I didn't want to take another thread in a different direction, so I am making this one.
In listening to a cheating wife talking about wanting to divorce, but wanting alimony, I'll tell you what happened in my divorce.
I put this in CWI because her cheating made me bound and determined to not give her any more than the entitled 50% of marital assets.
I had a bulldog of an attorney. As anyone that has been through a divorce might know, usually when the first letter from the other spouses attorney comes in, that spouse is asking for EVERYTHING. This is a stupid lawyer's trick.
When I first saw it I went nuts. My attorney told me to calm down that she isn't getting half the stuff they are asking for. That is just where they start and you negotiate down from there.
He told me, "this is going to be my strategy" since she was asking for alimony, the house and all equity, yadda yadda yadda.
His strategy was to waste her attorneys time, while using very little resources that he wouldn't be billing me for.
So what he did, with each meeting, her and her attorney would present their ridiculous list of demands.
He'd look at them for about 30 seconds, pass it back over to her attorney and simply said, "No" to everything on the list, and to "come back when its reasonable, this meeting is over"
So he'd bill me for about 10 minutes of time, while her attorney would end up having to bill her for an hour or two because he now had to go back and spend time to revise it..
He'd call my attorney later, 5 minutes billed to me, list off the demands, my attorney says, "still no"....back to the drawing board for her attorney...another good hour of billable time.
So finally she ended up telling me and her attorney that she can't afford to go back and forth any more. The my attorney said, "no alimony, house goes to my client, 1/2 of what little equity in it goes to your client, payable by adding to the amount coming out of my retirement, which wasn't much since we weren't married that many years".
Done deal. They tried to get me to pay her attorneys fees. Guess what my attorneys answer was? :rofl:
So the long and short of it, my attorney was going to waste their time until they stopped being greedy and stupid.
Anyone else got some good divorce stories when they got rid of their cheating POS spouses?
In listening to a cheating wife talking about wanting to divorce, but wanting alimony, I'll tell you what happened in my divorce.
I put this in CWI because her cheating made me bound and determined to not give her any more than the entitled 50% of marital assets.
I had a bulldog of an attorney. As anyone that has been through a divorce might know, usually when the first letter from the other spouses attorney comes in, that spouse is asking for EVERYTHING. This is a stupid lawyer's trick.
When I first saw it I went nuts. My attorney told me to calm down that she isn't getting half the stuff they are asking for. That is just where they start and you negotiate down from there.
He told me, "this is going to be my strategy" since she was asking for alimony, the house and all equity, yadda yadda yadda.
His strategy was to waste her attorneys time, while using very little resources that he wouldn't be billing me for.
So what he did, with each meeting, her and her attorney would present their ridiculous list of demands.
He'd look at them for about 30 seconds, pass it back over to her attorney and simply said, "No" to everything on the list, and to "come back when its reasonable, this meeting is over"
So he'd bill me for about 10 minutes of time, while her attorney would end up having to bill her for an hour or two because he now had to go back and spend time to revise it..
He'd call my attorney later, 5 minutes billed to me, list off the demands, my attorney says, "still no"....back to the drawing board for her attorney...another good hour of billable time.
So finally she ended up telling me and her attorney that she can't afford to go back and forth any more. The my attorney said, "no alimony, house goes to my client, 1/2 of what little equity in it goes to your client, payable by adding to the amount coming out of my retirement, which wasn't much since we weren't married that many years".
Done deal. They tried to get me to pay her attorneys fees. Guess what my attorneys answer was? :rofl:
So the long and short of it, my attorney was going to waste their time until they stopped being greedy and stupid.
Anyone else got some good divorce stories when they got rid of their cheating POS spouses?
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