Growth Industry to Come? Divorce Attorneys

[genxlib]

Not joking even a little bit.

We are about the find out how compatible many couples and families really are. The hopelessly optimistic around us are looking at this as an opportunity to bring their families closer. I truly hope it plays out that way but I just don't see how.

Most couples/families have a traditional amount of interpersonal contact that is baked into their relationships. Working outside the home combined with extracurricular activities gives lots of space to be individuals and yet enjoy the time you have with family. For many people, there is a sweet spot of +/-3 hours a day .

I don't believe that families are prepared for what is about to play out. 24 hours a day for months on end is going to strain the best of relationships. It could fracture the weakest one. Layer on top of that financial concerns and general heightened anxiety and it just seems explosive to me.

And that is only the couple dynamic. Add full time care for cooped up children and the strain will be magnified. Furthermore, the services that we often use to ease our lives will be less available: eating out, babysitting, house cleaning, etc.

It is going to be very difficult and I am afraid a lot of families won't make it. The worst part about it is that I see an inevitable increase in domestic violence and child abuse.

I hope I am wrong.

[Lithos]

1. Five industries are going to do well

Divorce Attorneys
Obstetricians
Plumbers (when TP runs out and people clog things up with substitutes)
DIY places - people are doing to fix their house up now they live in it more often
Kitchen supply companies - Cooking in more often

[Bev54]

7. Don't forget the daycares

That will be needed for the baby boom about to start 9 mos from now.

[lagomorph777]

21. Plumbers as people flush their gigantic hordes of toilet paper.

I mean seriously, what it their plan for all the TP?

[RockRaven]

2. Estate planning attorneys too.

As people start dying in large numbers, a) people without estate plans will realize they need one, and b) a lot of estates will be in probate.

[MANative]

3. I've been married for 38 years...

and you don't generally stay married that long without having a decent relationship. I'm an exec in a garment company in NYC - now working remotely. Hubby is a retail mgr whose store has closed for the foreseeable future. He's upstairs using the art supplies that I bought him for Christmas. I'm downstairs in my home office, so all is relatively calm. This morning, though, I bit his head off after he complained that he couldn't find something he wanted in the refrigerator. It's only been six days. I'll apologize and make him a nice dinner. Ugh.

[genxlib]

5. Indeed

The takeaway here is to be as kind and forgiving as humanly possible in a trying time.

Having enough space in your home to separate is an important factor. It will be worse in urban settings with small apartments and no yards.

I do think couples like you describe will endure.

[MANative]

9. Yup - big house, so that helps

He also needs a routine as I'm working 9 or 10 hours a day to keep our company afloat in this crazy environment (finally taking a short lunch/DU catch-up break now). Long walks in the neighborhood or time out on the deck when the weather improves will be critical to his mental health. I'd love for him to limit the amount of news he's watching, because it's clearly stressing him out more. One day at a time.

[lagomorph777]

22. I can say it's possible to be married that long in a terrible relationship.

People are saying.

[Baclava]

4. There are reports from China reporting exactly this, divorce applications spiking

[BamaRefugee]

6. Also bail bondsmen to get all the domestic violence peeps out of jail

[Whiskeytide]

8. Add Bankruptcy lawyers as well. n/t

[dalton99a]

10. Alcohol sales will go up

[lagomorph777]

23. Everclear is sold out. But that's really for disinfection.

The local booze shop has plenty of everything else.

[Jersey Devil]

11. Wouldn't touch a divorce case with a 10' pole

I am a lawyer and early on in my career made the mistake of handling some divorce cases. After being warned that an adverse spouse was coming after me with a gun and another threatened to blow up my house I stopped handling them altogether. Add to that seeing what kind of crazy, harmful things people do to poison their kids against the other spouse.

Give me a criminal case where the defendant is happy and thankful to get less jail time than he originally thought he'd get anytime. There would never be enough money to handle another divorce case.

[genxlib]

12. No doubt

I would find it poisonous to the soul to do that for a living.

Fortunately, I am not a lawyer so it isn't even an issue for me.

[Jersey Devil]

13. The worst thing was seeing how screwed up the kids were

I remember one mother who trained her kids to call their Daddy "sonmonbitch" when he came to pick up the kids for visitation.

[treestar]

16. Amen.

They call with huge crisis that the court would never bother with. They need to call the lawyer every time the ex says something unpleasant. They are convinced that the judge will see that the ex is the most horrible person in the world. When in reality the judge has heard it all before.

[Jersey Devil]

17. Yep, constant calls

One woman client used to complain her husband was a drunk (he wasn't). Poor guy, every time he took a nap (retired) she would line liquor bottles all over the place on the end tables and take his picture for "evidence".

[treestar]

18. Lol.

Yes the maxim seems to be that I will win if I just prove he is a bad guy. And you just know the opposing spouse has the same type of story.

[Jersey Devil]

19. Same woman had complaints about sex

She said her husband ignored her sexually. On cross examination in court she admitted that her husband had sex with her 3-4 times a week. btw, the hubby was about 68 yrs old and she was about 65. The judge turned to us and said maybe he ought to give the guy a medal instead of giving her a divorce. In response, the hubby introduced pics of the wife all dolled up in Victoria's Secret negligees that she used to parade around the house in and called her a sex maniac

[treestar]

20. Sounds like a crazy case!

[Totally Tunsie]

14. I queried about that last week:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213076815

Birth rate...divorce rate...murder rate - watch 'em climb.

[lindysalsagal]

15. Once again, I'm ahead of that curve

by 20 years