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Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by danilocampos »

eksith wrote: post #25

Really? This is what it's come down to? Parenting and separation via day-planner. No wonder so many of my friends aren't getting married. A common law marriage is likely to last a lot longer these days since, well, it's not common law unless you've been together for a while. Sometimes years. This is also another reason why parents who ignore their children's feelings when getting a divorce are a bunch of inconsiderat…

I'm not sure that this is the best venue for pearl clutching or preaching.

What's known is that a substantial number of marriages do end in divorce. These divorces are extremely painful and expensive. The reasons for divorce might be as varied as the number of people getting them, but the procedures involved are rarely unique.

So all of that is an obvious recipe for disrupting an existing industry and printing money in the process. Good on them.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by eksith »

danilocampos wrote: post #31
eksith wrote: post #25

Really? This is what it's come down to? Parenting and separation via day-planner. No wonder so many of my friends aren't getting married. A common law marriage is likely to last a lot longer these days since, well, it's not common law unless you've been together for a while. Sometimes years. This is also another reason why parents who ignore their children's feelings when getting a divorce are a bunch of inconsiderat…

I'm not sure that this is the best venue for pearl clutching or preaching. What's known is that a substantial number of marriages do end in divorce. These divorces are extremely painful and expensive. The reasons for divorce might be as varied as the number of people getting them, but the procedures involved are rarely unique. So all of that is an obvious recipe for disrupting an existing industry and printing money…

I just don't believe in marriage as an institution; especially when it's such a farce for so many people to begin with. Kicking this sacred cow has consequences so my feeling is, let's not make it sacred. If consenting adults want to do whatever, let them do whatever.

I've got no problem with anyone who wants to get divorced if there are no children involved since that kind of breakup (no matter how smooth people try to make it) will have negative consequences.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by evolve2k »

seeingfurther wrote: post #3

This is ridiculously hard problem to solve and the likelihood of Wevorce succeeding is very low (as in all startups). But man... it's refreshing whenever I see SV funding large hard to solve problems. It's not all me too ideas, bloated valuations, social network XYZ with zero business models as the press might make it seem much of the time.

Acctually i saw the opposite, a startup drives traction from addressing a pain point and there is a big easy target here, make the process suck less. I would say just by cutting out two opposing lawyers this will instantly be more successful based on just the collaborative start alone.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by anateus »

Mods, wefunder, whomever: the similarity of your names is making people think this is the home page of Wevorce rather than an article about the founder and company. Either make it clear at the top of the article page, or in the title here.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by curiousdannii »

mnicole wrote: post #8

This is petty compared to the purpose of the startup, but the typography/use of ligatures on the site is fantastic.

I thought the opposite -- the ligatures seem like they're supposed to make the company look fancy, but when combined with the photos of the founders I just felt creeped out.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by [deleted] »

eksith wrote: post #25

Really? This is what it's come down to? Parenting and separation via day-planner. No wonder so many of my friends aren't getting married. A common law marriage is likely to last a lot longer these days since, well, it's not common law unless you've been together for a while. Sometimes years. This is also another reason why parents who ignore their children's feelings when getting a divorce are a bunch of inconsiderat…

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Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by danilocampos »

eksith wrote: post #32
danilocampos wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure that this is the best venue for pearl clutching or preaching. What's known is that a substantial number of marriages do end in divorce. These divorces are extremely painful and expensive. The reasons for divorce might be as varied as the number of people getting them, but the procedures involved are rarely unique. So all of that is an obvious recipe for disrupting an existing industry and printing money…

I just don't believe in marriage as an institution; especially when it's such a farce for so many people to begin with. Kicking this sacred cow has consequences so my feeling is, let's not make it sacred. If consenting adults want to do whatever, let them do whatever. I've got no problem with anyone who wants to get divorced if there are no children involved since that kind of breakup (no matter how smooth people try…

I agree entirely that marriage, especially with its cultural underpinnings of extravagance and expense, is just so much bullshit.

But it's there in huge numbers, people do it for all the wrong reasons, and there's no obvious way out of that for a few decades. So in the meantime I'm going to celebrate anyone who can unwind the miseries of people subjected to this nonsense. Keeping people out of court is very much a good thing.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by liber8 »

I enjoyed how her profile danced around Wevorce's raison d'etre, without actually coming out and saying it: acrimonious divorces are fueled (or created entirely) by lawyers.

As a lawyer with many colleagues practicing family law, I don't think this is terribly fair. Divorces are acrimonious because the overwhelming majority of divorcees have fundamental issues with their spouse that they can't even verbalize, let alone work out. The underlying feelings that trigger the explosive fights about nothing (think toilet seats or dishes in the sink) are only magnified when blame for failure of the marriage and the dividing of assets/children comes into play. In other words: divorce is acrimonious because people going through divorce literally go crazy.

I would bet Wevorce is successful because it integrates counseling/communication into the divorce process, something that is basically prohibited when both sides are represented by counsel. That alone sounds like a substantial improvement.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by whalesalad »

eksith wrote: post #25

Really? This is what it's come down to? Parenting and separation via day-planner. No wonder so many of my friends aren't getting married. A common law marriage is likely to last a lot longer these days since, well, it's not common law unless you've been together for a while. Sometimes years. This is also another reason why parents who ignore their children's feelings when getting a divorce are a bunch of inconsiderat…

I can't stand hearing this kind of fud. My parents divorced when I was ten. My dad was accused of being abusive. He may or may not have been, I'm not sure on all the details. Regardless, I turned out fine. I had to go to court. I had to talk to police at random intervals. I could only see my dad a few times a month for a few hours, or every other weekend. They were strange circumstances. But this bullshit about stay together for the kids is complete horseshit. Are you fucking kidding me? I'm livid.

My father has since remarried and is extremely happy with his wife and my two little half sisters. My other sister and I are doing great. I'm starting a company in Sweden and my sister is about to finish her bachelors from USC. My mom is doing great and just adopted a new puppy. Everyone is happy and the shit show is over.

Alternatively had they stayed together... There would have been MOUNTAINS upon mountains of resentment inside of our household. Fuuuuuuuck that no thank you. Kids are tough. They grow up and will be fine if they are loved and supported by their family members... Regardless of whether or not they were divorced.

This bullshit excuse that divorce damages and gives a kid post traumatic stress is false. As we all know most marriages in America end in divorce, so I have a lot of friends with divorced parents. They're all fine. I've never sat with any of them and pouted or wept over my life.

Correlation does not prove causation.

Re: Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

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Post by Pinatubo »

avolcano wrote: post #11

"Wevorce is already having success. While living in Idaho, Michelle ran a beta test. She put 104 families through the system and only one went to court." This was the part that was most surprising to me. That's an incredibly good success rate (albiet with a small test) for something that's trying to mediate such a polarized situation. All it takes is either party not being satisfied with what they got to push it to c…

Careful: there's also a self-selection effect here. Only those couples who have a fairly good chance at a somewhat amicable separation would even try a service like this. Wevorce would probably have a much lower success rate with 104 randomly selected families going through divorce.
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