A child s parent is responsible for his or her health and welfare, not just the mother. The male breadwinner concept is replaced with primary wage earner. An example of shared partnership in practice is the concept of community property. Eight states, including Washington, are community property states. In these states, the wife and husband have equal rights to manage the assets that they own together despite the fact that one spouse may be the primary wage earner.
All property is owned and managed jointly, unless prenuptial agreements stipulate otherwise.
Each person is also responsible for liabilities that the other might incur. In case of divorce, he could expect to receive 50 percent of all of the assets they owned as a married couple. Shared partnership also means that alimony payments must be gender neutral. Alimony is seen as a continuation of the husband s financial responsibility after the marriage ends. It is paid by the man to the woman for the rest of her life or until she remarries.