Did modern divorce law kill Robin Williams? When I first heard about his death this was the first question I asked myself. Listening to commentary about the possible explanations for his suicide, I heard it mentioned that he had financial problems and that his latest show had not been renewed by CBS. Somehow I knew there must be a lot more to this.
Sure enough, when I googled "Robin Williams divorce" I found several hits, including a posting on movietone.com containing the text from a Parade interview with him in 2013, which included the following (underlining mine):
"...Another thing he can't afford? One more divorce. When asked if he'd lost all his money to his exes, Williams admitted that his failed marriages have taken a sizable chunk out of his bank account. "Well, not all. Lost enough," he told the magazine. "Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet. Are things good with my exes? Yes. But do I need that lifestyle? No." Williams also discussed relapsing on alcohol and his family's intervention in 2006. In the interview, he discussed attending Alcoholics Anonymous saying, "I felt so good about the first AA meeting I attended that I went out and drank the next day." He was persuaded to come back after a friend encouraged him, saying, "Hey, we don't shoot our wounded. Come back."
So there it is. He had three wives and, with the brutal, anti-male "community property", alimony and no-fault divorce law in California, I'm sure that they had set him up for a big cash-out one day. After suffering these "divisions" of assets and impositions of huge alimony orders, I theorize that it didn't take much of an additional setback to make him give up hope.
How can something like this happen in a country which is supposed to be free and just? How can it also happen to thousands of other men, not only in California but all over the U.S., every year?? >
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Sure enough, when I googled "Robin Williams divorce" I found several hits, including a posting on movietone.com containing the text from a Parade interview with him in 2013, which included the following (underlining mine):
"...Another thing he can't afford? One more divorce. When asked if he'd lost all his money to his exes, Williams admitted that his failed marriages have taken a sizable chunk out of his bank account. "Well, not all. Lost enough," he told the magazine. "Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet. Are things good with my exes? Yes. But do I need that lifestyle? No." Williams also discussed relapsing on alcohol and his family's intervention in 2006. In the interview, he discussed attending Alcoholics Anonymous saying, "I felt so good about the first AA meeting I attended that I went out and drank the next day." He was persuaded to come back after a friend encouraged him, saying, "Hey, we don't shoot our wounded. Come back."
So there it is. He had three wives and, with the brutal, anti-male "community property", alimony and no-fault divorce law in California, I'm sure that they had set him up for a big cash-out one day. After suffering these "divisions" of assets and impositions of huge alimony orders, I theorize that it didn't take much of an additional setback to make him give up hope.
How can something like this happen in a country which is supposed to be free and just? How can it also happen to thousands of other men, not only in California but all over the U.S., every year?? >
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