| RavenBlog |
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| Comments on Monday 17 March 2003: |
| It turns out that Maryland's divorce laws are stupid (you have to have lived in separate residences for a year in order to get a no-fault divorce). This shouldn't really come as any surprise. The most functional alternative solutions I could find were these two: 1. To establish sufficient residency in Nevada (which would require renting somewhere for over 6 weeks); not very functional. 2. To get a special divorce in the Dominican Republic. It's actually called a special divorce. That can apparently be done in 24 hours, and is binding in a few American states and pretty much everywhere that isn't America, as well as sufficiently valid even in the stupid American states that it'd hold so long as nobody contests it. Not only that, but it also only requires one of us to show up for the five-minute court appearance, so long as sufficient documents are taken along. So, we're going with that - hoorah, third-world-divorce. Hoorah for America being stupid enough that we have to do it that way. This, of course, is why we pay taxes. [00:35] |
| The Dritex |
| What else would taxes be used for. They're obviously not used to pay our corrupt government officials, who only care about squeezing money out of us. Of course, we don't have to pay the taxes, we just get to go sit in a jail where we get punished with a warm shelter, full cable television, 3 healthy meals a day, and stocked libraries where you can get a decent education. Hooray for the US and all our greedy ways to squeeze all the money we can get out of people. |
| C. Copperpot |
| I'm going to rob a bank so that I can watch Spongebob Squarepants, I'm too poor to afford Cable TV on my own. |
| kyrin |
| I heard that nevada also has some pretty resonable and quick divorce laws. I'm not certain that would be better than Dominican republic, but it may be closer. |
| RavenBlack |
| Nevada was option one, there. |
| Solistus |
| I find it rather amusing that Nevada, the driveby wedding state has the most tuned divorce process in the country. Sigh. I wonder if you can get broadband in Federal prison... sounds like a promising career. |