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(#1) Pure Evil
Posted by Redditor /u/alex61821:
Worked at an airport. Big, burly guy brings a 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, dog's 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... then just walked out head down and just looking crushed.
That was 30 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
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(#2) A Special Kind Of Terrible
Posted by Redditor /u/hecticlorax:
Bad seperation: wife filed a restraining order on the husband (very common, wasn't a terrible guy, but not great either). A year into the divorce his mother was dying. [H]e asked his sister to speak with his ex-wife and ask to bring the kids to see her in the hospital before she died. The wife never did; instead, she went to the court and said he violated the restraining order by trying to contact her (you can't contact someone through another party).
He admitted it and explained the situation, but was found in breach of the order. His mother died while he was locked up, and the wife never brought the kids to see her.
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(#3) She Turned On The Water Works
Posted by Redditor /u/Slagathar1:
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.
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(#4) Hide 'N' Seek
Posted by Redditor /u/JillAustin:
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.
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(#5) The Guy That Tried To Stick Together
Posted by Redditor /u/Maxwyfe:
I work for a divorce attorney now but the craziest thing came to my attention when I worked for the prosecuting attorney.
This couple was breaking up and the mister left the house. The missus went to work the next morning as usual. When she returned home in the evening she found mister had been to the house and removed his clothing and belongings as she expected.
What she didn't expect was that he had also Gorilla Glued her belongings together. He glued the TV remote to the table, the phone to its cradle, the couch pillows to the couch, and even glued the vacuum cleaner to the carpet. She called the police and reported this as property damage. The police went with her through the house documenting dozens of items glued to various things, but for days she was discovering random things and she would call to amend or update her report. "My good oven mitts were glued to the wall" or "He glued the eff-ing sheets together in the linen closet!"
I've seen people do and say really awful things to each other, but that was diabolical.
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(#6) Divorce Was Covered By Geraldo Rivera
Posted by Reditor /u/docowenskaiser1:
Not a lawyer...
Parents' divorce seemed simple dad cheated on mom, mom gets custody of me. Dad didn't like paying alimony and child support to the tune of $2k a month after he gave up rights. Dad had great idea, pay a hitman $15k to kill soon to be ex-wife. Dad goes through with it, idiot actually pays undercover cop the money. Dad then flys back to Canada (home) and wait for results. International task force is formed to try and detain him. Geraldo Rivera covers story, idiot dad gets arrested in Toronto and flown back to California. In this process, I was three in care of family back down South, mother in protection by police. Dad's family apparently wealthy gets good lawyer is charged with 17 felonies can't remember how many he was convicted of. He gets 18 months. After all of this mom still had to sue for divorce it took two years.
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(#7) Dark Side Of Magic
Posted by Redditor /u/SoggyShake3:
The husband gave the wife everything material (house, cars, etc.) in the divorce except his Magic the Gathering collection. When he went to collect it he found his wife had broken the seal on his MTG Alpha starter deck. This was worth about 20k USD at the time and currently for sale on various sites for around 50k.
For context, as soon as you break the seal the deck becomes worthless and unless you get some of the insanely priced cards (like Black Lotus), you will lose a significant amount of money.
So, she literally got all the assets they accrued over the marriage and killed the only thing of value this guy got out of total spite.
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(#8) The Anti-Family Man
Posted by Redditor /u/wolfmalfoy:
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 lowered 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 lowered 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 had "unpaid 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 [graduated from] 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 [whom] 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.
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(#9) Fire Sale
Posted by a Redditor:
The couple separated 10 years ago but didn't officially divorce until a couple years ago.
She was going to get his house so he burnt it down, then faxed her the transfer of ownership forms.
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(#10) Fixing To Leave
Posted by Redditor /u/p4lm3r:
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 toured a dozen or so. We found two 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 $25,000 in CC and 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.
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(#11) The Aftermath
Posted by Redditor /u/Flintoid:
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.
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(#12) Win By A Hare
Posted by Redditor /u/Much_Difference:
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.
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(#13) Dude, Where's My Car?
Posted by Redditor /u/NO_PRTD:
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 every day and doing loops around the city for hours putting thousands of miles on it making it worth nothing.
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(#14) A Fine Predicament
Posted by Redditor /u/PERCEPT1v3:
That time a guy left his ex's car in the airport parking lot for three years until she racked up $105,000 in fines.
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(#15) Not Really Thought Out
Posted by Redditor /u/advocatus_ebrius_est:
The person who made a fake [sex work] ad for their ex as "proof" that they were not a good parent (without considering that I would want to know why they browsed [sex work] ads during their parenting time)?
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(#16) Technically True
Posted by Redditor /u/cannabisandcrabs:
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.
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(#17) Quitting Time
Posted by Redditor /u/the_falconator:
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.
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(#18) Wag The Dog
Posted by a Redditor:
My uncle represented this guy getting a divorce from his wife of 15 years. Super toxic breakup and they split everything 50/50, even the land that the house they lived in sat upon. Well, she decides to build a house right behind the other house; mind you, this was a lot of land - probably 200 yards separating both home sites - so that the back of the houses faced each other. The house gets built and my uncle gets a call from his client asking about the legality of a situation he had gotten himself into.
Apparently, his ex-wife would spend a lot of time in her backyard, so he saw her all the time. What he did was buy a female dog and name it the same name as his ex-wife. Anytime he would let his dog back in from letting her out he would yell, "Susan, you b*tch! Get in here!" He would also yell if she was peeing on the flowers, "Susan, you b*tch! Quit pissing on the flowers!" or "Susan, you b*tch! Quit digging in the dirt!"
The ex-wife called the cops on him a couple of times, but there was nothing they could do because the dog was registered under the name of Susan, and it was in fact a b*tch, so there you go.
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Although no one would like to sue their partner for divorce in the court center, about 50% of marriages end in a breakup. Some couples are able to resolve their differences and reach a certain degree of coordination and reconciliation, but other couples seem to be unable to reach a consensus on anything. Divorce lawyers are unlucky, they have to face all the crazy things spouses did.
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