My wife and I were married by the Deputy Wedding Commissioner of Fresno County. (Now there's a plum job.)
Anyhow one of the fees that they charge is for a $5 counseling session. This reminds me of the old Peanuts comic where you could get psychiatric help for 5 cents. The counseling was about as important in our case as well, but I guess you get what you pay for.
The other fee that they charge you besides the wedding license is the "Spousal abuse abatement fee" of $13.
They bring this up right in front of my wife as I'm writing out a check for the fees.
Essentially this is like saying to us, "Eventually, we know you're going to hit her so we're going to get our money right up front!"
So now I'm wondering: is this just a local Fresno County thing? . . . or is this law common across the country? I mean I know that there are other places in this country that have Stout populations of wife beaters besides Fresno.
Anyhow one of the fees that they charge is for a $5 counseling session. This reminds me of the old Peanuts comic where you could get psychiatric help for 5 cents. The counseling was about as important in our case as well, but I guess you get what you pay for.
The other fee that they charge you besides the wedding license is the "Spousal abuse abatement fee" of $13.
They bring this up right in front of my wife as I'm writing out a check for the fees.
Essentially this is like saying to us, "Eventually, we know you're going to hit her so we're going to get our money right up front!"
So now I'm wondering: is this just a local Fresno County thing? . . . or is this law common across the country? I mean I know that there are other places in this country that have Stout populations of wife beaters besides Fresno.