re: Nastiest divorce situations you've seen.

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Only folks that win are the lawyers. The kids almost always suffer the consequences.

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I’ve coached recently divorced kids in baseball whose parents went through nasty divorces. For one boy, if it was mom’s week with the kids and she couldn’t get her son to practice or a game, he just wouldn’t get to go. It didn’t matter if the dad could have easily brought him to the game. “Nope. Not my week.” For another kid, the mom just wouldn’t let the boy come to any games or practices on her week just to spite the dad because he loved baseball (so did the boy). Another divorced couple had to hold a weekly meeting (even though they despised one another) to plan out the week for their kids.
Watching that stuff was really eye opening and made me realize that it’s in your best interests to work it out if it’s at all possible because you won’t get that person out of your life if you have kids.

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2nd cousin

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I hate to even say it but this has Alabama written all over it.

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Close buddy of mine owns a commercial painting business and apparently a lot of the jobs he does he offers a big cash discount so he had numerous gallon-sized baggies of cash in a large gun safe in his closet, probably around $500k.

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Wait, wait, wait…. Your friend is going through a nasty divorce and has all this shite in a safe in his closet. He knows his wife knows about it. However, he thinks she’s gonna keep it a secret?

Your friend sounds like a complete f*cking moron. He should’ve gotten rid of all that shite and hid it in a place that no one else knew about.

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She was also bipolar.

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“She” and “bipolar” are basically redundant.

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My divorce from the bat-shite crazy woman ten years ago. I don't want to talk about it.



Come on, just give us a 3 sentence rundown.

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She tried to get my son and daughter fired from their jobs. She was allowed to stay in the house two years after our separation where she stole everything (furniture, cabinets, knobs off all the drawers and cabinets that she didn't steal). I know I could have gone back to court, but I was so relieved to be rid of her, I just let it go.

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The flip side of this is that not all women are lying, cheating whores. Some people don't choose poorly

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Agreed.

I’ve got mine and that’s my thing.

I did have to run though a slew of lying whores before her though.

My sister lives in NC. Apparently in NC, you have to be separated for a full year before filing divorce.
Anyway, her husband separates her out of the blue. (They are in their 50s at this point with no shared kids) Been married for nearly 30 years though.
He went on to having that mid life crisis and tried to "live it up". But, remember he's just a CPA living in the burbs with not a lot of social skills.
Anyway, the whole year goes by and my sister really is wanting to work it out. He kind of plays along with it and towards the end of the year, they are on somewhat a talking basis. My sister is really thinking they are going to get back together. Right around the time of the one year point, they finally agree to go to dinner together. (They always ate out together throughout their marriage) My sister gets all fixed up, etc. and they eat a nice dinner. At the end of the dinner, he gives her the divorce papers.

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In Kentucky, you can’t divorce a pregnant woman so he was stuck with her until she had the baby.

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That doesn’t even make sense.

ETA: bc it means you can leave a woman with a newborn. Also the man can just leave and not divorce and I assume avoid alimony bc not divorced.

I guess the woman can file. Anyway, trashy.

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Case went downhill from there.

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Yikes. I’d hate to hear about the downhill part!

I hired a lawyer (or he was at the time) for my divorce. I’m an atty, thankfully, because he did nothing. Kept my retainer of course. Went downhill from there….

Divorce took forever bc he wouldn’t file shite even when I drafted everything myself. Divorce agreement went fine. She got nothing except her retirement accounts we were able to max out bc I paid for everything but that’s it. Wasn’t a long marriage.


Fun and sad part (and I realize this is sort of a spinoff) was watching my atty enter a death spiral. He makes Barry Zuckercorn look like Atticus Finch.

He had wrecked his car (first red flag, well after the fact that I met him in a bar) so i loaned him my truck.

He proceeds to get shot at in it at a gas station on Ponce in Atlanta.

Then he wrecked it. Took it to his “friend” who does body work (this is an old Nissan truck but it was my granddad’s and I loved it). Yeah. Comes back like a year later looking like Jose and drunk a handle of Cuervo and gone to town with a mallet, Bondo and spray paint.

Then the mofo runs off to Vegas, marries some 19yo, blows through his entire client trust account (had significant settlements and retainers in it). Weeks later is hammered, runs off the road and kills the wife.

Disbarred.

I think he’s clean and sober now and mostly avoided jail.

The End.