Divorce Lawyers, What's The Craziest Thing You've Seen A Spouse Do?

divorce lawyers of reddit what is the most insane evil funny dumb way a spouse has tried to screw the other ian albert work in the court system once case that came in was a couple divorcing on mutual terms the husband had one child with her and the wife had a child from the previous marriage he agreed to pay child support for both children i guess he really cared about this other enough to support her even though it isn't his obligation the judge signs the order they go to set up the child support account and it gets kicked back saying you can't have two accounts for one child turns out she's been collecting child support from the biological father the entire time and never told him she basically tried to milk two fathers for one child and the other attorney knew about it here in canada a kid can legally have up to four to individuals responsible for paying his or her child support there was a court case a few years ago where a lady tried to change that law and have the number up to five not my case but during my first year of law school lawyers from different practices came to give us a peek behind the curtain of different areas the divorce lawyer told the story of rather well-to-do couple that spent months and months and many tens of thousands of dollars fighting over absolutely everything all the way down to a single ceramic ashtray he couldn't remember the significance but somehow it had come through the husband's family even after everything else had been decided they spend many more months and nearly 100 000 fighting over justice ashtray then after a court hearing the wife finally won the ashtray she promptly strode out to the white courthouse steps and smashed the ceramic ashtray left the pieces all over for the husband to see on his way out decided that day i would not be a divorce lawyer tl dr spent 100 k to win an ashtray only to smash it in spite i think you made a good decision after reading all these answers once had a boss who had to leave his house for six hours while his ex-wife grabbed all the belongings she was legally entitled to when he returned home every knob and handle was gone door knobs cabinet handles drawer handles anything that was screwed onto something and used to open it she had taken every day for the next week he would occasionally yell out she took the freaking knobs my friend's mom did this when she found out her husband was cheating in addition all the light bulbs and toilet paper even the light bulb in the fridge she knew he would come home from work in the evening and have to figure out what was going on i am an interpreter who works frequently with police and lawyers the most out there thing i ever interpreted in court went like this ms so and so we know each other for a long time correct yes as a matter of fact we have known each other for five years correct yes and at the end of each and every meeting we had during the past five years we always agreed on one thing correct yes please tell the judge what we agree on it's not okay to break in my ex's apartment and lick all his cutlery yet here we are miss so and so i died this made me giggle and is a welcome respite from all the dog killing and child molestation accusations thank you i didn't handle the divorce i handled parts of the aftermath in the divorce she went awol was living in a truck somewhere and just couldn't handle it mentally he gave her five of his nine companies they were the ones that owed seven figures in payroll taxes he had made her the bookkeeper on paper she spent decades trying to shake the irs for the results 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 we had a guy at work do this shaved his whole body razor burn on the back of his neck cut up his elbows he was a hairy dude then he failed the urine test i asked him why he went to all that trouble and he said i don't know i was high till when you're about to go through a divorce don't clean out the accounts and hide the money grab your pets and put them in a safe place where nobody will ever find them until the divorce is all long over a soon-to-be ex-husband left his wife's prized coi to die on the doorstep of their house apparently the value of these fish six in total was over one hundred thousand dollars she was according to her lawyer so distraught that she couldn't be in court only in la article that 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 a dude got left with nothing i moved on before i found out how the story ended hopefully it ends with her dying a slow painful death 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 three 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 they must have felt so cool yet looked so stupid 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 i can't believe i'm saying this but relative to the amount of animal abuse in the rest of this thread i'm glad he didn't try to kill the cats divorce lawyer here spouse had been out of the house for weeks she waited until he was on a business trip came into the house turned on all of the faucets plugged the drains turned off the furnace and left it was -10 degrees he came back five days later the house was ruined the water froze and cracked the foundation i'm guessing no insurance or insurance didn't cover a deliberate act of damage or something i'm not a divorce lawyer but my parents got divorced about a year ago my mum didn't want my dad to show up in court because he would contest and then they'd have to split the assets she phoned me and told me to put laxatives in his food so he wouldn't be able to make it there had a client whose wife wanted him out of the house i told him not to leave just moved to a different bedroom for the time being because once he was out the chances of him ever getting back in was 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 101 on how to lose custody i don't practice divorce law but i did an internship with a family law judge in law school that involved me sitting in on a lot of stuff one divorced couple came in because the ex-husband wanted to lower his spousal support payments due to his lower income great financial responsibilities and the fact that his ex-wife was declining to seek paid employment all of which sounds reasonable on the face it turned out that while his income had been lower due to cuts his new wife who technically worked as his assistant and had done so prior to the divorce was now making quadruple her salary more than he ever had he claimed that his ex wife hadn't paid renters living with her and could have money to survive if she charged them rent it turned out they were the couple's shared 18 year old twins who were living at home having just graduating high school and were going to keep living at home while starting college in the fall it also later turned out that he allowed his stepdaughter and her two children to live with him and his wife rent free and paid for her college his ex-wife produced evidence that he told his own kids to figure out paying for college themselves he claimed that his ex-wife worked as a nanny for free by choice and should be getting paid for work elsewhere the kids she watched for free were their three joint grandchildren from their eldest child two of which were severely disabled he claimed that when he married his new wife he gained over 15 new dependents which was technically true but those dependents were all in mexico and included his new wife's grown siblings and their families none of whom he had ever met this dude was shocked when spousal support wasn't decreased he's trying to bleed his ex-wife dry not realizing he's being bled dry by the new one lol my dad is a divorce attorney his clients couldn't decide who would get the labrador puppies from a new litter they just breed the pups are worth one thousand dollars a pop well they also hadn't been up to date on their payments so dad brought a litter of eight floppy puppies home as collateral for us to have until they could negotiate the settlement so much fun for us kids tl dr my client's spouse accused him of giving his deceased wife cancer i represented a guy who was on his second marriage his first wife passed away from cancer he and his kids were obviously devastated my client was a pretty sensitive guy with a big heart his second wife could be very charming which was why he fell for her but it was all a facade anyway to make a long story about a lengthy divorce short my client met a very kind and affectionate woman during his case they really hit it off and were basically engaged even though his divorce was far from over the fiance started having health problems and was diagnosed with a form of terminal cancer somehow the second wife found out about this and tried to use the cancer diagnosis against my client in court she developed this crazy theory that my client had killed his first wife by giving her cancer and that he was doing the same thing to his fiancee the second wife's attorney who was quite good refused to be a party to it the attorney never addressed the argument in court and didn't even ask the second wife any questions about it during testimony rather the attorney informed the judge that the second wife wished to address the court directly about an issue the judge allowed her to do so in a highly irregular move the second wife told her crazy conspiracy theory to the judge adding that she was certain my client had tried to give her cancer at some point as well i wish i had an artist's rendering of the scene capturing the second wife's crazy eyes her attorney's look of shame embarrassment the judge's look of confusion on we and my look of o inspired disgust a poor guy though having two loved ones get terminal cancer i was an assistant for a family law practice not a lawyer so it was already a disaster of a divorce because the ex-husband was a dong but it got so much worse when the wife started dating someone new with a severe cat allergy like a year after they split up her psycho ex bought a cat on his time with the kids except he's not allowed pets at his apartment he sends the kids back to their mom's house with a cat and all its stuff mom is pee because she didn't want a cat at all plus her boyfriend is crazy allergic she calls us asking what to do because her kids are balling saying that she can't get rid of their new sibling and she has the cat in the garage x told kids if mommy loves you she'll let you keep the cat since daddy has not allowed cats at his house paralegal for divorce lawyer this one is morbid we represented a guy who believed vehemently that his wife was assaulting the children the authorities were involved child services was involved it was never clear what the truth was or if anything at all was going on but our client was sure he shot his wife dead at a custody exchange in front of the children he then sat down and waited for the authorities we visited him in jail with his criminal defense attorney as we were leaving he told me well i guess the divorce is over now and he laughed this was the first time i had ever been speechless i can't really reveal details or context here but i can safely say that defending this action is heroic or understandable is an incorrect takeaway there are no heroes here the trauma this man put the children through is incredibly selfish regardless of his intentions there are so many other options that could have been explored many of which were being explored when this happened he abruptly put an end to all of them making the truth forever impossible to discern where are they now the children are in the custody of a family member they are safe and well although will no doubt need extensive therapy as they get older guy is in jail i'm unsure of his final sentence however i doubt he will ever leave what did the kids say forensic interviews are super confidential and this case didn't have the chance to go to a hearing however after multiple interviews with both children and the parents neither the police child services guardian ad litem or child advocate recommended that the mother lose custody or visitation nor did they require it to be supervised all of these matters were ongoing when the mother died frick i should have stopped reading this thread once i got to the parents who were saving alimony money for the other in case of emergency she accused her ex-husband of physically shaming 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 physically smelling suggestion i want her of the consequences of being caught lying about that that is 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 specialize in insurance litigation which is far less ugly do you know what happened afterwards did she lose custody 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 forty five thousand dollars he left about three dollars and fifty cents in there disappointed that i didn't see any reference to the loch ness monster yet i worked at a computer repair store as a sales technician had a guy come in with a desktop that he wanted windows reinstalled i asked him if he wanted me to back up all of his data first and he told me that he had everything he wanted and just do the wipe i put it in the queue and he paid and left i started it about an hour later since an xp install was only about 45 minutes off the network i didn't bother doing anything else except deleting the original partition and making a new one and installing windows about an hour after that his wife came running and asking if we had a computer with smith as the last name i told her i did and she showed me her it and said that her husband brought it in to try and destroy all the proof of him cheating and stealing money from their business when she asked if i had wiped everything yet i told her i just did a windows install and didn't actually really wipe anything i called her husband and told him the situation i told him his wife was here to get the computer he asked me if i reinstalled windows like we spoke about and i told him i had he told me i don't give a crap give her the computer there isn't anything left on it anyway i said all right and hung up i told her that he said i could give it to her and then explain to her how reinstalling windows doesn't magically delete everything and explain to her how i could recover all of her files in a couple of hours i ended up staying late that night and she bought me pizza and mountain dew i ended up recovering every file he tried to have me destroy and made multiple copies for her she ended up calling him from the store and reading off some of the messages he had tried to delete from his emails i was worried that he might try to come back in and confront me but nothing else ever came of it very cute of her to bring you pizza and mountain dew husband and wife divorce after husband finds out wife is sending obscene texts to other guys he goes into a deep depression they didn't have much lots of debt and two dogs one was a dog he had had since before the marriage he got her the other dog was only about three years old and was bought to keep the older seven-year-old dog company while they worked his wife demanded that since he got his dog that she got the other he is depressed and just wants to move on so he agrees she gets the dog and has it put down the next day she didn't want the dog she just wanted to hurt him 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 that other attorney could be disbarred for that personal experience unbeknownst to me my ex was having an affair i worked a lot of hours so i didn't pick up on it we had always dreamed of buying a house on a huge local lake to retire in we literally started shopping for houses and even to radiate a dozen or so we found too well within our budget but would need to sell our house first my wife convinced me to take out a couple loans in my name and get a couple credit cards again in my name most of the bills were in hers and the mortgage was in hers so i did i spent about 25 k in ccn loans to fully update our house and get it ready for market as soon as the work was done she told me she was leaving me and wanted to sell the house dang did she get the house or is it still ongoing most malicious thing i know of personally involved a co-worker 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 when i posted this i thought this situation was a rarity and have shock and or value from the cruelty at work after reading the responses in this thread not only am i saddened by how many pets get caught in the crossfire but i am genuinely shocked by the length some people will go for petty vengeance there must be rules on vets putting down healthy pets my uncle's ex tried to work it in that she would get half of whatever my grandmother would leave him when she passes jokes on her my grandmother is passing over her kids not maliciously my uncle is very well often so is my mom and leaving everything to my brother and me oh also tried to get soul custody of both of their children who are in their 20s i'm going to school to be a vet assistant my teacher is a veterinarian she told us on monday she's had clients bring their animals in to be euthanized so their spouse couldn't have them smdh not a divorce lawyer but worked 4-1 back in the 90s a woman and her kids went on vacation and came back home to find that the soon-to-be ex-husband had broken into their house with his attorney thrown a party and microwaved the kid's kitten husband's attorney got disbarred i believe but that was about it and microwaved the kids kitten what the actual frick is wrong with people i'm not a lawyer but i work as a legal assistant for a family lawyer the ex-husband was getting remarried one his ex-wife sent him and his new fiancee a dozen black roses before their wedding two 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 the 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 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 employer here who has had to garnish wages from time to time i don't know how it is there but here when there's any sort of garnishment we pay the money to a state county and they send the money to the person or company the ex wouldn't have gotten it anyway i had one client who was controlling their spouse by keeping them addicted to him i fired them my boss had a client who well after we fired them set themselves and their child on fire rather than give up custody here's my funny story on the stand my client and the other lawyer's client each spent about an hour saying i'm not lying they're lying then calling the other a bee butthole goof you name it often using that phrase exactly at one point one of them was cautioned by the judge for swearing and said frick sorry the judge decided they were both not credible if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Published: Mon Aug 03 2020