What is the difference between a wife and a girlfriend in terms of law and legal rights for women?

Question

It nowhere states that a woman should change her last name after marrige but give her the power to gobble the property of the husband and the kids?

How is that for gender equality???

Answer 1

A wife is a totalitarian; a girlfriend, a rollicking good time!

Answer 2

a wife can control their husbands because their existence in your life is through the hands of the law and the church.. but girlfriends ' right is just to make love with you..caring for you is just your conscience duty..

Answer 3

A man can gobble up the property of the wife just as well.

Answer 4

um... not sure what your rants about... are you mad that a women doesn't have to take the mans name, but she can take a portion of income and share visitation with the children? if that's the case... sounds fair to me.

mutters... wifeys can offer a good time too, they just do it for one guy!

Answer 5

A wife has a right to half your property, a girlfriend just takes it

Answer 6

When it comes to legal right the girlfriend has nothing. It just right that the wife should split their property that they acumulate during their marriage. If the husband has some brain the  wife"" can not gobble the property and the kids "" That is why there is  legal court to settle things on divorce. whatcha talkin about???

Answer 7

The law does acknowledge that people can have long term, interdependent relationships without having to take on another person's name, yes.

And the laws regarding the dissolution of a common law relationship as opposed to a legal marriage are sometimes different depending on where you live.  (Sometimes they are quite similar however)  I linked a Wikipedia article to illustrate that point.

Answer 8

A wife gets half of everything you own if you get divorced

a girlfriend gets squat   if she leaves

Answer 9

The difference between a wife vs. a G.F. is the same difference as a man getting raped by an inmate in prison (which would be the GF experience) vs. Being gang raped by 12 guys. Your just going to get $#%@ harder if your married then get divorced - (or in this example gang raped).

Answer 10

The money issue is more about who has more not gender. A woman who makes more than her her husband will probably have to pay alamony if it is determined that the husband cannot continue on in the lifestyle to which he has become acustomed by himself.