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Lawyers Share 30 Petty And Intense Stories Of People Destroying Each Other During Divorce
Let’s face it, marriage is hard work and there are always bumps along the way. Sometimes, a couple knows that their issues are too big to overcome and decides that a permanent split is the best move for both of them. But if there’s one thing we know about divorce—it can get really messy.
So it’s no surprise that when user DarkFander14 asked divorce lawyers to share the most insane ways spouses have tried to screw each other over, they rolled up their sleeves. More than 12.6K comments flooded in, anonymously revealing the pettiest and wildest things partners did to mess with or take advantage of one another.
From trying to get half of the house just to demolish it to spending $100,000 fighting over an ashtray, Bored Panda has collected the cream of the crop from this viral thread. Continue scrolling, judge them for yourself, and be sure to leave a comment with your thoughts!
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#1
This one hits close to home because it happened between my parents. We had a family “friend” who was a lawyer and my parents agreed that he would be the lawyer for both of them as a mediator. So, as the assets were being divided my dad got absolutely slammed. She was going to get the house, cars, half his retirement, and an insane amount of alimony. To the tune of like $2,500 a month for the rest of her life. My dad has a good job as a municipal employee, but that was probably 70%ish of his paycheck.
Turns out that my mom and the “family friend” actually conspired to rip my dad off and make it seem like that’s what a divorce settlement looks like. And she was going kick back more money under the table after the dust had settled. Dad just didn’t know how these things worked. So, after some convincing he finally went out and got his own lawyer. He got a very fair divorce settlement after that.
Mom still to this day can’t understand why we don’t talk to her much.
Dave P 3 years ago
to do that the dad would have to file with the Bar with documentation, have an investigation, interviews, etc.
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Moezzzz 3 years ago
I did. My ex husband and I, very amicably, divorced and used the same lawyer. We evenly divided everything, so that our sons wouldn't go without. Our sons never saw a courtroom, they never had to "choose"; we made everything as easy and smooth as possible for them. My husband and ex husband have a close friendship (I call it a "bromance" lol) and we're all involved with everything they do, together. Definitely not the norm, but it worked for us
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John L 3 years ago
Not if no one finds out. The point being they took advantage of his naivete, saying it was okay to share a lawyer.
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Kelly Jones 3 years ago
None of any of this is funny or great. Bored Panda, you can do better. Family court is replete with unethical attorneys repping sick people who they assist to harm the other spouse. Kids given the worst of it. Take it from me, I divorced Alex Jones (left abuse, pls spare me the comments), he sued me for 8 yrs, I spent every cent of the .04 percent I got, kids denied medical care for things later treated 5 wks at children’s hospital. My child is about to be 18 & is at a sophomore level, Alex pulled her from school, the whole time he’s severely abusive & his wife is on her 2nd DUI, attacking him & my child. Not funny, post is generally ignorant. It’s the one court more people will pass through than any. See me on Twitter @realkellyjones
Candia Lee 3 years ago
This list is "most insane thing a divorce client did to their spouse". Like any "weirdest" list, it is not intended to be funny, tho some posts might bring amusement because humans laugh at other's misfortunes.
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phil blanque 3 years ago
If being greedy, selfish, deceptive, and secretive were grounds for being disbarred, we would not have very many lawyers.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My mum didn't go to that extent but I feel so bad for my dad because mum gave the real estate agent who was valuing the house before settlement a sob story so the value of the house was set lower than it should have been. Mum paid dad half of that value (about $300 000) at settlement and kept the house. Fifteen years later she sold the house for $1.33 million.
Stephanie Keith 3 years ago
Believe me, she understands she just refuses to admit her awful behavior and acts like it's ok. I'm very sorry your dad and you had to deal with such a horrible person. I agree with you wanting nothing to do with her.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Only if the lawyer conspires with one against the other as opposed to acting as a glorified notary.
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#2
I read about a case where the wife was trying to take half of a guys business and millions in personal assets, only to find out that the business had been moved into his sons name years earlier, and the guy donated all their savings, millions of dollars, to a childrens hospital in his soon to be ex-wife's name so she couldn't get the money.
The judge said what he did was technically legal since it was community property and no freeze had been placed on it yet, but was morally unconscionable. Lawyer said in his entire life he never saw a bigger smile on a mans face. He just kept saying "I just wanted to help the children" and smiling.
Otter 3 years ago
Sounds like an excellent example of "cutting of your nose to spite your face". He gave away his own saving just to f**k over his wife, but at least the children's hospital benefitted from his assholery.
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Leodavinci 3 years ago
Add me to the list of people who think that a spouse does not inherently deserve (nor should receive) half of a marriage partner's business/assets/property simply due to being married to them.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
First of all, if your spouse doesn't deserve an equal share of assets, why are you getting married to them? If you don't want to share your assets, don't marry/live in a community property state. Get a prenup. Or don't get married at all, since sharing is part of the concept of marriage.
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CanadianPanda 3 years ago
This is the only pettiness I could get behind! The money spent to children in need, well done sir!
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Please, Kelly, if you only want to read funny posts, don't read lists about divorce or your other triggers.
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According to the Institute for Family Studies, the divorce rate in America has been falling fast in recent years, hitting a record low in 2019. It seems that for every 1,000 marriages, only 14.9 ended in divorce: “This is the lowest rate we have seen in 50 years.”
Since more people are staying together, marriages are getting longer. The researchers found that the average duration of current marriages in the U.S. “has increased almost one year in the recent decade, from 19 years in 2010 to 19.8 years in 2019.”
Even though there are headlines blaring that COVID-19 has had a huge toll on people’s relationships, the drop in the divorce rate is likely to continue. In fact, research shows that the pandemic has actually brought some couples closer to each other.
#3
My parents got divorced, and my mom didn't want my dad to show up in court and contest. So she called me and told me to put laxatives in his food so he wouldn't make it. I didn't, and she still hates me for it.
phil blanque 3 years ago
Involving children in adult disputes is petty, mean, and inexcusable. This kid's mom hates him/her for being ethical. Who really is the spoiled child here?
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Jo Choto 3 years ago
Oh hun! My mother asked me to slip him some mind-altering drugs so he would sign over the house to her. I didn't.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Your mom and my mom should have brunch!! So sorry you had to live through it!!
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Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
I was with my (adult) cousin for moral support as my (soon-to-be-ex) aunt tried to cajole her into sabotaging my uncle in their divorce. My cousin very succinctly told her mom that while she may be divorcing the man she resents and even detests, it is still her father and she loves him and will always be close to him. To which her mom told her she needed to be on her side as a woman. My cousin told her she was putting her in a position to choose one of them & since she had no choice but to choose, she was choosing decency and integrity. That was nearly five years ago and she’s only spoken to her mother a handful of times since. She sees her dad weekly. I always wonder if parents who use their children as pawns in divorce regret the damage they cause.
Laugh or not 3 years ago
The mother asking her child to poison their father. Great parenting here.
#4
I once had a boss whose wife grabbed all the belongings from the house she felt entitled to while her husband was gone. Well, when he returned, every knob and handle was gone, too — doorknobs, cabinet handles, drawer handles, anything used to open something. And every day for the next week, he would occasionally yell out, 'SHE TOOK THE F**KING KNOBS!'
Bexxxxx 3 years ago
I had a roommate that left on bad terms. Everything seemed fine when I got home the day she left, but I slowly began to realize she’d taken all the towels, all the forks, the laundry detergent, and all the toilet paper 😂 just enough to massively inconvenience me, I thought it was so funny I wasn’t even mad
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Sophie Leon 3 years ago
When one of my bffs finally divorced her abusive-narcissistic husband he took the lightbulbs, the internet modem (which didn't work without the landline), the dog's house (but left the dog) and most of the furniture & appliances. My friend had bought most of them but she put his name in the invoices cause he needed them to deduct taxes, so there was nothing she could do to win them back
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Bank records? Why would she need to put her husband's name on invoices for tax purposes unless he had gaslighted her into believing that's how taxes work?
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kjorn 3 years ago
makes me think the movie with Richard Pryor where he bought a house and when he's there they took EVERYTHING.
Edison Michael 3 years ago
I can already imagine her stopping in front of the door and thinking: "Well, since I chose them..."
Kishibe Angelo 3 years ago
hahahahahahahaha i cant with this one omg i imagne how evryone in the office must be like
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
My POS ex did this. But not knobs. He literally cut the chords to every electronic in the house. Mind you I had small kids at the time. So no tv or dvd or anything for them. (not shared kids). He also took pillows, left the pillow cases. Took my favorite blanket just to be an ass. Stole my car, cut off my power, water and tried the car insurance. Told the cell phone company my phone was stolen even though I proved I paid for the phones (his included) and bills from my account. and a host of other stupid s**t. Long story short, I won in the end and he looked like a complete ass. Also, he's in jail as I type this because he never amounted to anything after I left. But I digress. Karma is a b***h.
Data from the American Family Survey reveals that a majority of wedded Americans say that “the pandemic has made them appreciate their spouse more and half agree that their commitment to marriage has deepened.”
However, while some choose to stay in a marriage for the long haul, others decide that splitting up is the healthier alternative. Maybe your partner left you for another person. Perhaps your relationship is not what you thought it would be. Or maybe your partnership has been in dire straits for years, but only now reached the end of the road.
There can be endless reasons why a marriage fails, but there’s no denying that it hurts. This can lead to at least one partner, or maybe even both, acting completely irrational and engaging in petty behaviors. And even though it’s tempting to take cheap shots at your ex, it can come back to bite you in the future.
#5
Watched a 14 million dollar settlement, which took months to achieve, abandoned when the parties came to who would keep the cat. For that, there was a week long trial. Jurors wanted to euthanize them both and take the cat home themselves.
Great Panda Mamu 3 years ago
Can you imagine being called for jury duty and it's about two people in a bitter divorce fighting over their cat for a whole flipping week?
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Shea Fujishima 3 years ago
My husband and I joke that we stay together because neither of us wants to deal with our cat, Ninja, on our own!
Les Izmore 3 years ago
Wtf, people are forced to serve jury duty to rule on who gets a cat. What a total lack of respect for the jury
Jude Corrigan 3 years ago
I would prefer to serve on a jury for a cat, than a case involving animal or child abuse.
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#6
Had a client whose wife wanted him out of the house. I told him not to leave, just move to a different bedroom for the time being because once he was out the chances of him ever getting back in were slim.
He texted his wife and told her he was staying in the house. She called back and left a VM that she wanted him out and if he wasn't out soon, she would start taking out her unhappiness on the children, and would remind the children that mommy was being mean to them because daddy wouldn't leave.
Gaby Almodovar 3 years ago
If she left this message in a voice-mail, chances rose for the father getting the custody of the kids.
John C 3 years ago (edited)
yeah, sadly even with evidence it's still not a sure thing that a woman would lose custody after using her children as pawns!
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Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
This just goes to show that no woman is the incarnation of the holy virgin Mary. Women can be as vile as men.
J. Normal 3 years ago
When pushed we can be MUCH worse, just many of us have a VERY long fuse.
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Monic Krugell 3 years ago
Great! that text would be a great character witness against her if they fight over custody
Animalsrgreat 3 years ago
I can't imagine why he didn't want to stay married to her. Sounds like such a responsible, mature woman.
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
Show that VM to a judge, and that's how you get custody, and the house.
Katie Crow, family law and divorce attorney, wrote that during the time of your divorce, every single thing you do is in the spotlight. “Emotions are running wild, and both of you are completely hurt and vulnerable, and it is important to try and keep a level head during the divorce.”
It’s no secret that divorces can be emotionally and financially difficult, but you have to stay calm and see your actions from different perspectives. Even seemingly small or innocent deeds can get twisted in the eyes of your partner, leading to a huge and long argument for everyone to see.
#7
I work for a divorce attorney, and the craziest divorce I saw was when the husband — who had left the home — returned while his wife was at work to not only remove his clothing and belongings, but to Gorilla glue her things together! He glued the TV remote to the table, the phone to its cradle, the couch pillows to the couch, and he even glued the vacuum cleaner to the carpet. She called the police to report property damage, and for days afterward, she continued discovering random things glued together, including her oven mitts, which were glued to the wall, and all of her sheets in the linen closet, which were glued together.
Monday 3 years ago
This is one of those things that's absolutely awful when it happens...but a decade later is a hilarious story you share with your new partner.
phil blanque 3 years ago
How is it that at one time time people pledge a loving commitment together...forever...and later do hateful, selfish things to each other? Swans mate for life. Snowgeese mate for life. Cardinals mate for life. Are human beings less ethical than birds?
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Birds don't stay together out of good ethics. Humans are not birds. Many animals are not monogamous. People can be petty.
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Tracey Hill 3 years ago
I’m sorry……but this makes me laugh! (And I’m the wife who had to pay her ex-husband to get a divorce)!
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
I've seen this story so many time, but it's always a different spouse doing the gluing.
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
Ok,Horror!!! But…. I’m still laughing 🤣🤣 That’s something the WIFE WOULD DO!!!!
#8
I read about a top executive at a Fortune 500 company who was caught in a nasty divorce. He was set up for life with a bunch of stock, houses, and assets in many places, and the wife wanted everything she could possible get. Well, the husband proposed that if his wife let him keep everything, he'd give her half of his paycheck for the rest of his life... She quickly agreed because his checks were huge, and he received millions of dollars in bonuses. Well, as soon as the paperwork was finalized, he quit his job and started to work part-time at a sporting goods store! He would still drive to work in his expensive car and was still set for life. But every Friday, he loved knowing that his ex-wife would only be getting about $150 per check.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
A lot of very rich people are officially working for a minimum wage to dodge taxes. The rest of their income are bonusses, travel expenses, counseling fees, attendance premiums and a share in the profits.
J. Normal 3 years ago
I read where one takes his whole "salary" in stock, everything he purchases he does on "options" no cash involved. His reasoning... he does not have to spend a dime on tax's. Then he becomes a smart ass and sells some stock and pays a tiny bit While making a big joke out of it. He is one of the many people I would love to see begging on a street corner.
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Jo Choto 3 years ago
I don't like the tone of these posts which list the man as having ownership of everything, and the women wanting half, like it's wrong. When you are married to someone and have a family, it's usually the woman that bears children and raises them and takes care of a lot of the household and bills and day to day needs of the family. This is what enables a man to build a business and spend all those extra hours climbing the ladder, amassing assets. Women frequently give up their careers completely to support the family, or else take a break or take much lesser incomes. So everything that has been amassed during the marriage is rightly considered as belonging to both partners. I don't like the message that women are gold-diggers for wanting their legally-entitled share of marital wealth.
H G 3 years ago (edited)
I read these as trophy wives who did just get married to milk the man for all he's worth.
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Another arsehole. It is THEIR money and THEIR assets. That's what marriage is about. She helped him to accumulate that wealth. At any rate, I find this difficult to believe. Any competent lawyer would have pointed out the problem with this proposal to her.
Isaac7lego 3 years ago
what if she didn't tho, I mean they could have just married.....
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Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 3 years ago
I used to be a domestic law attorney (thank the lord that’s over), and I can promise you this s**t wouldn’t fly in my state. A person can not “purposely impoverish” themselves to avoid financial responsibilities. Sadly, I saw it all the time and judges would FLIP when the case was ultimately brought back to court.
Faith Horler-Clarke 3 years ago
But if she decided to take him to court over this the judge would rule that he would have to get a better paying job because he’s been proven to be capable of it. Be careful.
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
Auoch!!! She has been married to him…. Didn’t she know how he would treat his enemys…,, what a fool.
#9
Used to work as a file clerk for a divorce attorney. Our client was trying to get full custody over her child because her husband was “dangerously neglectful of their son”. How was he being dangerously neglectful?
By serving spaghetti (instead of turkey) for thanksgiving. I wish I was making this up
Arctic Fox Lover 3 years ago
I'd honestly be happier with spaghetti rather than turkey for Thanksgiving
laura edwards 3 years ago
My stepdaughter called the police because someone served her 17 year old daughter pancakes. Not allergic, just didn't want them.
Lynn Morello 3 years ago
My first Ex husband, went to court and bragged about the Baked dinners he served the kids on Sundays. "Baked Beans on Toast."
Brian Kirk 3 years ago
As a child, had I been offered spaghetti instead of turkey, I would have been all in. Now today, I cook a turkey every so often during the year because I love it. Plus, I deep fry the bird so it is NEVER dry.
“Don’t fool yourself by saying ‘they would never say that about me’ or ‘they would never do that to me’ because I have seen too many people get hurt under that false assumption,” she said. “Divorce can bring out a completely different breed of character from the person you thought you have known for years. It may even bring out a new side in yourself that could get you into trouble.”
Crow recommends monitoring your actions and behavior to make sure that your feelings do not get the better of you. She provides a couple of examples: “Bad-mouthing your ex to your kids, getting a DUI, and having promiscuous relationships.” Acting out at the moment can end up hurting you in the long run. Not to mention that it can even cause bigger issues outside of your divorce.
#10
The couple was divorcing on mutual terms, and the wife had one child with this husband and one from a previous marriage. Well, the husband agreed to pay child support for both children even though he wasn't obligated to... The judge signed the order, they set up the child support account, and it got kicked back, saying they couldn't have two accounts for the same child. Well, it turns out, the wife had been collecting child support from the biological father the entire time they were married, and she never told her husband! So, she basically tried to milk two fathers for one child!
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Kudos to both fathers for stepping up. Woman should be charged with fraud and pay some restitution. That's just terrible!
over it already 3 years ago
I'm glad she was found out, but there is nothing preventing having more than one account per child. What if child is in foster care, or with a grandparent as custodian? Both parents are still responsible for supporting their child, so 2 separate accounts.
Natalie Schwartz 3 years ago
…it’s not about bank accounts. It’s a child “account” with the state. Meaning the state already had a record of paying the wife for this child from the kids biological father so another payment cannot be set up.
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Natalie Schwartz 3 years ago
Why punish the child? Child support is the right of the child, not the parent. Judge should have ordered her to account for all the spending she did to make sure she was using the money for the kid and imposed a penalty if she didn’t
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I represented a guy who was on his second marriage. His first wife had passed away from cancer. Well, while divorcing his second wife, he met a very kind, affectionate woman, they hit it off, and they became basically engaged...
Well, the fiancé was later diagnosed with terminal cancer, and when the wife found out, she accused him — in court — of killing his first wife by 'giving' her cancer and trying to do the same thing to his fiancé! I wish I had an artist's rendering of the scene, capturing the crazy look in the wife's eyes, her attorney's look of shame and embarrassment, and the judge's look of plain confusion.
Eric Mac Fadden 3 years ago
UNLESS she kept radioactive material on his side of the couch/bed or poisoned them. OK, I'll take my tinfoil hat off...
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Parmeisan 3 years ago
This is heart-breakingly sad. Not the part about the crazy ex. I cannot imagine the depths of despair you would be in after losing *two* loves to the same disease.
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Happened to a neighbor of ours. He went a couple of years after, of the same thing.
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Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Even if that were possible we know it's not true or he'd have done it to the insane soon to be ex rather than the other two.
Alicia Miller 3 years ago
The only way this isn't crazy is if the women had been given something to cause cancer. It's happened.
#12
Child of traumatic divorce here.
There’s so many and I mean SO many things I could post on this thread about how f**king terrible my parents were to each other, but this takes the cake.
My parents were separated, in the process of divorcing, and had split custody between my brother and I (we were 5 and 7 at the time). My dad didn’t have his own place yet so when it was his turn to be with us he came back to our house (the one he purchased mind you) and my mom was supposed to leave. One weekend they were arguing over something and it got so bad that my mom wouldn’t leave and told my dad she would call the police (something she apparently did a lot to get her way, which after growing up with her I can attest she did this a lot unnecessarily to control us). So she left, called the police, told them my father was dangerous and had a gun (my dad was in the army and we had plenty guns, locked in a safe of course).
Of course the police were just doing their job, and took my mom at face value. It went so fast from my brother and I watching tv with my dad to the police knocking at our door, my dad opening the door and getting pepper sprayed without the cops saying anything, and then my dad locked the door and the cops couldn’t bust it down, so they came around back and broke our sliding glass door in so they could arrest my dad in our front yard with all our neighbors watching. I didn’t really understand what was happening at the time but it was traumatizing for sure.
Then my mom tried to get full custody of us in their actual divorce, and thank god the judge ruled for split custody. My whole childhood was s**tty honestly bc all they did was explain very deep and emotionally complex situations to very young children who just wanted their parents to love each other.
But yeah, I’ve never quite forgiven my mom for that one.
Béla Kun 3 years ago
Why are ppl like this not in jail? In my country false reporting of a crime could easily land you in jail.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
In USA, it's called "domestic violence". After decades of believing men rather than women, we started believing women and arresting men. There are still manipulative women who abuse the law. My son's girlfriend knew that "choking" is an automatic DV arrest, so when she got drunk and they argued and she stumbled and he held her up against the wall so she wouldn't fall, she told the cops he tried to choke her and they hauled him off to jail. His parole was violated; she knew her lie would send him to jail. I met her and I totally believe his version.
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Lisa Reuss 3 years ago
Some people should never have children. Sadly, a LOT of people should never have children. The stories I read are heart-wrenching.
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
This may get downvoted a thousand times but in these days, If you have a penis... you're guilty! Trust! Been there done that. My Ex had 8 boyfriends (two became husbands) over 6 years and doing coke and partying... I had an honest life, working for the gov't... no girlfriend... but guess who is the villain. She got the kids... because there is no one like mommy!! My kids grew up to hate her... but no way to do anything about it because... did you ever go to court and see those posters with mommy holding her tearful child that says "Children... they're worth every penny!" WOW! I, with great fight and life and limb, got custody of all 4... so yeah... then... A single dad of 4... no one cuts ME any breaks because "I should MAN up!" Well, I did... and she's still out in left field somewhere... but in the womanverse... I'm still a d**k. OUCH!
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
I had the same drama divorcy parents☹️ They kept me & My brother in there “War” un till they past away…. Even when My dad was past away first,My Mum kept Going On about negative stuff about him. It hurt like hell when ever they did it. No matter what age I had….. Has marked My Life & Brothers all of up til now,we are midlleaged. Relationsships & trust is hard…
Plus, you need to stay levelheaded not only because of your own actions but also to notice the possible traps set up to provoke you by your ex. “You may be the best parent in the world and have written a top-selling parenting book, but it only takes one wrong move to disintegrate your parental reputation.”
“So it is best to play it safe and know that your life will soon find a “new normal”, but now is the time to just get through your divorce with your head held high,” Crow suggested.
#13
My dad is a divorce attorney. His clients couldn't decide who would get the Labrador puppy's from a new litter they just breed. The pups are worth $1000 a pop. Well they also hadn't been up to date on their payments. So dad brought a litter of 8 floppy puppy's home as collateral for us to have until they could negotiate the settlement. So much fun for us kids
Qibli of the SandWings 3 years ago (edited)
I hope you went with dad :) (new comment edit: I hope you had fun with the doges)
Jacob Ross 3 years ago
No, the author's dad was the attorney. The attorney held the pups as collateral while the couple sorted out payment.
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emmeline vance 3 years ago (edited)
I'm sorry, do you want them to go to the pound??? even animal shelters require you to pay to adopt. No offense, but you're making it sound like you want the puppies to stay in a shelter, not in an actual loving home. 🤷♀️
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#14
During my first year of law school, a divorce lawyer told us about a well-to-do couple that spent months and months and tens of thousands of dollars fighting over every single thing, all the way down to a single ceramic ashtray. Even after they'd decided on everything else, they spent an additional $100,000 fighting over this ashtray... Well, after a court hearing, the wife finally won the ashtray, and she promptly strode out to the white courthouse steps and smashed it, leaving the pieces for the husband to see on his way out.
Thomas Biorogue 3 years ago
I'm starting to think this is just one of those internet fables. I've heard it so many times. Most times it's an ashtray and sometimes it's some type of ceramic dish or something, a gravy boat. I think it's made up.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
I find this difficult to believe. Courts in Australia would refuse to hear this, and I'd be surprised if family courts in the US would let this waste court time.
kyriebelle 3 years ago
While I think this is a massive waste of court resources and money that could be spent helping others, I have to admit I admire her level of pettiness…
#15
My sister and her ex-husband had agreed in arbitration that he would keep the house and car and that she would keep the furniture and electronics.
My dad and I rented a Uhaul to help her go get her stuff. We figured the amount of stuff she would get would be enough to get about $10-15K off Craigslist.
We arrived at the house to find only an Ikea futon, a smaller TV than they had, an old iMac, and all the outdoor furniture destroyed. We were so devastated for her.
She decided she wanted to close that venomous chapter of her life so she just took her losses rather than fight for stupid possessions.
Happy ending... She finished optometry school and became an optometrist, found a great husband, and is raising two awesome kids.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Wtf is that sort of settlement? How does he get to keep the house and she gets the furniture and white goods? That is hardly equitable. Unless the house was rented.
Frankenfrog 3 years ago
Can't keep a house that's not yours to begin with
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Would have cost her more to fight for the furniture than it was worth. It’s a shame people do this. Happened to me. I resigned to the fact that I’d never get anything that was owed to me and figured it’s the cost of moving on quicker. Anything I ended up with was a bonus. Just had to emotionally distance myself from what was happening but it was still hard
CanadianPanda 3 years ago
Some things and some people just aren't worth the fight or time, obviously he was one of them. You have a very smart and strong sister!
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
She did the right thing!! I have done this one time. Left,Got only My close. But My Life Got to be the healing one. Starting all over completly inkl My self🙏🏻😍
#16
The couple wanted everything split right down the middle, right down to the block of cheese in the fridge.
Lenka Smetanová 3 years ago
this reminds me a funny sketch from TV in my country. The two man there made fake news about divorced family, who split their house in half and everywhere there was a line, and on one side there was a wife and on the other the husband, and husband got the poilet in the bathroom, while the wife get a better view on TV i nthe living room... and they said they going to split their kids and there was a sound of chainsaw in the background :D :D
#17
In the first divorce case I'd ever worked on, the husband waxed every single hair off his body to avoid a court-mandated drug test.
Buren 3 years ago
Wait, I don't know anything about drug test. Is being hairless get you out of it???
Kay blue 3 years ago
Hair can be tested for drugs and it stays in the hair longer than bodily fluids.
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
That should be taken as an admission of drug use. If you were clean, or never used drugs you'd be like "here, I'll pull some out for you".
Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
BS. They can use toenails and fingernails and even a dermal sample for drug longevity testing.
Edison Michael 3 years ago
Yeah, but the theme is not "the most useful things people did during a divorce". It is about the pettiest things.
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Walking On Sunshine 3 years ago
Heads up, now it's fingernails. Hair only goes back 6 months, but fingernails tell everything!
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Susan Hamer Tomkins 4 months ago
Well, I've dealt with this.....I used to assist with d**g screens .......it won't get you out of it, but it can put it on hold long enough for the d***s to be out of your system. But................you'd have to be COMPLETELY HAIRLESS......hair can be taken from ANYWHERE.
#18
The husband gave his wife five of his nine companies — the ones that owed seven figures in payroll taxes. He had made her the bookkeeper on paper, and she spent decades trying to shake the IRS for the results.
Susan Hamer Tomkins 4 months ago
Maybe the wife deserved it....don't know. But folks who do this can never call themselves good people.
Johnnie Hartwell 3 years ago (edited)
It shouldn’t be about money, she obviously only cares about money, so she gets what she deserves.
Natalie Schwartz 3 years ago
Wtf? In a divorce it should be about money and splitting the assets amassed during the marriage?
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Marie Rockets 3 years ago
She should've been more suspicious that he's getting those companies too easy.
#19
I was an assistant at a family law practice, and in one divorce case we had, the wife had started dating someone new who was severely allergic to cats. Well, her ex-husband bought a cat for their kids — knowing that he wasn't allowed to have pets in his apartment — so that his ex-wife would have to keep it at her house.
The wife called us, saying that the kids were distraught she didn't want to keep it, and that her ex-husband told the kids that if their mom loved them, she would keep the cat.
Callie Ge 3 years ago
My Ex did something similar, knowing full well that the place I lived in had a zero cat/dog pets policy, even people that owned their places weren’t allowed to have them. He bought the kids a kitten & gave it to them at his place, they come home with it & I tell him they can’t keep it, he knows they can’t have it & im not willing to get evicted over a cat, so I made him take it back. It took me a few weeks before the kids understood why but as usual I had to be the bad guy.
Susan Hamer Tomkins 4 months ago
I get it, but you can never call yourself, Dad, anything other than a horrible father for damaging your children that way....not a good person, not a decent person. Too many people do this and feel justified because they are angry or hurt. you are NEVER justified to hurt your CHILDREN to get AT your ex
#20
Friend was going through divorce from insane husband. He had been texting her pics of the gun he bought and threatening her. Police were called. Nothing they could do because it was 'only a picture'. He was staying with a secret girlfriend at this point. She allowed him to go get his stuff from the house. She was scared to go back in the house alone. I went with her. First red flag was he had changed the locks. So we waited for locksmith to open the house and change the locks again. Well, when the door opens...we noticed all of the furniture was gone. So we carefully went upstairs in search of her cats. The entire second floor was empty. No cats. No furniture. Even her clothes were gone. Come to find out he hired a moving company to pack and take everything, even the food in the fridge. Finally found the cats. He had taken them to another vet in town and put them up for boarding under his sister's name thinking she would not be able to find them. He was finally forced to disclose what happened to her possessions. He had them taken to a storage unit far away from the home.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
You're stupid if you allow your ex back in your house without you being present. First thing you do when your ex is out of the house is change the locks.
Lisa Reuss 3 years ago
What in the world makes people go from being so in love they get married to hating each other so much they will do anything + everything they can think of to hurt + destroy their spouse? Even if one cheated on the other, they don’t deserve this.
Susan Hamer Tomkins 4 months ago
And why was he not arrested for impeding the course of justice?
#21
Not a lawyer but was a legal intern for a divorce attorney a few years back. Dumbest f**king divorce I ever sat through lasted over two years because they refused to let each other get any ground. I was only there for the last year of the divorce but they argued over who got the Christmas ornaments for 4 months.
Pro tip: If you’re ever in a divorce, saying “sure, take it” is infinitely cheaper than your invoice would be otherwise.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
It's really hard for me to believe that two people who ever loved or cared about each other could be so petty and vicious when things go wrong.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Not everyone marries for love. Not everyone matures the same; my uncle divorced his kids' mom because she stayed the same while he advanced in the navy.
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Maria Mendez 3 years ago
Dang. I made sure to give my ex all of the pictures of him, both as a youth, and those with our daughter as well, because you can't re-take them, you know (1999)?
#22
My cousin's ex-wife wanted half of the house in their divorce — as in, she literally tried to get half of the house demolished just to spite my cousin.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Pure pettiness. I read of a fellow whose malicious compliance gave his wife exactly half of everything - with a chainsaw.
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
In my brother's divorce the judge gave them joint ownership of the house with the idea they would sell it and split the money by a certain date. He didn't want to sell it so he ended up getting refinanced or 2nd mortgage and used the money to pay her half the value of the house.
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
Fool!!!!!! Big time Fool!!!! Screening herself by making the House worth s**t👍🙈😆
#23
A soon-to-be ex-husband left his wife's prized Koi to die on the doorstep of their house. Apparently the value of these fish (six in total) was over $100,000. She was, according to her lawyer, so distraught that she couldn't be in court. Only in LA.
E Menendez 3 years ago
Agreed. And I understand why she was so distraught. I cry when my Beta Fish dies and I am almost 40. Animals are life too.
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Sa Ruuu 3 years ago
Of course she's distraught, her ex husband knowingly and willingly killed an animal to make her upset. I'd be terrified of that sociopath
Lou Lopez 3 years ago
This is a red flag that he's going to kill her next.
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Izzy Curer 3 years ago
I would be distraught, too, and my fish only cost a few bucks. Goldfish are social creatures, very friendly and relatively smart. They're also domesticated, meaning they're more affectionate toward humans than wild carp. I don't see how willfully killing someone's pet can even be legal. I hope he was charged.
#24
She accused her ex-husband of sexually molesting their children while under the watchful eye of the nationally endorsed social workers who oversaw his contact with them (which was only required because he didn’t have his own private accommodation at the time). She also said that his Indian flatmates were inherently “dirty”. After the obviously false child molestation suggestion I warned her of the consequences of being caught lying about that (i.e. permanent loss of custody). She fired me but kept calling back using fake names to try and obtain free advice which contradicted my advice, but everyone she called immediately spotted her. This was a long time ago and now I specialise in insurance litigation, which is far less ugly.
LivingTheDream 3 years ago
I've seen so many horrible custody battles with false allegations to change child support/custody. Not a single one has EVER had consequences for false accusations.
Travis Fox 3 years ago (edited)
My uncle's ex wife accused him of the same thing. And despite the doctor saying it really didn't look like the kid ( age 4 at the time) had been molested the judge believed her. He spent a total 14 years of a 30 year sentence. His kid turned 16 and went to the police. Then it took Duke University legal team years to get him out even with his son saying his mom had made him lie about it all these years. Our justice system is F*CKED.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 3 years ago
I spent years in fear that my ex sister in law would make an accusation against my father. She wouldn't make it against my brother because she liked being able to dump the kids in him whenever she had better things to do.
hilary rudd 3 years ago
My daughter ex's ex wife tried that and when he was cleared said if you don't stop seeing yr daughter I'll say it's yr brothers who were like 12 and 8 at the time
Lara Verne 3 years ago
Many people play dirty in divorce. I heard about divorce, where husband tried to get custody of his daughter. So he made a false accusation that ex-wife's boyfriend was sexually abusing his daughter.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Haha, I've always said that. Give me criminal law, where you have decent clients, over family or wills and estates, where the clients are frequently vile.
Susan Hamer Tomkins 4 months ago
OH YES, THEY SHOULD also BE CHARGED THE COST OF THE INVESTIGATION......TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS USUALLY
Susan Hamer Tomkins 4 months ago
EVERY SPOUSE WHO MAKES THOSE ALLEGATIONS AND THEY ARE FALSE, SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED CUSTODY AND SHOULD BE JAILED.
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
Some Day the kids are Old enough to learn the reallity. They ask over the years,Why and what happened when Mummy & Daddy Got divorced. For a vile U Can lie….. Just don’t make all kind of s**t up. Think about that someday U’r Kids ain’t Kids No more!!!
#25
I worked in family law for three years as a Paralegal. Once we had a client request us to represent them and make them look like the more incompetent parent so the kids would stay with the other party per the parenting plan 100% of the time. The client wanted us to prove that they were not fit to watch children under any circumstances - unfortunately for them the other party tried to show that they were the incompetent one and our client should have the kids 100% of the time.
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
Their behavior proves both of them exactly as unqualified to rear a child as they wanted to.
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Papa Bonez 3 years ago
Sounds like the kids would be better off with a different family. Both were unfit to be parents. So sad.
Lisa Reuss 3 years ago
This is despicable. These people aren’t hurting each other, they’re hurting their children. What a disgusting way to behave.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Not everyone works to prevent pregnancy, and even some who do become parents. Abortion isn't legal everywhere, hence unwanted children. And lots of folks don't realize how expensive and time-consuming it can be so they want to foist the responsibility on the other.
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#26
I worked on a divorce in which the wife waited for her husband to leave the house on a business trip, then came to the house, turned on all of the faucets, plugged the drains, turned off the furnace, and left. It was -10 degrees.
When the husband came back five days later, the house was ruined, and the water froze and cracked the foundation.
Mindghost 3 years ago
Did she get a fine, jail or headline in the local newspaper for this **** ?
David Gripon 3 years ago
Nah. She probably received a settlement for breaking a fingernail while destroying his property.
Load More Replies... Mark Glickman 3 years ago
Yeah, that's straight up felony vandalism in my state. She would be looking at 3-5 years in prison and restitution. You can mess with the husband, but the second you mess with the insurance company's bottom line, you've got problems!
Fabian Meresse 3 years ago
I'll never get how people can get mean, stupid, and mostly playing against themselves on every aspect... Isn't it sad enough ? Can't they remember that one day they met, loved each other and build positive things for years, only to end up doing s....y things to each other and not trying to keep the best ? Except in case of abusive husband/ wife I'll never get that
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
Can’t believe they can’t see its There money too,that’s running Down the drain when they do that kind of s**t!!!!🙄😳🙈
#27
He owed her $500 as part of the settlement. He brought two buckets of unsorted coins (mostly pennies) to our office.
She took the light bulbs out of every fixture when she moved out, then refused to give him right of first refusal if she wanted to get rid of their dog.
She spent a year and a half systematically destroying their business and then expected him to pay her hundreds of thousands of dollars for her share of the (now worthless) business.
Kona Pake 3 years ago
When a person sells a home in the UK, they usually take the carpeting, light bulbs and other items with them.
Jenny Pugh 3 years ago
Not always. You have a list on which you state what you will be leaving behind which includes carpets, lightbulbs, curtains/blinds etc.
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#28
I worked in family courts when I was first starting out, and the most memorable case I saw was when the wife literally took everything from the house. She even ripped out the carpets!
Some Cool Guy 3 years ago
When my mother left my farther she took everything (not the carpet) and left a single beer on the counter. Damn she was cold.
Parmeisan 3 years ago
She might have been cold, but the beer wasn't. (Part of the plan, I assume.) ;)
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Fabian Meresse 3 years ago
Yeah... parents destroying each other : Dad is sad, Mom is sad, children pay the consequences. So clever
#29
Most malicious thing I know of personally involved a coworker of mine. He was sleeping with a married woman, and ultimately the husband found out she was having an affair. Really ugly divorce ensues, during which they fought over a lot of assets, but the real point of contention was their dog, lovely GSD named Orion. Eventually, husband gets custody of the dog, and in under a month, has the dog put down, just to hurt her back for the affair.
Heather Wright 3 years ago
I was a vet tech & the vet put a 1yo pup down because it tore up the pups owners couch. The other techs & I cried but couldn't stop it. I no longer work with animals. Too heart breaking.
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Monday 3 years ago
I wish we could make it illegal to put animals down who don't have serious health issues.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I used to run a storage facility. I once ended up in the unenviable position of having a husband and wife in a bitter divorce both rent units from me. I gave them units in different areas so they wouldn't run into each other. I put notes on their account so my staff wouldn't say anything by mistake. The last battle in their divorce was for the dog. Long story short, I ended up making a call about a really bad smell that I thought might be gas. The services came and it turned out to be coming from a unit, the one the husband had recently moved out of. In it was a large heavy duty plastic bag. In that bag was half a dog.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
this hit close to home for me. after leaving my very abusive husband to go to a shelter i returned to my family home. i later discovered that the bastard shot my dog when he found i had left. have always hoped karma came around and bit him in the ass for that act.
Human person 3 years ago
A dog is a living being who loves their owner, not a piece of trash to throw away out of spite.
#30
Not a divorce lawyer but remember this from another Reddit.
husband and wife getting divorced. There was a classic car Ferrari, jaguar or something like that that was worth a lot of money. It was a bone of contention in the divorce. After several months the husband finally proposes that he will let her have the car if she gives him the house. She agrees. Come to find out he had been taking the car out everyday and doing loops around the city for hours putting thousands of miles on it making it worth nothing.
Thenatural 3 years ago
I'm not convinced....just putting a few thousand miles on the clock isn't going to devalue a high end car to zero ....Even if you drove for 200 miles every day for a whole year,which I very much doubt(no one has that amount of spare time) it's only 70 odd thousand....so no,not for me
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Don't get why you are downvoted, mileage is not a very important factor in the value of a classic car. Being undamaged, unmodified and original are more important.
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
A real classic car never becomes worth nothing. Even if he had managed to put 100 000 miles on it in a year, the car would still be worth a considerable amount of money.
Troux 3 years ago (edited)
Mileage is a significant factor, particularly if it's not a very popular classic, or if the mileage was exceptionally low. Still, there's no way it was "worth nothing," but I wonder how many miles he managed to put on.
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Leodavinci 3 years ago
Most of the replies here are speculation. It really depends on the car. Low miles and matching numbers do add considerable value to a car. Another factor not mentioned is maintenance. If he add sufficient miles without any servicing, then it would have done damage to the car and devalued it.
Alexandra Grey 3 years ago
A custom Ferrari can be worth half a million easily. An early Aston Martin, ditto. Especially in excellent condition.
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Mileage doesn't add/ lessen the value on classic cars. Only overall condition counts. Probably b.....t story
#31
Articled at a family law firm, thankfully moved on since.
Worst I saw was a decades long case. Husband had been in a motorcycle accident, suffered brain damage. Has severely limited capacity going forward. Got a huge settlement afterwards.
Wife spent the next several years stealing the entirety of the guy's money and property variously by forging his signature or putting documents in front of him that he couldn't understand and telling him they were something benign so he'd sign it.
She then forged a bunch of letters from a tax authority and convinced him he was about to go to jail and further convinced him to flee the country.
He finally came back several years later to find out everything he owned was in her name and one of the documents he was told to sign were divorce papers.
Dude got left with nothing. I moved on before I found out how the story ended.
Béla Kun 3 years ago
I don't think a severely brain damaged persons signature would be legally binding
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
It may not be, but depending how she's tied up the money it might be difficult to get. And if she's gone through with it with no assets to show for it, he'll get nothing.
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#32
Not a lawyer, but a child of divorce. My parents owned a couple duplexes in town as well as our house. They had saved enough up to pay a property off in full and my dad convinced my mom that it was better to pay off one of the duplexes instead of the house. A couple months later he files for divorce and only asks for the paid off property. He got it, lived in one side and rented out the other and stuck my mom with 2 kids and 3 mortgages (and of course refused to pay child support for my sister because she wasn't his biodaughter even though he had legally adopted her). Still makes me feel icky how conniving he was.
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
One of the properties could have had a second mortgage. That’s not uncommon.
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Jonny Keeton 3 years ago
I don’t know why I’m here. I don’t understand half of the things they say here. Kinda disappointing as I’m 15
#33
My uncle's ex tried to work it in that she would get half of whatever my grandmother would leave him when she passes. Joke's on her, my grandmother is passing over her kids (not maliciously, my uncle is very well off and so is my mom) and leaving everything to my brother and me.
Oh, also tried to get sole custody of both of their children...who are in their twenty's...
#34
A friends ex wife and he settled their divorce with her getting the house, a hefty chunk of retirement, all the gifted jewelry and his Harley she had gifted him for his birthday.
A few weeks later, a “robbery” occurred and the only thing that was stolen was the jewelry that he had gifted her, which was intended for their daughter. She tried to file an insurance claim on the jewelry but forgot to get appraisals and add as Riders so the max insurance paid was $1,500 for over $20,000 of jewelry. Suspicion is she staged it but is now stuck with “stolen” jewelry she can’t legally sell, nor wear, nor give to the daughter without tipping the dad off to the scam.
#35
I’m not a lawyer, but I work as a legal assistant for a family lawyer. The ex-husband was getting remarried. 1) His ex-wife sent him and his new fiancé a dozen black roses before their wedding. 2) His ex-wife then had a plane fly across during their wedding, dragging a sign that read “(name of ex-husband) likes it up the butt.” You can’t make this stuff up. Sad part is, she was not well and had been in and out of psych wards over the years. I hope she’s getting the help she needs now!
#36
Worked at an airport. Big burly guy brings an ugly ass dog in a crate to the counter, he is clearly misty eyed. Turns out wife got the dog in the divorce and he has to send it to her and she told him as soon as she gets it she is putting it down. He asks if he can have some time with the dog before the flight so they go out in the grass and they both roll around in the grass, dogs tail just waggin away not knowing anything about his future. The guy puts him back in the crate drops him off the counter says thanks and then just walked out head down and just looking crushed. That was 30 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
Anyone who would kill a dog out of spite deserves to die a very very painful death.
Zephyr Anthem 3 years ago
Yet they do... they even mutilate their ears and tails for looks... Money buys everything and some vet are heartless
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Chriss21 3 years ago
I'm sorry, I know why. I just can't understand it...
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#37
Not a lawyer. But my partner has a mate who was going through a messy divorce. He registered as a “gambling addict” and went to some gambling anonymous (or whatever it’s called) and proceeded to go to the casino every day, taking wads of cash with him, pretending to gamble it all away, while he was secretly squirreling it all away. That way, when it came to the divorce and he was questioned where all his money went, he could “prove” that he lost it all through his gambling addiction and never had to pay her a penny.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Hiding for later use, like a squirrel does with nuts.
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#38
I read about a divorce whose settlement included the shared custody of a parrot. Neither party was allowed to teach the parrot to swear at the other one.
#39
Divorce lawyer. Accusing their former spouse of forcing them into prostitution. Text messages revealed they were actually just swingers. She also admitted to lying in order to "make him burn." I can't wait to leave my practice area.
Walking On Sunshine 3 years ago
CLA here. Domestic is the worst! Give me criminals anyday, at least you know what they are when you see them.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
and in my experience, the criminal clients are usually blessedly normal and laid back people
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When my parents got a divorce and all the financial stuff was settled, my mom agreed to take on the existing debt they had. As the paperwork was filed and things progressed with finalizing the divorce, my dad went out and ran his credit cards up to their limit buying himself new home entertainment toys and random s**t. To the tune of about 12K. There was nothing my mom could legally do about it so she was forced to slowly pay it off over the next 10 years.
LivingTheDream 3 years ago
Your mom had a s**t lawyer. Once the agreement is finalized, no new debt can be incurred by the other party. Any debt dad incurred and did not disclose would be considered fraud. Judges do not like fraud.
Thomas Price 3 years ago
Surely if the wording was “existing” debt then any new debt run up after this was signed wouldn’t count
#41
Our office worked on a messy divorce in which the parties were required to split up some antique pots. Well, when the husband delivered the wife's share of the pots to our office, he [pooped] in each one.
#42
I have a friend who went through a nasty divorce with a cheating spouse. His wife wanted the money from some penny stocks that did really well. He told her ok if you pay the $75 (somewhere around there) transfer fee you can have then. She did. Little did she know the stocks had taken a massive dive and were now worth less than the transfer fee.
#43
Not my divorce, but my divorce lawyer told me about a case she was involved in where both clients were so petty that they had to all meet to argue over literally every single scrap of everything. The final object that neither would settle on was a ceramic rabbit statue, a really generic one from Home Depot or whatever. Zero sentimental value but since it was the final item, neither side wanted to "lose" the last thing and they dragged it out over 3 separate meetings for this one thing. I don't remember which ended up getting it, but once they settled it and signed everything, the "winning" party stuck it on their lawyer's desk as a gift and walked out.
#44
I'm not a divorce lawyer , but ... My prior employer once was 'served' with an obviously forged garnishment 'order' from an employee's (ex?) wife, directing garnishment of his wages in an amount that far exceeded his actual wages. We reported it to the police department.
#45
I am not really a divorce lawyer but I am currently stuck with a divorce case. Both sides have been at a standstill for at least four months now over a difference of less than a thousand dollars. Like, we could have settled late 2019 but they both just want one last "I won" over the other one. Doesn't help that I hate family law cases to begin with - the only winners are the attorneys and they have to go through a lot of booze to cope with the stuff they deal with.
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
People make jokes about lawyers but really, so many issues are the clients.
#46
Paralegal for a divorce lawyer here. Our client told us he didn't clear out the marital account after the parties filed. Which technically is true, because while he removed $45,000 he left about $3.50 in there.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
Whoa, give him a pat on the back for the restraint he showed, clearly so difficult to leave that $3.50 in the bank. He didn't even leave enough for a service charge, which most banks have after your account has a balance that low. She'd be lucky to catch it before it went into the red. He's a piece of garbage.
#47
Not a Lawyer, But my mom forged divorce papers to cheat on my dad. For 2 years i got my ass beat whenever i brought it up.
John L 3 years ago (edited)
Most likely she cheated on him and when/if the other person asked, she was "legally" divorced. Saved her the trouble of having to "sneak" around.
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I knew a guy that got out of the military at 19 years so his ex wouldn't get half his pension. He would rather get nothing than give half the pension to his ex if he stayed in one more year.
John L 3 years ago
Ouch...I don't know if that's truly petty as it was his pension, even if she was entitled to half. After all, he did the time, not her.
Eepe 3 years ago
Yeah, he did the time and would have to give half to her.
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#49
I’m a lawyer but have had a very limited amount of experience in divorce cases. The first case I ever worked the husband shaved/waxed every single hair off his body in an attempt to avoid a court-mandated drug test.
Leodavinci 3 years ago
Why on earth are divorce cases even resulting in court mandated drug tests?
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Sathe Wesker 3 years ago
Man, my parents separated when I was 5. Amicable as all hell, never even got a legal divorce and she is now technically a widow. My freaking dad MOVED IN to the house with me, mom and bloody stepdad when I was 12. Stepdad would have a typical relationship argument with mom and go downstairs to share a beer with dad a bitch about it. Strange, for sure, but it was normal to me and they all raised me well, all loving. These stories piss me off… I’ve never been remotely close to this type of bitterness with any ex. I’m grateful for the way I was raised because of that (and, well, many other reasons).
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I was the major money earner in my marriage. I bought everything. That was fine with me. I lived in a country where women didn't have legal rights. Both wife and children belonged by law to the husband. When I realized I needed to leave my marriage if I wanted to live, I made a very simple choice. I gave my husband everything, cars, home, contents, jewellery, electronics, tens of thousands of dollars in savings everything, as long as I could take my child to safety. It was touch and go till the very last minute whether he would let me go, since he had the right to take our child off the plane and leave me on it. But in the end, he wanted stuff, and he didn't want to be a father, so we were able to go. It was not easy being completely destitute, but nothing would ever have been worth more than the wellbeing of my child, and in the end, I gave everything I had for her and will never regret it.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Jesus. You are a brave woman. Your children should be proud to have you as a mother
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Buren 3 years ago
Have to stop reading. How sad it is to imagine someone you used to love turns into ugly manure of human being, and how it must affect your ability to trust again in the future.
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
Same. My ability to trust is already low because of bad experiences when I was younger, and I’ve never dated as a result. This just makes me even less willing to date.
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Why on earth did this show up in the funny section? BP, you need to read things before you label them.
Walking On Sunshine 3 years ago
I worked for lawyers for 22 years. Once we had a client come in for divorce and he immediately told us he failed a drug test for meth. But he claimed he only took prescription Zantac and that's what caused the failure. While this is true in some cases, it is extremely rare. And he had no prescription. But he had a new Harley and the scumbag lawyer said, "that'll be mine soon." I absolutely detest family law.
Rider 3 years ago
As a kid I watched my mom go through 2 divorces, neither come close to any of these. She got shafted on the second divorce, loser had lost his job for sexual harassment and no one would hire him for years. She had to buy back half the house, payoff his truck, and give him alimony. Plus pay for all our therapy for living with that sociopath (clinically diagnosed).
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
The animal ones make me sick. Imagine killing an animal just for the sake of being petty. Imagine knowing you’re shipping your beloved pet off to die and you can’t do anything about it just because your ex is petty. I feel so bad for the people that have to go through that! My dog is like family and I can’t imagine the horror these people go through!
Riley Beard 3 years ago
When Mom and Dad split apart, my mom threw her [$6,000] green diamond ring off the balcony. She was really chemically unbalanced, but what the hell, mom.
Chancey 3 years ago
I hate when people do stuff like this or destroy property. Such a waste.
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Jessica Ann Helm 3 years ago
When my parents divorced when I was 1, they were 10 times better then even the best stories above. They kept their relationship civil regarding me. Having split custody were I would go to the school at my mums, and go to my dads during the holidays. If there was any resentment, they never showed it when I was around. Making a child suffer during a divorce is inexcusable and cruel. And parents willing to do that should have never been parents in the first place
Sathe Wesker 3 years ago
Man, my parents separated when I was 5. Amicable as all hell, never even got a legal divorce and she is now technically a widow. My freaking dad MOVED IN to the house with me, mom and bloody stepdad when I was 12. Stepdad would have a typical relationship argument with mom and go downstairs to share a beer with dad a bitch about it. Strange, for sure, but it was normal to me and they all raised me well, all loving. These stories piss me off… I’ve never been remotely close to this type of bitterness with any ex. I’m grateful for the way I was raised because of that (and, well, many other reasons).
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I was the major money earner in my marriage. I bought everything. That was fine with me. I lived in a country where women didn't have legal rights. Both wife and children belonged by law to the husband. When I realized I needed to leave my marriage if I wanted to live, I made a very simple choice. I gave my husband everything, cars, home, contents, jewellery, electronics, tens of thousands of dollars in savings everything, as long as I could take my child to safety. It was touch and go till the very last minute whether he would let me go, since he had the right to take our child off the plane and leave me on it. But in the end, he wanted stuff, and he didn't want to be a father, so we were able to go. It was not easy being completely destitute, but nothing would ever have been worth more than the wellbeing of my child, and in the end, I gave everything I had for her and will never regret it.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Jesus. You are a brave woman. Your children should be proud to have you as a mother
Load More Replies... Buren 3 years ago
Have to stop reading. How sad it is to imagine someone you used to love turns into ugly manure of human being, and how it must affect your ability to trust again in the future.
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
Same. My ability to trust is already low because of bad experiences when I was younger, and I’ve never dated as a result. This just makes me even less willing to date.
Load More Replies... Juno French 3 years ago
Why on earth did this show up in the funny section? BP, you need to read things before you label them.
Walking On Sunshine 3 years ago
I worked for lawyers for 22 years. Once we had a client come in for divorce and he immediately told us he failed a drug test for meth. But he claimed he only took prescription Zantac and that's what caused the failure. While this is true in some cases, it is extremely rare. And he had no prescription. But he had a new Harley and the scumbag lawyer said, "that'll be mine soon." I absolutely detest family law.
Rider 3 years ago
As a kid I watched my mom go through 2 divorces, neither come close to any of these. She got shafted on the second divorce, loser had lost his job for sexual harassment and no one would hire him for years. She had to buy back half the house, payoff his truck, and give him alimony. Plus pay for all our therapy for living with that sociopath (clinically diagnosed).
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
The animal ones make me sick. Imagine killing an animal just for the sake of being petty. Imagine knowing you’re shipping your beloved pet off to die and you can’t do anything about it just because your ex is petty. I feel so bad for the people that have to go through that! My dog is like family and I can’t imagine the horror these people go through!
Riley Beard 3 years ago
When Mom and Dad split apart, my mom threw her [$6,000] green diamond ring off the balcony. She was really chemically unbalanced, but what the hell, mom.
Chancey 3 years ago
I hate when people do stuff like this or destroy property. Such a waste.
Load More Replies... Jessica Ann Helm 3 years ago
When my parents divorced when I was 1, they were 10 times better then even the best stories above. They kept their relationship civil regarding me. Having split custody were I would go to the school at my mums, and go to my dads during the holidays. If there was any resentment, they never showed it when I was around. Making a child suffer during a divorce is inexcusable and cruel. And parents willing to do that should have never been parents in the first place
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