We marry in America with less knowledge of what we are doing than when buying a car. Marriage is a contract between husband, wife and the state. No state offers a copy of it to you to read, and almost no one knows the duties, rights and obligations specified in it. In most states Domestic relations law had been a patchwork, parts of which were usually 200 years old, with essentially four provisions. If the husband moves to Florida from Ct.
Husband is responsible for support of wife and children.
This is a mixed blessing for wives, because husbands in most states get to manage family income and property. Wife must perform domestic duties. Even if both husband and wife work full-time, the wife is legally responsible for domestic duties. Wife is responsible for child care. Over the passed twenty years most states have rewritten then domestic relations laws and removed over sex specific delegation of rights and responsibilities.