We're not writing because something's gone wrong. We're writing because the legal systems haven't kept up with how people actually live now, and we want to be ready for whatever happens, together. We think you're the ones who could actually make that possible.
You already verify income. You already hold trust accounts. You already split payments under superannuation law that neither partner can cancel alone. You already know how to build something that just quietly works in the background of people's lives. We're not asking you to invent a new kind of institution. We're asking you to point what you already do at a problem that matters to us.
A Separation Income Guarantee: something that verifies both our incomes every month, and if we ever separate, keeps paying out the shares we agreed on while we still loved each other enough to be generous. No court. No renegotiating years later. No one left wondering if the other person will do the right thing.
We think you could offer this the way you already offer everything else that matters over a lifetime, quietly, reliably, and only when it's actually needed.
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