of their business?