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Thursday, September 23, 2010


Staying married is hard enough, but imagine how hard it would be if you had to keep up your divorce insurance every month?
WedLock, as it's coyly named, is a new type of casualty insurance that gives the unhappily married policyholder a payout after he or she is unhitched. It costs about $16 a month for every $1,250 of coverage. But to discourage people from signing up just prior to their divorce, policyholders must ante up for four years before the policy will pay out. It adds a premium of $250 per unit for every year the marriage survives beyond four. So if a policyholder who bought 10 units got divorced after 10 years, he or she would have handed over $19,188 and would receive a payout of $27,500.
Wow, what an abhorrent concept. And a crappy investment. That $160 a month would buy a lot of arsenic for his/her coffee.



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