I have a friend who married by civil registry, it cost her and her hubby $20 thirty years ago. She separated from her ex twenty years ago because he got a native underage girl pregnant. All these years there was no desire to get a divorce as she has had no intention of remarrying. Recently there was a prospective boy friend. Finally she sued for a divorce, he turned nasty and refused to sign. The cost of a no fault divorce would have cost her below $3,000. But since he contested, a second court appearance would cost her $2,000 more.
I thought that was exorbitant, then a neighbor told me that she paid 15,000 Singaporean dollars for her divorce. Even that was a reduced rate, as a nasty divorce with some custody argument could easily go up to S$40,000. I gasped and wonder if that is why youngsters choose to co-habit and not say I do. Imagine one could marry in haste: after all any Mary, Jane and Margie could dig out $20 to tie the knot. But until one saves up enough dough, matrimony is a chain that takes lots of money to unlock.
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