Breach of Contract?

[Rollo Tomassi]

Should John Mason have filed a breach of contract suit against Jennifer Wilbanks and sought damages?

Runaway Bride Case

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

What exactly is your point rollo?

that men should be allowed to be just as irresponsible as women?

that the the governmental mommy and daddy should punish those that do bad things that we think they shouldn't do?

so what, some dude fukked up and got sued? Happens all the time.

so now you are worried about some girl that ran off, made up some story and got in trouble with the cops, and you are wondering if they guy should sue?

He should have done exactly what he did. He realized the girl was a loon and marry somebody else, thereby getting on with his life. It's too bad many people can't do the same, but thats their life, not mine.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

He should have done exactly what he did. He realized the girl was a loon and marry somebody else, thereby getting on with his life. It's too bad many people can't do the same, but thats their life, not mine.

So by this logic, the woman in the OP article should not have sued, nor had any claim to compensation, moved on and married someone else?

 

[Mr.Positive]

So by this logic, the woman in the OP article should not have sued, nor had any claim to compensation, moved on and married someone else?

Good call Rollo. It's time we stop accepting double standards like this.

Imagine what would have happened if the guy sued his runaway wife. After all, he probably shelled out a lot of money for the wedding preparations. The media, and all of society, would have made him look like a weak desperate loser.

Yet, this happens to a woman, and she's the victim entitled to some sympathy in the forms of big hefty payments, with the law on her side?

Wow. All because of gender.

It's good to have an open mind (and open eyes) to see through the fog. See the reality of the world we live in.

 

[englishman]

I'm not trying to say "evil women win again",

I'm not saying there evil cause there women, but clearly women have won again, there's no way a man could have pulled this off, myself I'm suprised by the number of men on here that think this guy got what he deserved?

 

[englishman]

Theres a big gender bias here, if it was the other way round the guy wouldn't likely have been awarded 150K.

what about women who lie to there husbands that a child is there's knowing full well that they f*cked some other guy and that the child is the other guys.

Is the question in the courts "should we sue this b1tch for lying to this man for all these years and having him pay for a child that is not his and then destroying him by telling him he has been lied to for years and the relationship he has with the child he loves is actually a fraud? ( I think I read that up to 20% of random DNA tested kids were not the fathers)

No the question is ' shall we make this man continue to pay for this child until the child is 18'
Women got away with murder and a lot of guys on here cant seem to see it because there to busy being 'real men' ??? I find it laughable.

 

[Bible_Belt]

I'm suprised by the number of men on here that think this guy got what he deserved?

I don't think 'he got what he deserved', fwiw. Although I see the merits of the legal claim - and this was good lawyering - I think the judgment amount should be reduced upon appeal; it likely will be. But my mind has been polluted by too much education, and they do everything they can to make law students stop thinking that way, so I cannot look at a legal case and think about who is morally right and wrong. If attorneys thought that way, then they'd have to turn away clients. There is almost always a valid legal argument to be found when there is enough money involved.

 

[englishman]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/aug/11/childrensservices.uknews

study on % of kids not really fathers

 

[STR8UP]

I just love how the feminist sympathizers come out of the woodwork to point fingers at the "bitter old men" who are simply calling attention to gender bias and double standards.

 

[STR8UP]

There is almost always a valid legal argument to be found when there is enough money involved.

'Nuff said.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

So by this logic, the woman in the OP article should not have sued, nor had any claim to compensation, moved on and married someone else?

There is no logic. Logic is a myth. Everyone gets away with whatever they can get away with, for what is best based on their situation, based on the best story they can convince themselves of and convince others.

Stop wasting time reading useless media stories and get on with your life.

There is no should.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

There is no logic. Logic is a myth.

Nuff said indeed.

 

[jophil28]

The central debate is surely whether a claim or recovery based on "detrimental reliance " on one party's promise or enticement is applicable within intimate relationships.
The court ruled that is does apply and awarded her damages accordingly.

I am wondering whether a man would succeed who had a similar claim against his fiancee who bailed out of a wedding at the last minute which cost him a packet.
This is a very real possibilty in middle age.
Somehow I think that the court would abandon him and the media would ridicule his claim.