"Heterosexual men are the ones whose ox is being gored"
Ron Garber knew his former wife was living with another woman — and had taken her last name — when he agreed to pay her $1,250 a month in alimony.
What he didn’t know was that the two women had registered with the state as domestic partners under a law that was supposed to mirror marriage law, Garber said.
State marriage laws say that alimony ends when the former spouse remarries, and Garber reasons he should be off the hook, given that domestic partnership is akin to marriage. But an Orange County judge has decided that registered partnership is cohabitation, not marriage, and that Garber must pay.
The reporter doesn’t ask Garber’s ex-wife the question I would ask: Why do you think you’re entitled to have your muffin and eat it, too? As a lawyer for Lambda Legal notes, this isn’t unequal treatment. “It is better treatment …”
And does the ex-wife’s new partner have no pride? She can’t provide for her woman?