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Of course. A husband and wife can contract away from the default 50/50 split. Many do this pre-marriage, but it can be done during the marriage as well. With a few rare exceptions, they could agree to any form of split of assets they want. Of course, both parties would have to be agreeable.

What the **** did I just read? When someone says "it's the law" it doesn't mean they necessarily support it. You may need to sit down for this, but your typical citizen doesn't get to CHOOSE the laws that apply to them. There are laws in place decided by others, and until those laws are...

Inheritance is one of the exceptions, it is generally not marital property. It becomes marital property if you co-mingle it with marital property though. So, for example, if you inherit 100k while married and keep it in a separate bank account it will be non-marital and 100% yours if you...

Lol! Same here, bro.

I hear you, man, and it obviously isn't a solution that plays out fairly to all parties in all situations. But states like Florida chose to take the easy-to-determine route and just make all property earned while married be marital property and split 50/50. Fair or not, it just is what it is...

Correct. In an equitable distribution state, any property obtained while married is considered marital property and each spouse has a right to 50%. No other analysis is done, pure 50/50 to each party. I was just explaining the public policy behind why that is. It isn't a matter of who...

Whether you agree with it or not, the concept behind marital property is not that the spouse contributed at all to the business. The logic behind it is that if the other spouse wasn't taking care of everything else like the house and kids, etc, then they wouldn't have had the time to invest into...