Social media is all a flutter over the impending divorce and custody case of The View's Sheri Shepard and Lamar Sally. Sally filed for legal separation and shortly thereafter filed for not only divorce, but custody of the child that is currently unborn and being carried by a surrogate mother. By getting custody he will likely receive (and rightly so, I might add) child support. Many women are calling foul. He is just some gold digger after her money.
Apparently they did sign a prenup and in case of divorce in the first five years of marriage (they have only been married about three years) he gets very little of her income or assets. But this is something that happens all the time with women who marry successful men who have assets and money that are larger than their own. Women file for divorce and expect large sums of money in spousal support. I know a man who is divorced and his former wife wanted monthly spousal support, the house, the kids, as well as child support. They made virtually the same income so why would he have to pay spousal support? In the end she didn't get spousal support, but she did get everything else she asked for and then went off to start a new life with the man she cheated with.
If women are looking for equal treatment, than this should actually be celebrated not mocked. She knew he made less money than her when she married him. She knew she had assets that greatly exceeded his. This was a choice that she made. No one forced her down the aisle.
I get really tired of hearing from women that all they want is be treated equally to men then have the nerve to call foul when that is exactly what happens. Women marry for money all the time. We have seen it over and over again. When the marriage ends, they expect large amounts of cash from the guy to continue the "lifestyle they have become accustomed" to. Look at some of these celebrity/sports divorces and the very large settlements that women get. Yet, that isn't what we are hearing in this case:
“In Sally’s case he is pathetic and not what I would classify as a MAN! Where is his damn money? She made her money now he wants hers. Spousal support, he is a punk!”
I didn't hear women saying things like that when Elin Woods left Tiger and received a large settlement. Granted he was cheating on her (and yes that is an understatement for his behavior), but in most states divorce is no fault, so that doesn't matter. When Jerry Hall divorced Mick Jagger she is estimated at getting $25 million, this is a woman who had a very successful modeling career and made her own money. She was far from a pauper.
This is equality folks. Divorce is ugly and money almost always becomes an issue. Whomever the main breadwinner is the other spouse is going to be looking to get their hands on it. If women want true equality stop complaining that men who marry, then divorce women, who are more well off than them are doing the same thing that women have been doing for generations. This is exactly what feminism has called for.
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