“It's not that lawyers lack relationship-building skills,” she writes. “But, overworked, overburdened and squeezed by time—and now, the worst downturn in two decades—lawyers do exhibit communication and intimacy breakdowns peculiar to their education, their professional training and work environment.”

Of course, the first profession I looked at was lawyers. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that most lawyers marry other lawyers. But male lawyers also marry schoolteachers, secretaries, and miscellaneous managers. And lesbian lawyers marry people in other computer occupations.

Contact the State Bar of California: If your attorney continues to ignore your attempts to contact them, you may want to consider filing a complaint with the State Bar of California. The State Bar regulates attorneys in California and can investigate complaints of professional misconduct.

There is no law for the concept of contract marriage in India. Rather Indian laws relating to marriage based on various religions and civil marriage laws doesn't mention anything like contract marriage.