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PT6A posted:Well, of course. But if the law is designed around a supposition that someone would lower their own standard of living just to spite their lower-earning ex, then it seems advisable to also design it around the supposition that a spouse might use it out of sheer greed and spite to control their higher-earning ex. Here's a list of things that matter! It's almost as if the people who do this for a living have thought about this in detail, and might have more advanced ideas than you or I could spitball on the fly. http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fl-df/spousal-epoux/ss-pae.html fe: apparently every Family Law page has a Quick Escape button that dumps you back at Google. That's some good work Justice Department.
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Number19 posted:In your hypothetical it could go a lot of ways and there's no real way for me to predict the outcome because I'm not familiar enough with the case law. I'd imagine that it would come down to the quality of lawyers involved. Fair enough, I'd probably agree. I'm not actually concerned about it, it's just curious to think about what would happen, if I'd made a few different choices through my 20s, so baseless conjecture is perfectly acceptable! I guess the real lesson is: don't marry a lunatic, so whatever goes wrong, you can hopefully come to a reasonable and amicable agreement in the event of divorce.
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Some former spouses will use support payments and money in general as a way to exert control over their ex. They will gently caress with the timing, the amount, cause little disputes, etc. It's not about the actual money, but about controlling the other person. PT6A, this really isn't an argument you can be making if you haven't been involved in one of these or have had a close friend or relative who has been hosed over by a vindictive ex. The poo poo that gets done is brutal and unfortunately in family law justice is expensive to pursue. A lot of people just give up which I feel is terrible. e: governments should provide a LOT more money for family law legal aid. There are so many people (mostly women) who are coming out of abusive relationships with nothing and have very little recourse with which to get proper help.
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Number19 posted:Some former spouses will use support payments and money in general as a way to exert control over their ex. They will gently caress with the timing, the amount, cause little disputes, etc. It's not about the actual money, but about controlling the other person. Agreed 100% on the family law legal aid part. The penalties for willful noncompliance should also be very severe, to avoid people purposely doing bullshit as a form of control. e: The one really dysfunctional relationship I've seen involves a higher-earning wife and a controlling, verbally abusive husband who would absolutely be the petty rear end in a top hat in the event of divorce, who would almost certainly throw a fit if his ex decided to take a sabbatical from work or something like that, so I'd hope that the court would be balanced in terms of deciding who's acting in good faith, not simply looking at who makes more money. PT6A fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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PT6A posted:Agreed 100% on the family law legal aid part. They are, but again, it's hard to get justice without a competent family lawyer. You can represent yourself but the amount of work you have to do is large and a lot of newly single people don't have the time or money to go about it. They need to focus on living first.
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PT6A posted:Exactly this. Provided that assets are divided equally, and the payer of support does not hide income, then if payments are made on the basis of actual, present income, aren't the two households roughly equal? Spousal payments don’t have to result in an equal lifestyle, especially not indefinitely; it’s the result of a negotiation, as is division of assets. Someone might opt to give up some assets in order to alter the spousal support payments. There are a bunch of models for it. Child support is intended to provide equalization, but in isolation sometimes doesn’t. It’s not something you can negotiate; there’s a table you use or your divorce application gets bounced. THE BEATWEAVER posted:Huh, I could have sworn you are one of the most offensively rich goons on the forums thanks to your silicon valley bullshit and would have no problems paying child support regardless of income. Guess who is exactly as offensively rich as me. We mutually impute investment income based on divided assets, so that me deciding to buy a vacation property or (indeed) give 1/4 of my net worth to charity doesn’t penalize her in terms of relative income. She can live without it as much as I could continue to pay it, but since we’re in otherwise identical financial circumstances she felt it was appropriate that given $0 income the spousal support should be $0 as well. I don’t think she actually spends the support I pay her at this point, because she can live off her investment income. I’m sure she’d appreciate you looking out for her though. PT6A posted:I guess the real lesson is: don't marry a lunatic, so whatever goes wrong, you can hopefully come to a reasonable and amicable agreement in the event of divorce. Yes, I highly recommend this. Subjunctive fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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quote:Vancouver’s empty-homes tax to rake in $30-million in first year; many properties exempted
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Cold on a Cob posted:Two things that can drive people into full-spite mode for some reason: paying/receiving alimony and paying their taxes. a friend of mine drove his 3 series into a lake rather than let his wife get it in the divorce
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the talent deficit posted:a friend of mine drove his 3 series into a lake rather than let his wife get it in the divorce That seems like a well-thought-out strategy.
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Great use case for cryptocurrency.
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Cold on a Cob posted:https://www.thestar.com/business/real_estate/2018/04/12/torontos-housing-bubble-cost-sellers-136-million-report.html My mom was pushing to buy something for me to live in (not own) in the new downtown neighbourhood of Yaletown for $100k in the mid 90s when I was ~15. Dad said nah. That small place would be worth $600k+ now.
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Femtosecond posted:The NPA is insinuating that Vancouver city council is corrupt, presumably giving sweetheart deals to favoured developers. I don't really like the way community amenity contributions are handled, but I haven't seen any substantial hint of city council favouring certain developers. Link an article if you know of an issue I'm missing. this is from a few pages back but this article just surfaced on my Twitter feed: https://globalnews.ca/news/3910790/vancouver-onni-rentals/ to say nothing of the bullshit around the Concord Pacific lands. Meanwhile, the province is now going to allow cities to establish rental-only zoning, as well as attempting to get better reporting on pre-sale flips: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rental-only-zoning-1.4633273 quote:The other bill amends the Real Estate Development Marketing Act, forcing real estate developers to report when a condo unit is flipped prior to the completion of construction, and allowing the Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate to investigate if there is evidence that such information is not being disclosed. Majuju fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Number19 posted:e: governments should provide a LOT more money for family law legal aid. There are so many people (mostly women) who are coming out of abusive relationships with nothing and have very little recourse with which to get proper help. nationalize the lawyers
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I wonder how much of a reduction in single parents using social services we would see if the government put more money and effort into making sure support is assigned and paid properly
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Poor single mothers can't donate much to politicians so I guess we'll never know!
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New housing legislation introduced in BC: - Giving municipalities the ability to zone for rentals including rezoning already existing rentals to prevent demolitions - Requiring developers to collect and report condo presale buyer info - Increased (by more than 10x) penalties for undisclosed presale flips
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Holy shhhiiiit the gears are in motion for my condo sale. Starting at the low low price of like 200% what we paid. And even then it's positioned for a bidding war. Condo market is absolutely bananas right now, even as houses are slowing. Some idiot bought a similar place near us for $560k. It would've been $250k two years ago. On the other hand, an idiot sold their deceased mom's place in our building for $50,000 less than he could've got, and that'll gently caress us somewhat. UnfortunateSexFart fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:On the other hand, an idiot sold their deceased mom's place in our building for $50,000 less than he could've got, and that'll gently caress us somewhat. That selfish bastard! Have you considered that he probably did it just to spite you and your fellow condo owners? The nerve of his mother to just die like that, too!
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I know, those assholes. My equittyyyy!!! But seriously I may need to live off it for over a year so lots of money would be nice.
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Majuju posted:this is from a few pages back but this article just surfaced on my Twitter feed: Yeah this is what I mean when I said how you look at a few of these cases around extra density for community amenity contributions (CACs) and you really wonder if the city got the best value. I don't know if this corruption over simple stupidity. I recognize that Vision really badly wanted to create rental housing instead of condos, and they deserve some merit for that, but clearly in certain locations it wasn't going to result in affordable housing. "Market rental" in the rich part of downtown is obviously going to be expensive, so diverting CACs toward this in this area was a bad idea. It would have been better to take the CACs and put it toward something else. Here's another article about the moves the BC NDP made today. The rental zoning is a big deal and Vision has been asking for this for a long time. If applied correctly rental zoning could cool some of the land speculation that has taken place in the last few years.
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Baron Harkonnen for the new Dune film is looking pretty good.
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MEANWHILE AT THE B.C. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ....B.C. government to give cities power to create rental-only zoning, cracks down on presale flipping posted:Local governments in B.C. could soon have the power to zone areas for rental housing. edit: gently caress beaten by thc
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Math You posted:Because they can. Certain models sell like loving hot cakes. If you already have production shortages of a particular model, why offer cheap financing?
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rgocs posted:Incidentally, just heard on the morning News: Ford is scrapping all their sedan production. Will only keep producing Mustangs and trucks. The Youth don't want Fiestas or Fusions anyway, all of the fresh college grads I know are lusting after things like the HR-V or whatever the godawful Toyota tiny crossover, the C-HR. They'll probably eat up the Ford Ecosport (SUV-ed Fiesta).
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The EcoSport is actually pretty nice, I'm not buying anything that's not hybrid or electric for my next car though. Pretty sure I am buying a Rav4 next year.
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Ford getting out of cars seems remarkable, but inevitable given that SUV buying has become a sort of arms race as everyone buys bigger and bigger vehicles to protect themselves from other drivers' bigger and bigger vehicles. Meanwhile trucks are 3x more likely to kill pedestrians than cars. In B20 news... https://twitter.com/SteveSaretsky/status/989196769035669504
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rgocs posted:Incidentally, just heard on the morning News: Ford is scrapping all their sedan production. Will only keep producing Mustangs and trucks. Laaaame. My twelve-year-old Focus hatchback is still going strong, and my local dealership is easy to deal with. Whenever mine kicks the bucket I was hoping to get another one.
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Coxswain Balls posted:Laaaame. My twelve-year-old Focus hatchback is still going strong, and my local dealership is easy to deal with. Whenever mine kicks the bucket I was hoping to get another one. I am 100% certain that Japanese and European manufacturers will continue to make them.
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Avocadoes are incompatible with mortgages. Also I potted up my avocadoes and put them outside. Started from seeds and they’re now 2-3’.
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Thought this said "Can you own your mortgage? Yes" but I guess that's still in the pipeline
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cowofwar posted:Also I potted up my avocadoes and put them outside. Started from seeds and they’re now 2-3’. Playing the long game eh? quote:Sometimes avocado plants will begin growing fruit after they’re 3 or 4 years old, others take 15+ years to grow fruit, and some never do. It helps to have several avocado trees growing together to aid with pollination. However, don’t expect the fruit to be anything like the avocado that yielded your seed.
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The Butcher posted:Playing the long game eh?
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Never thought I'd see the day when I could own a home and eat food prepared outside of said home. Y'know, maybe this capitalism thing is okay after all.
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Lobok posted:Never thought I'd see the day when I could own a home and eat food prepared outside of said home. Y'know, maybe this capitalism thing is okay after all. I'm glad you've seen the light. Now sign this paper and owe us $500k paid back over the next 30 years at a reasonable* interest rate and we will give you $500 cash to go blow on a nice dinner. Because you're richer than you think.
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Coxswain Balls posted:Laaaame. My twelve-year-old Focus hatchback is still going strong, and my local dealership is easy to deal with. Whenever mine kicks the bucket I was hoping to get another one. They are keeping the Focus as well. It's the Fiesta, Fusion, Cmax, and Taurus being scrapped. Which leaves the Mustang and Focus.
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The new Fiesta would have probably sold better if they had bothered to fix the problem of the transmission randomly falling apart. The rest of their cars other than the Focus really are boring crapmobiles that nobody wants.
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Math You posted:They are keeping the Focus as well. It's the Fiesta, Fusion, Cmax, and Taurus being scrapped. Which leaves the Mustang and Focus. The Focus is becoming the Focus Active (a "crossover-ified" version of the Focus; think Subaru Crosstrek) and won't be sold in Canada. quote:“The car segment in Canada has been declining steadily since 2012 and now makes up just 33 percent of the overall market,” [Ford Canada PR person] Hollander said. “Going in the other direction, SUV and crossover sales have been growing steadily since 2012 and now account for about 44 percent of all vehicle sales in Canada. And that trend of car sales declining as more consumers choose SUVs is expected to continue. So, we are focusing our efforts on vehicles customers prefer.” Hope you like Mustangs as much as a certain other Canagoon does. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/04/hilarious-canadians-cant-even-buy-focus-active-fords-new-plan/
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The Focus is becoming the Focus Active (a "crossover-ified" version of the Focus; think Subaru Crosstrek) and won't be sold in Canada. I sold the Mustang, I drive a respectable European hatchback now.
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