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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you think the divorce-to-buy-another-house trend is too much?
I've been reading how people are lining up in droves to get divorced so that they can legally buy a second house. Do you think this is acceptable? I personally think it's an insult to the institution to marriage. These people have to get their priorities straight. I think they should ban them from being allowed to remarry after clearly abusing the system.
10 years 51 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
So are you saying they divorce, buy a second house and then re-marry ??
I have not heard of this to be honest
But yes i do agree its an insult to the institution of marriage.
Moonlake:
Yes, that's exactly what they're doing. I just read how one couple did this and the wife - who now has 2 houses under her name - is refusing to remarry her ex-husband and now he feels deceived. The problems in the world!
know a lady who divorced , paid and married a foreigner to have another child, divorced and remarried to first husband to have second child, father is the first husband but registered under the foreigner, signed an agreement for no support from the foreigner, the chinese lady of course is a lawyer.
lot of trouble to get around one child policy.
Unfortunately it happens. That and then there are the couples who already have conceived or had a child and refuse to marry just so they can get the right to a second house.
I read it few month ago. its terrible, what everything they do for money :(
As I come from a country where social benefits are plentiful, and distributed based on peoples needs, this sort of behavior is not new to me. Back home, people have been known to get a divorce/not get married, maintain false addresses away from their partner etc, in the name of milking the system for more money. (e.g. a single parent will get more per person, than a married couple with a child)
Is this acceptable to do in my home country ? Not really, I know of examples of family members snitching on their own family because social fraud is seen as wrong. I am pretty sure that would never happen in China, people who beat the system in the quest for the almighty dollar will probably just inspire those around them. Of course the social structure in China also means that typically family will benefit from family doing well, more so than it does in countries where family values are not based on an agricultural medieval society.
The topic at hand here is more about how the rules of a country are followed and how the rules of a country shape peoples behavior.
Oh, do I find it wrong to divorce to buy another apartment (or house as we say in China) It depends. The Chinese marriage is pretty much just paperwork and a ride around the city to show you got just enough money to rent a fleet of red Audi's for half a Tuesday afternoon. Is it wrong to break that in pursuit of acquiring more shit, not really. Did you at some point during the face gaining process promise your significant other to stay married until death, well, then you broke this promise, even if it is to get your significant other more stuff to leave behind after death.
Selling ones moral values for money is not that uncommon in China.
I think the problem is with the laws which so stringently attempt to dampen human effort and motivation, not with the way in which people choose to subvert them. I can easily see my loving parents getting a "divorce", if it meant my sister and I would have a better financial future. Just because you are lying to the state doesn't mean you are being dishonest with your loved ones.
Getting divorced to avoid taxes makes a little more sense than getting married to a guy to get a house. Marriage in China is big business.