If new divorce law passes, Montana is going to have a lot more felons

[Nevilledog]

https://dailymontanan.com/2023/02/09/if-new-divorce-law-passes-montana-is-going-to-have-a-lot-more-felons/

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Phalen’s adultery police would not only allow, but demand, that judges across the state start examining all the details of the feuding spouses’ most intimate aspects, their sex lives. These bills would mandate courts to hear even more of the lurid details of why marriages are breaking up.

For the divorcing couple, it would risk one of them losing everything at the slightest hint of infidelity; or force couples to stay together in dysfunctional relationships. In these measures, there don’t seem to be any winners, only losers – except for divorce attorneys, who continue to bill by the hour until the court has determined any sexual peccadilloes, if any.

Does the adultery require a physical act, or does jumping on an app or website count? These and more questions may be part of the future of Montana case law, if such an act were to pass.

Assuming that what Phalen is “just sayin’” is what he just means, the courts would then have to figure out how to prosecute the unfaithful spouse as a felon, which would seem to burden an already packed court calendar.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Lawyers pushing legislators for laws so they can feed off he-said-she-said?

Not only more felons, but more bankrupted felons.

[2naSalit]

9. Easier to...

Force into indentured servitude that way. Montana is the peachtree dish of christo-fascist legislation. Y'all better take notice and help us get rid of these fuckers next time around. I mean if we are over represented, it would be in the greater majority's interest to help us be rid of them, no?

[Ziggysmom]

19. I see what you did there, "Peachtree dish" LOL! Send in the gazpacho police!

[TheBlackAdder]

20. That sounds like future blackmail material and FAP material, but you nailed it.

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Most divorce attorneys look at a divorce as a one-time cash grab.

The more fighting that goes on will result in more legal fees. It just takes one lawyer to poke their client with a stick to get the acrimony inflamed. If you get two sleezy ones, they could provoke both parties until all of their household funds are depleted.

They will spend a thousand dollars to get a DVD copy of Shrek, when they could go to the store and buy it for $5.

If the couple have children, they are the ones that really get screwed over, as household wealth is now gone.

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[Artcatt]

21. The purpose of divorce laws is to

Destroy ordinary people while enriching the lawyer class.

[Warpy]

22. Naw, this one was written by the preachers

who, after 2000 years of abject failure, still think they can shame people out of sinning and the only sins worth mentioning are done with the genitals. I wish people would start catching a clue about those sickos.

[LakeArenal]

2. It seems to me that many politicians have a problem with fidelity.

Just sayin’.

[2naSalit]

10. Which is why it will likely fail.

They know who they are.

[Hortensis]

13. Exactly. Pass a law making their own adultery a FELONY?! And MORE:

Phalen: “Any unfaithful person should not get half in my humble opinion. Or anything,..." “There must be consequences for an unfaithful spouse, just sayin’!”

Yeah, like losing all their worldly goods, which they won't need while they're in jail at least.

I love when the RW extremists they've been electing make the news.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. IIRC, the Bible says you can cheat just by thinking about it...

the christofascist moral scolds have lost their fn minds and are running amok. MT and FL are leading the charge to theocracy.

Next up blasphemy laws....watch.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. They're obsessed with people's sex lives and genitalia

They want students to le their genitals be examined to play sports. They want to be in charge of what you do in the bedroom.

Just a disturbing party who is interested in controlling everything.

[Casady1]

5. Let's make it easy

stone them

[MagickMuffin]

6. These politicians sure are incredibly concerned about others sex lives

The bedroom police are back in business.

Maybe they should focus on their own lives not someone else’s.


Just think of all the republicons that have been divorced. Marge Traitor Green, comes to mind!


Bob Phalen sounds like a pervert. Tell me all about your sexual behaviors with your spouse! Please don’t leave out any of the juicy details. But don’t write anything down or then it’d be considered pornography!


Bob Phalen IS A PERVERT!

[2naSalit]

11. Always to deflect attention from their own crimes.

[BComplex]

7. Republicans have gone Total Taliban.

All of a sudden, we're back to the days of the Puritans. What was it the constitution said about separation of church and state?

[2naSalit]

12. Yup.

[getagrip_already]

8. a pertinent quote.....

a different snip...

Rep. Bob Phalen, R-Lindsay, believes that adultery in marriage should be a felony.

“Any unfaithful person should not get half in my humble opinion. Or anything,” he said while contemplating a bill that would allow judges to consider adultery in cases of divorce.

So infidelity will be a felony? If that applies to republican men, there will be a lot of felons just based on that. Yeah, non-republicans cheat as well, but it's the gop men passing the law.

[Chainfire]

14. There are no windows that Republicans don't want to peek into.

[Marthe48]

15. When incels get elected

Or perverts, or peeping toms.

[mgardener]

16. Under this

How many years would Trump have gotten?

[Rebl2]

17. Will this include everybody like the

Police, lawyers, judges, and state house members being investigated if they are getting divorced?

[Irish_Dem]

24. Of course not. The law protects them, and punishes everyone else.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. The Catholic Church & Scientology have just entered Montana's Family Court.

[Irish_Dem]

23. More men obsessed with everyone's sex lives.