Love Contracts to protect men from false rape allegations and child support

BedMonster · 2012-06-02T02:01:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure that at least in the US, you can't contract yourself out of child support payments regardless of what "contract" you had with the mother.

It's extra useless for rape allegations, because consent can be revoked at any time - so the fact that someone signed a contract agreeing to have sex doesn't mean that they couldn't revoke consent during - and that, again, is not a right you can just sign away. In fact, I don't know that a contract would even be valid with regards to initiating sex - because you can decide not to between the time you signed the contract and when you start having sex.

So....I think the idea is pretty bad, admittedly. It's at least misleading, and likely to do nothing other than give you a false sense of security.

The only thing that would serve you in these cases is to have a contract/waiver that agreed to video or audio recording, where both partners could be seen/heard giving firm verbal consent. Depending on what your local wiretapping laws are, you may not need permission for audio recording. Written contract though? Meaningless.

Edit: I will also say, reading the contracts you have up - there's no line for a witness signature. Having a contract that says "I, the undersigned, of sound mind and body, do give up all of my property and monies to X." means absolutely nothing in court, because I could have put a gun to your head and forced you to sign it. The purpose of having a witness is to attest that the signer was of sound mind and body, and to the witness' knowledge not coerced. So even ignoring the issue with a contract about consent, these would be completely invalid.

Title	Love Contracts to protect men from false rape allegations and child support
Author	roharareddit
Upvotes	4
Comments	1
Date	June 1, 2012 11:06 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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