FIDO Proposals

  There should be a cooling-off period during which a couple would be encouraged to obtain professional help. During this period the only permitted legal steps would be to ensure that both parties can survive appropriately given their financial circumstances. If at the end of that period one party still wants a divorce then so be it.

  Marriage should be "financially neutral" so that in the event of a divorce (after reasonable provision has been made for any children) both parties would be put in the state in which they could reasonably have hoped to be in the event that they had not got married.

  Pre-nuptial agreements should be made binding in the way that any commercial contract is binding (ie the courts uphold the contract unless it is overwhelmingly onerous but certainly do not arbitrarily rewrite it to make it "fairer" with the benefit of hindsight)

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