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divorce lawyers of Reddit what are some of your most memorable cases had a husband and wife go toe-to-toe over an ashtray they got in Vegas at some point neither smoked strangely enough spent nearly five thousand dollars for me in another attorney to Duke it out in court over the silly thing prior to proceeding I explained what the cost would be for to hug you over something silly like this and that he could give me $2,500 and I would fly to Vegas for the weekend and get him an identical one instead he said he didn't care about the costs because he intended to smash it on the courthouse steps in front of her if we won we won and he followed through with the Smashing he laughed and said the look on her face was worth much more than $2,500 people get crazy in divorce proceedings not a lawyer but as a courthouse Clark I had a court order come across my desk that explicitly banned a father from playing minercraft with his son over the internet because the ex-wife alleged that the in-game chat was a form of improper contact that wasn't outlined in their custody visitation plan I wouldn't recommend it but one of the best ways to stick it to your ex and to skip must have fallout is to die during the legal battle in this case the couple orally was declared divorced but before the official paperwork is finalized the husband dies so what does a court do when it takes the courts two years to sort out how this should be handled and then the court says that the divorce proceedings must continue with somebody to represent the husband's interests so now the wife has to divide everything 50 stroked fifty with a dead man if he had died two weeks sooner she would have avoided years of court hearings thousands in legal fees and kept everything for herself my aunt has been divorced for quite some time she drives her attorney crazy with her requests demands most recently she took her husband to court over one he switched the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy from her the ex-wife to their children - she wants court-ordered drug tests weekly she found out from her friend who works at a pharmacy that he has had quite a few narcotic prescriptions but obviously can't enter that into evidence or friend will be fired three wants to know the days he's working in locations so she can have her private investigator keep an eye out and make sure the new girlfriend isn't joining him at hotels he's charging on his work card at some point she just needs to let it go and move on she got the house and the house payments the kids the boat and the mariette points he doesn't pay alimony or child support so it seems like it worked out well I once represented a client from a divorcing couple who still lived together pending the sale of the family home but would not speak to one another for any reason whatsoever and to negotiate terms with opposing counsel for the sharing of refrigerator space wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a second refrigerator than to pay two lawyers to argue over the space in one probably not because they have to go through their lawyers to decide who's going to get the old fridge and who's going to fork out money for a new one my brother is a divorce attorney his most memorable case he was representing a guy in a divorce custody battle who was accused of horriffic child abuse very graphic very detailed depositions from the young kids against daddy things look grim then my brother a failed actor notices the deposition transcript done by social workers under oath contains a question at the end from one of the kids did I hit my marks he wonders how little kids know about acting jargon subpoenas wife's personal checking accounts during discovery sure enough acting lessons the poses an extremely sketchy acting coach and panicked coach produces DVDs of practice interrogations with the kids hours of coaching the kids on exactly what imaginary things to say about Daddy he says it was his one and only Perry Mason moment in 20 plus years of practice and had got sole custody of the kids case one ponderin couple came in for divorce consult I informed them I could only represent and advise one of them and wife called first so I am representing her he furiously storms out two days later he hides in the bushes outside the house where she is staying when she leaves to go to work he jumps out in decapitate so with a machete two small kids in the house terrible sheet case two on the day of a divorce trial involving adultery grounds opposing counsel produces photos of my male client the husband wearing land jury and long brown wake blowing another dude I successfully exclude this from evidence on the grounds of relevance because the wife was the photographer my mom works in divorce court she comes home with stories that are interesting sat funny and sometimes just weird in what you would expect for the most part then there are the drug addicts that don't want to give up custody the day of the drug test comes and the person miraculously decided to shave their entire body tests are now given right after the judge asks for one and some are hilarious when you are not the one involved my favorite is a voicemail is played in court as evidence the wife is cheating on the guy this voicemail is from the husband to the wife hey I know you are there the only reason you can't answer is because I know you can't speak with that guy's big to be in your mouth sometimes my mom has those stories which are funny if you are not involved I'm a tax lawyer not a divorce one but this case from my native RI has always been a favorite of mine for the legal argument and an example of what ex-spouses can do Johnson V Johnson which was heard before the Supreme Court of RI a man calls his wife uh who wore in a crowded restaurant she sues him for slander the court agrees with him that she's a who wore edit since you will like this one Stambaugh skeevy Ackley is the case that says as a matter of law the house is haunted one of my all-time favorites is the marriage of Thomas and Denise Rossi I am not connected to the case but it was a notorious case that resulted in a published California Court of Appeal opinion which means that all the details of public record Denise Rossi won 1.3 million dollars as part of a group of care workers who joined a lottery pool together 11 days later she filed for divorce and moved out she never mentioned the winning lottery ticket to Thomas she also did not disclose the proceeds as either her separate property or as community property during the divorce and she would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for the letter that was sent to the marital residence over two years after the divorce had been finalized the letter was an offer to buy out Denise's lottery annuity with a lump sum payment thomas promptly lowered up in the family court awarded 100 percent of the prize proceeds to thomas for the legally curious please understand that California is a community property state which means among other things that all learnings during marriage are community property that is owned equally by both spouses anything obtained using community property funds like a lottery ticket is also community property there are also heavy penalties for violating the disclosure requirements that come along with a divorce in California family law matters you must disclose all of your assets to the other side even if there is no question that some of the assets of your separate property in any case where a party to divorce fraudulently conceals a community property asset as with neuroses it is mandatory under Family Code section 1104 the court award 100% of the asset to the other party and other penalties can also be applied for the legally nerdy the case citation is 90 calories app for 34 worked for a family law lawyer in Santa Cruz one of their frequent opponents a decent if aggressive lawyer just down the street got a package gum wrapped lighted Christmas present he picked it up and it blew up in his face blew off most of his fingers and left shrapnel in his face and chest last I heard he dropped out of the legal profession happened on Christmas Eve in 1996 worked as courtroom clark front desk when i was in college a couple argued on the custody details on their son i thought it was the normal i won't let you see him you piece of sheet but the mom wants the dad to spend more time during holidays together all three of them and the dad wants to do the same just more frequently they ended up reconciled and agreed to couples therapy before the divorce procedure went further then they came back a month later to withdraw the divorce proceeding my first trial my client was being sued for a divorce on grounds of habitual cruel and inhuman treatment her husband alleged that she grabbed his big did really hard and hurted he alleged it was on purpose I had to cross-examine him about it [Music] I had a case where the husband found some incriminating texts on his wife's phone that she was cheating on him with some guy and also gets the impression his sister-in-law might be in on it in some way him and his brother end up hiring a PI to tell them both to get the truth they essentially confirm that both women are seeing other people the sister-in-law admitted full guilt of sleeping with another man and they attempted to reconcile but his brother eventually filed for divorce the one wife admitted she was looking to sleep with a guy but they only met for some kisses and she touched his pen 15 a little bit and hoping that would prove that she was still faithful since she couldn't go through with it he filed for divorce anyway also a serious tack helps these kinds of threats I'm a real-estate lawyer but a friend of a friend is a divorce lawyer I was once told the story where said lawyer was brutally attacked by a client's former spouse apparently the former spouse blamed the divorce attorney for taking him to the cleaners in the divorce the worst part is that the lawyer was at the grocery store doing his weekly food shopping with his wife and kids when he was savagely beaten criminal lawyers work with the worst people on their best behavior family lawyers work with the best people on their worst behavior edit Thank You kind stranger for my first reddit gold you da real MVP my grandfather went through a pretty high stakes divorce about ten years ago he founded a consulting firm in 1994 that ended up being worth several million dollars he was married to his second wife not my grandmother who was his first wife whom he divorced in the 80s when he founded it she was is an executive for a large health and beauty product company they were both very successful when they divorced they had been living in a very large house in an exclusive neighborhood in an affluent southern suburb she got the house and kept her wealth that she had amassed from her company but that wasn't it she also wanted 51% of my grandfather's company she didn't win that in court because she had already won more than half of the assets I doubt my grandfather really gave a duck about that but I could be wrong he just wanted to keep his company which already made him plenty of money things got interesting after they separated she allegedly hired a private investigator to stalk my grandfather yes stalk we found a tracking device attached to his car no [ __ ] he moved into an apartment for a while during the divorce proceedings she and her lawyer eventually went to his apartment to take pictures of everything he owned he obviously let them into his apartment they even opened up his fridge in took pictures of the inside of his fridge my grandfather eventually started dating somebody else yes at around age 60 he likes women and the ex-wife would call my grandfather's house and talk to her trying to appear friendly or something it was just a very strange situation it was even stranger for me I had grown up with her sort of as my grandmother I never knew she wasn't my actual grandmother until I met my dad's actual mom at age 7 I didn't meet my father until age 6 mind you it was kind of confusing until the divorce but during and after the divorce my grandfather's ex would call my mother to ask to take me out to dinner and movies and things like that I remember seeing Star Wars Episode three in theaters with her I didn't find it strange or anything she had known me since I was born and served as a grandmotherly figure however my father hated her I heard a lot of stories of the crazy sheets sheeted to him when my dad was a teenager I haven't talked to her for several years I much prefer my actual grandmother divorce is strange seeing how easily it can tear families apart and duck over individuals I'm definitely doing a prenup when if I get married you never know represented the husband tried to get caught to eliminate his spousal support obligations wife insisted she needed the support it took way longer than it should have because she was regularly taking vacations to Mexico regularly equals at least once a month edit it took longer than it should have because we had to reschedule a few times but the court eventually ended the spousal support contrary to what the silly people at TRP would have you believe family law is not designed for the radical feminist agenda a friend who is a lawyer told me a pretty crazy story about a wealthy couple splitting up the woman hid millions of dollars over season coupled her husband's clothing with a pair of scissors these shenanigans caused her to get almost nothing my client had a son named snoop frog and neither parent wanted custody I worked for a law firm while in college and we had a client who had just come home from a two-week vacation with his wife only to be served with divorce papers in the temporary restraining order as soon as they pulled in the driveway wife didn't say a word and just went into their house poor guy came straight to our office and was massively confused to say the least my father did divorce law for many years we were in Virginia Beach for a tournament I was in with a friend of mine and his father this is back around 0-7 my dad got a call from a forensic accountant he hired to track down some accounts his client knew her husband stashed money in he was asked to pull over and to put him on speaker because he would not believe what he was about to tell you the accountant traced all of his money to three bank accounts totaling over 300 million dollars in a country my friend's father screamed my father dropped his phone in there were numerous WTF from the backseat my father's client made out with two of the three accounts and they walked away silently he was paid in full given a small bonus and has never heard from her again I'm a divorce lawyer most of these comments are pretty negative and none of them are actually stories I'd love to share some but it's against our professional rules of ethics to describe anything specific enough that someone reading it would recognize him or herself in it that being said I've seen people fight over calculators underwear llamas who burned down the barn and other ridiculously petty things to more serious cases of domestic violence and child sex abuse yes divorce lawyers can be emotionally distant this is a coping mechanism and a necessary one at that yes divorce lawyers are expensive but they are a privilege which can save you from getting totally screwed subject to the law of your state and the humor of your judge I feel like my fees are fair considering I have a doctorate in law and I'm using my time and experience to give my clients advice and steer them through the process while protecting their rights fighting for a favorable outcome saving them from being at every court date and all of this while adhering to state county and court rules and case law I always give my clients a choice when I think what they are fighting for is not worth it for what they will pay and fees also I think one challenge for us is most non lawyers don't realize how counterintuitive the system is and how evidence doesn't just come in automatically it can be a tough battle and you have to make lots of sacrifices along the way but as I remind them no one really wins when you are splitting everything you have in half edit spacing edit okay actually a lot more of these are stories now and really good ones I'm not a divorce lawyer but when I was at a mediation a few months ago the mediator was telling me about a divorce he mediated a few years back it was your classic rich guys sick of his wife and kids and once a divorced to run off with a young hot piece of arse his wife wanted blood she came to the mediation with some pretty outrageous demands about the money and property she'd receive the mediator pushed hard throughout a long day of mediation but she hadn't budged an inch finally very late in the day the husband threw up his hands and said Duquette give her everything she's asking for and let's be done with it the mediator went back to the wife's conference room to share the good news that the husband had caved in and she flipped the duck out glowing incandescent with rage at the idea that her husband was willing to pay truly insane compensation to be done with her and ride off with his little girlfriend not a divorce lawyer but a child of divorce happened when I was about six or seven I'm 18 now I learnt this about a year ago my mother often likes to talk about how my father didn't offer any financial assistance during the divorce and his involvement was purely selfish and a common thing she's told me is that he's never paid for my schooling which is true post divorce however what I learnt was that during the divorce he offered to pay for half of all of my school fees she instead chose child support which he has paid for every year she also took all of their combined savings out and into my six years old at the time bank account which my father had no access to this meant when showing bank statements my father had more money than my mother I've lost some respect for her since there at a client whose soon-to-be ex-husband used her email address and phone number to sign her up for every bank loan religious mental illness and pornograph excit could think of she was bombarded by people contacting her about her interest in their product services he even put out ads for six partners on Craigslist with her information the kicker is that she actually went out with a guy who contacted her if I learned anything being a divorce attorney I no longer practice it was that if the opposing party sounded like a nutcase I would soon see the nutcase come out of my own client normal people don't just accidentally marry crazies not often back when I was in law school I was a clerk for a judge that heard a lot of divorce cases the craziest one involved a gambling addict the guy would write ridiculous checks to the local casino $20,000 $30,000 even $100 thousand plus all the time the wife admitted to going with into the casino each time but said she only played the penny slots and had no idea he was spending that much money because they were splitting the remaining assets that were still substantial she wanted the money he spent at the casino to count against him so she would get a whole lot more while there were copies of the checks it was his word against hers as to whether she knew about them and whether she was also playing the high-stakes games the husband said she knew and she played the high-stakes games - I remember the oral hearing was the last week that I worked there so I never heard how it turned out I do however remember the judge thinking they were both lying which all good judges always believe divorce lawyer hair I've never had anything too crazy the worst I can think of is representing my client who had to be transported from the jail for allegedly violating the restraining order between the two there was another one that was technically a dissolution of domestic partnership not a divorce but essentially the same thing for never married parties that was fairly crazy client alleged her ex had held a man and reported it to the police but I guess they never found the body also alleged his attorney was sleeping with him one of my co-workers had a case where the ex was awarded the cup dog in the divorce only to have it to euthanize just so the other would suffer more I don't care how bad your relationship is there is no excuse for that that pissed me off to hear about I work for a mortgage company and occasionally we have to review divorce decrees if someone is divorcing to remove a spouses name from the loan there is a notorious case known around my pretty large department as the cap divorce decree account in this divorce decree there is a five-page addendum specifically regarding mittens and buttons Johnson names changed for their protection memorable clauses included mandatory 10-minute Skype sessions weekly know unsupervised playdates with children under 50 and that their clause be trimmed every 3 days here's a not divorced one but it's pretty good husband and wife far from a culture where you simply do not divorce they have a few kids he moves on and dates a woman for nearly 20 years and they also have a kid together he does a woman tells no one how it is set up other than there is a trust the guy dies he made a trust for his entire estate he designated that his kids would each be beneficiaries with equal percent interest but also gave his girlfriend 1% more than his wife she was also named as executor of the estate and trustee for the trust popcorn was had not divorce related but still interesting when a local couple died there will indicated that their house and sizeable fortune would remain in trust managed by family friends until their several cats died of natural causes the odd thing is it's been over 20 years now and the cats are still alive also they've changed color husband and wife still living together at the time had a small confrontation the husband pulls his sphincter says what on her and she takes the bait and says what he giggled like a little kid she then told her lawyer who had to talk to his lawyer his lawyer asked him if he called his wife a sphincter and told him he's not allowed to call her that anymore [Music] you [Music]

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Published: Tue Feb 25 2020