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In the champion of times, marriages tin beryllium difficult, but erstwhile things commencement to autumn apart, radical tin get really nasty. If you're a divorcement lawyer, past you astir apt cognize this each excessively good and person seen radical astatine their implicit WORST.
1. "My lawsuit got caught cheating connected his woman and wanted a divorcement but didn’t person the balls to archer her. So, helium asked maine to pass her that helium was filing for divorcement 2 days aft she had their child."
2. "I worked with a feline who got sick and needed an organ transplant. His woman was a match, but helium was excessively high-risk for the surgery. He discontinue smoking/drinking, got successful shape, and was capable to get the country utilizing his wife's donated organ. After the transplant... helium divorced her for a younger woman."
3. "It's not that I hoped my lawsuit would get screwed; it's that helium was screwing himself, AND I TOLD HIM HE WAS SCREWING HIMSELF, and helium refused to listen. I represented the hubby successful a nasty divorcement case. Custody fights. Protective orders. Subpoenas for substance messages. Allegations of infidelity connected some sides. Lots of assets successful play. The feline had a stereo installation concern that did precise well. It was going good until my lawsuit started giving his woman impermanent attraction payments USING COMPANY CHECKS. I said, 'Hey bud, that is unwise.' See, if you dainty your concern similar a idiosyncratic asset, the tribunal volition reason it should beryllium treated similar a idiosyncratic asset, viz., shared 50/50. My lawsuit disagreed with this. He felt it was important to amusement the tribunal however good his concern was doing. Turns out, the justice DID deliberation it was important, and the woman fundamentally got a 50% stock of the business's profits. Book-learnin' folks telephone this 'hubris.'"
4. "My ex's lawyer discontinue during a hearing. It was wide during a erstwhile proceeding that said lawyer had travel up with immoderate non-verbal cues for my ex re: erstwhile helium would get disconnected taxable (which was often). On this peculiar day, it happened truthful often that I conjecture they conscionable had enough? They asked the justice for a recess and then, successful the hallway, told my lawyer that my ex 'could not spot crushed and whitethorn not, successful fact, cognize the explanation of the connection reasonable.' The proceeding was postponed, and my ex represented himself (ineffectively) aft that."
5. "There was a mates who had 2 kids: 1 healthy, 1 disabled. They needed 24-hour-a-day care, much surgeries than birthdays, and would apt ne'er person a 'normal' life. My client's thought of the divorcement was that his soon-to-be ex-wife would instrumentality the disabled kid and determination retired of the house. He would support the location and the steadfast kid, and his woman would determination in. He would lend thing to the ex-wife, and thing toward the attraction of the disabled kid, for the remainder of his life. They would just... evaporate. The justice was not impressed. She got everything the justice could perchance springiness her. The house, the nicer car, some kids, alimony, and the maximum kid enactment allowed by law. I deliberation the justice would person turned the feline implicit his genu and spanked him if it had been possible."
6. "After a crappy matrimony filled with affectional and fiscal abuse, we yet separated, and I filed for divorce. My ex made a batch much than I did, and I wiped retired my full savings hiring a lawyer because, aft precisely 1 league of mediation, it was beauteous wide helium had nary volition of being tenable oregon gathering anyplace adjacent the mediate without idiosyncratic legally forcing him to. So I got a lawyer, and helium decided helium didn't request one. We would docket a meeting, and alternatively of thing moving forward, helium would conscionable propulsion papers astir the array for 2 hours and nitpick implicit insignificant details. I was conscionable watching my retainer interest drain away, and astatine immoderate constituent I became suspicious that this was precisely what helium was trying to do, until yet helium said it retired loud. He was dragging it retired until I couldn't spend representation."
"I was successful tears erstwhile I walked into my lawyer's bureau and told her this portion feeling wholly helpless. At this point, she cackled (literally) and told maine to fto him. Turns retired the 2 years helium spent pushing papers astir the array meant that successful little than 2 months, we would person been joined for 10 years, which meant that I was entitled to fractional of his pension. She declared that we were done with negotiations and scheduled a ceremonial tribunal day for a week aft our 10-year anniversary. Not lone did she guarantee that I'd get acold much than thing I was primitively offered, but she besides got the justice to bid him to wage each of my ineligible fees. The look connected his look erstwhile helium recovered retired astir the pension and realized helium did it to himself was priceless."
7. "There was a kid custody lawsuit connected Zoom during COVID times, and the ma took a deed disconnected a bong on camera. When she was called out, she turned the video off, but not the microphone, and they could inactive perceive her until they called her retired again."
8. "When my ex moved out, helium said helium 'didn’t privation to proceed his relationship' with the kid we had adopted, and helium 'wanted immoderate maine time' for a fewer months earlier having to instrumentality the teenagers 'maybe 1 play a month.' Our mediation lawyer was perfectly dumbfounded. She flat-out told him, 'I can’t spell earlier the justice with an statement that says you conscionable aren’t ever going to spot your kids again. That volition look VERY BAD for you.'"
9. "When the divorcement happened, 2 of the 3 kids were adults, and the 3rd was 2 years distant from going to college. The woman took fractional of everything, including status accounts. She made him motion a divorcement statement that said, among different things, helium would support a beingness security argumentation successful her sanction until helium died and wage her $11k a period until she died. They were some successful their aboriginal fifties, and that was astir 3 decades ago, and helium is inactive paying her. She didn’t enactment for astir of their matrimony and hasn’t worked a time since they divorced. He was a doc and present has cancer, and astir of his status goes to paying her."
"He astir apt doesn’t person overmuch clip left, but the ex-wife has threatened their children, saying that everything helium has indispensable spell to her erstwhile helium goes. He’s truthful retired of it now, and helium doesn’t adjacent retrieve the agreement. The children are stuck managing his finances present and person to wage their parent each month, adjacent though they don’t talk to her anymore. She doesn’t adjacent privation to spot her grandchildren. The full concern is unbelievable."
10. "One of my colleagues decided she wasn’t going to enactment for a lawsuit anymore due to the fact that they were becoming progressively hard to woody with and had started harassing her. A mates of days later, I realized a car had been sitting successful our car parkland for rather a portion with radical inside, conscionable staring into my ground-floor office. I asked the receptionist what was going on, and we realized it was the idiosyncratic who had been ditched arsenic a client. The subdivision manager went retired to the car and told them it was a backstage car parkland and they had to leave. There was a batch of shouting connected the ex-client’s part, positive whoever was successful the car with them. Eventually they left, but the unusual portion was that they filmed the full happening arsenic if their sitting connected backstage spot attempting to harass the unit was a triumph for them? I’ve nary thought what happened to them, but I definite anticipation they didn’t get custody of the kids."
11. "My ex was truthful hell-bent connected punishing maine for leaving that she created an situation that allowed our children to walk 41 days successful foster care. It devolved to the constituent that her lawyer teamed up with my lawyer and maine to person her to get her enactment unneurotic capable to bring our kids home. It's been 5 years, and I'm inactive flabbergasted that THAT was a much tolerable enactment for her than just, you know, moving with me."
12. "Both parties were unhappy and mutually decided they didn't privation to beryllium joined anymore. This was backmost erstwhile it was much viable to beryllium a single-income family. She was a homemaker for 30+ years, raising their 4 kids. He was good with her leaving and them getting a divorce; however, helium felt that she shouldn't get anything. In his mind, she didn't merit the house, oregon 1 of the cars, oregon immoderate information of the savings/retirement, due to the fact that helium was the 1 who worked. Obviously, their respective divorcement lawyers and the tribunal disagreed. He went done 3 antithetic lawyers, each of whom fired him due to the fact that of his abusive cognition erstwhile they weren't capable to unafraid what helium wanted."
"Then, helium decided that the tribunal wouldn't beryllium allowed to walk immoderate judgments successful the lawsuit if helium wasn't present. So helium conscionable stopped attending immoderate of the hearings. This worked the archetypal 2 times, but aft rescheduling twice, the tribunal mislaid patience and conscionable ruled successful her favour connected each point due to the fact that helium wasn't determination to contention anything."
13. "A person joined a feline successful the amusement concern erstwhile his girl from his archetypal matrimony was 3. She did much to rise the miss than her begetter oregon mother. When the divorcement was initiated, helium kept the then-16-year-old girl distant from my person and told his girl that my person nary longer wanted to spot her. Her lawyers said she had nary custody rights and determination was thing they could bash astir it. They fought implicit everything else, and helium was a miserable bastard, and the tribunal could spot that. A proceedings was scheduled successful NYC. He did not amusement up, and his lawyers said helium was incapable to spend the airfare from LA. My friend’s lawyer hired a PI, who took pictures of the bastard drinking pina coladas successful Maui with his caller girlfriend."
"When the justice learned of this, she sentenced him to a twelvemonth successful jailhouse with a hefty fine, and said she was referring his lawyers to the barroom association. The lawyers had a sidebar successful which the justice said she’d driblet the condemnation and referral if they settled the lawsuit successful 3 days.
My person got everything she wanted successful presumption of wealth and property, and a three-hour gathering unsocial with the stepdaughter. The ex begged her to backmost up his lies that she did not privation to spot the girl, but she said that if helium did not travel cleanable to his daughter, determination would beryllium nary settlement. So helium did, and she inactive sees the girl (now successful her 30s) regularly and went to her wedding."
14. "When my parents got divorced, my begetter suggested a Parent Trap-like arrangement, wherever helium would get afloat custody of my member and my ma would get custody of maine due to the fact that 'it's lone just that each genitor gets to support 1 child; it's 50/50.' Pretty definite this is amerciable here, and adjacent if it were possible, nary sane lawyer would ever hold to this. He really sent that to her implicit text, and we inactive person the screenshots. Mom lone sent back, 'Are you delusional?'"
15. "The mates was ordered by the tribunal to spell to household therapy truthful they could larn however to co-parent. They each refused until their lawyers told them that they would beryllium held successful contempt of tribunal for not going. So they yet went. At the extremity of the precise archetypal session, the therapist said that the champion people of enactment was for them to interact arsenic small arsenic imaginable due to the fact that they were successful nary mode susceptible of being civil, adjacent for the involvement of their children."
16. "Back erstwhile I was successful instrumentality school, 1 of my professors had this lawsuit who was divorcing a portion of shit. What her ex didn’t cognize was that she knew helium committed fiscal fraud. She besides knew astir his spouse successful fraud/bussiness spouse who was helping him. The ex fundamentally hid his wealth successful anticipation of the divorcement and different shady dealings, and courts don’t similar that. In the end, they gave her each the wealth helium hid. She would person gotten a batch little wealth had her ex been honest. He didn’t spell to jail, though, but it was a existent possibility. And according to my professor, she joined a precise handsome antheral afterward."
17. "One time, a woman asked maine to support her successful a transgression lawsuit successful which her hubby accused her of buying a location successful her sanction with his wealth portion helium was connected a concern trip. The woman moved into that location with the antheral she'd been having an matter with, and filed for divorce. When I finished speechmaking the file, I asked her for her mentation of events, and she confirmed everything the hubby had said with nary remorse. My jaw dropped. I thought, 'If I'm gonna instrumentality this case, astatine slightest fto the wage beryllium worthy the trauma of defending her.' So erstwhile she asked however overmuch it would outgo to prosecute me, I said an magnitude 4 times what I would usually charge. She ne'er called, and TBH, I'm gladsome she didn't."
18. "My lawsuit didn’t caput paying kid enactment but wanted to marque definite they couldn’t unit him to spot his kids — whom helium adopted from foster care. Sadly, my lawsuit was conscionable a horrible person. I felt truthful atrocious for the kids."
19. "When my ex and I got divorced, we were reasonably poor. It was. mostly a DIY divorce, but we had to look successful tribunal to finalize it. He was abusive and an alcoholic, truthful erstwhile it came to splitting our belongings, I fto him instrumentality everything to marque the process easier (literally everything; I moved into an bare flat with the apparel I owned, and that’s it.) The lone happening I wanted was a broad his champion friend’s parent had made for maine arsenic a wedding gift. He chose that 1 happening to combat bony and nail about. He got the house, the dog, everything successful the kitchen, the car, the motorcycle — I conscionable wanted the blanket."
"On the time of court, I yet relented and said helium could person it. When we went earlier the judge, helium asked if thing was contested, and I conscionable looked astatine the level and said no. He said, 'You hold to him having everything?' I said, 'Well, determination is this blanket…' My ex lost it, the justice was incredulous, and I person a divorcement decree that lists the broad arsenic the 'asset' I got to keep! In the end, I threw the broad distant a fewer months later."
20. "My dada was the walking dictionary explanation of a narcissist. We lived successful a precise agrarian country erstwhile helium and my mum split. He went done each lawyer successful the adjacent municipality over, trying to fuck her implicit with continuing custody disputes, demanding crap that wasn’t legal, having the constabulary raid our location for guns and drugs adjacent though helium was the 1 with those things, conscionable to marque her look bad. Some fired him; astir helium fired himself. 20 years later, my stepmum was successful the process of divorcing him, too. His kids from that matrimony were successful their precocious teens and wanted thing to bash with him, truthful helium couldn’t usage them arsenic a weapon. This clip helium utilized the workplace to effort and fuck her retired of a settlement. The funniest happening was my stepmum ended up utilizing the aforesaid lawyer my mum did each those years ago; the mums are large friends now."
21. "I did person a lawsuit wherever my lawsuit fought truly hard for the dog, and past ended up turning him implicit to a shelter. Fucking asshole. Thankfully, the ex-wife received an 'anonymous' extremity and was capable to get the canine backmost quickly."
22. "My friend's hubby was dragging things out, pretending to beryllium infirm truthful helium could get retired of sharing his retirement. My person was being grilled astir shared debt, and she yet mislaid her temper erstwhile the lawyer said, 'And aren't you divorcing him to debar this debt?' She snapped back, 'No, I'm divorcing him due to the fact that helium tried to slumber with my sister.' The stenographer and the clerk some covered their mouths similar they were trying not to laugh. The justice warned her not to bring it up again (no-fault state), but dismissed the enactment of questioning."
23. "Family lawyer here. The clients are the worst portion of household instrumentality due to the fact that you spot them successful their worst moments during a precise hard clip successful their lives. Having said that, I surely wasn’t 'rooting' for this 1 lawsuit who videotaped his ex-wife without her cognition erstwhile she would get drunk, to usage her behaviour against her, which conscionable rubbed maine the incorrect way. He was besides precise pompous and snobby, yet would nonstop rambling emails with galore spelling and grammar mistakes. He conscionable grossed maine out."
24. And finally, "There was a feline who, during his divorce, didn't amusement up to tribunal but handed idiosyncratic a enactment to springiness to the judge. It had a agelong database of each of these antithetic excuses wherefore helium couldn't beryllium successful court, immoderate contradictory. Stuff similar a breached backmost and not being capable to drive, oregon needing to prime idiosyncratic up from the airport. Then determination was my favorite: saying his mum was sick, but she was successful the courtroom. The justice looked astatine it for astir 3 seconds, stared blankly astatine whoever gave it to him, and said thing on the lines of, 'This is rubbish. We tin get escaped of this.'"
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