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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…
Hey HN: (while we're discussing family law) someone please make a startup that improves adoptions and/or surrogacy. The fees are intense. $20k, 50k, 100k gets dropped left and right in this space. (Never underestimate the human drive to reproduce!) Most of that goes to agencies (who do good work, but incredibly inefficiently) and to foreign governments (if international). All to adopt kids that need a good home. Navi…
Its funny you say that, my wife and I recently went to a local adoption seminar and the entire time all I could think of was "Wow, this process seems incredibly broken and in need of some technology-based efficiencies" ... I think it would take a startup comprised of an existing agency + attorney(s) + hackers but I totally agree with you. Sprinkling some crowd-funding could also be possible here.
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 alo…
I was belittled, laughed at, threatened and completely farked over by my ex's lawyer. They drew out the process an incredible amount. Why? Because I was paying all of her legal fees.
Every single court appearance they had a different attorney show up - if they bothered to show up. I am still extremely bitter over the whole process and pray I never run into any of those lawyers in person on the street.
Nothing has made me so close to extreme actions as has those complete thieves. I still hold a special place in my heart for revenge against that company.
So, we have startups that help get people get together, startups that help people marry, and now startups that help through divorce. If I were an entrepreneur, I'd cut out the middle man and vertically integrate all three into one startup.
"integrate all three into one startup." What would be your tagline ? How about "no hassles marriage to divorce in 1 package." Then could price your service as: - Dating only - Marriage only - Dating & Marriage (value package) - Marriage and divorce (value package) - Dating,Marriage,Divorce (super value package)
it makes me sad that there's a business model for monetizing divorce. for the sake of humanity, I hope this company fails.
"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.
Nobody thinking "I'm gonna take the conniving, lying, cheating-ass bitch/bastard for everything she/he is worth!" would be trying to use this.
Hey HN: (while we're discussing family law) someone please make a startup that improves adoptions and/or surrogacy. The fees are intense. $20k, 50k, 100k gets dropped left and right in this space. (Never underestimate the human drive to reproduce!) Most of that goes to agencies (who do good work, but incredibly inefficiently) and to foreign governments (if international). All to adopt kids that need a good home. Navi…
Hey HN: (while we're discussing family law) someone please make a startup that improves adoptions and/or surrogacy. The fees are intense. $20k, 50k, 100k gets dropped left and right in this space. (Never underestimate the human drive to reproduce!) Most of that goes to agencies (who do good work, but incredibly inefficiently) and to foreign governments (if international). All to adopt kids that need a good home. Navi…
There could be something in a service to help with adoption profiles. There's a lot of parts to that process that could be facilitated. I also wonder if parts of the education process (eg several of the mandatory parenting, etc. classes) could be put online.
Hey HN: (while we're discussing family law) someone please make a startup that improves adoptions and/or surrogacy. The fees are intense. $20k, 50k, 100k gets dropped left and right in this space. (Never underestimate the human drive to reproduce!) Most of that goes to agencies (who do good work, but incredibly inefficiently) and to foreign governments (if international). All to adopt kids that need a good home. Navi…