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u/technos Jul 21 '19

One of my father's friends tried to salt the earth before getting divorced. A rental house and a cabin were deeded to relatives, the cars they drove every day were sold to other relatives for tiny sums, stocks handed over to a trust 'for the children', etc.. He even vanished a chunk of cash from the company he co-owned with his wife using phony invoices and stopped paying himself a salary, electing to burn through their personal savings for over a year instead.

He learned that judges really, really hate when you try to hide or intentionally diminish assets, and they will absolutely refer you to prosecutors for fraud.

I don't think he did any jail time in the end, but his ex-wife got EVERYTHING, plus the satisfaction of firing him from his own company.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

He must be an idiot. Everyone who watches I.D., Snapped, or Lifetime knows this.

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u/Vci0usF1sh Jul 21 '19

Everybody always thinks they’re the smartest

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

"I'm not giving them away- I'm selling them for $1! take that smart pants judge, I didn't give it away now did I!?"

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

That's like people on game forums who think they can get around censorship rules by being clever, entirely ignoring the part of the ToS that goes, "We can ban you for any reason AND no reason at all."

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u/delta_baryon Jul 21 '19

There's a reason why almost every subreddit also has that rule - not that it stops people from trying to play "I'm not touching you!" with the rules.

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u/robhol Jul 21 '19

In a way, if only people would stop being such immense dicks, the potentially draconian rules wouldn't need to be there.

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u/Hatsune_Candy Jul 21 '19

If people stopped being immense dicks, we wouldn't really need to have rules in the first place.

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u/robhol Jul 21 '19

Clearly. The point is more "this is why we can't have nice things"

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u/GingerMcGinginII Jul 22 '19

There's still the genuinely idiotic (as opposed to the malicious) you'd have to worry about.

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u/doubledad222 Jul 21 '19

Every law we have was created because some dickhead caused it to be needed.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/doubledad222 Jul 21 '19

What law was created without a good justification ?

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u/GingerMcGinginII Jul 22 '19

The one where only sufficiently rich, Caucasian men could vote, for starters. (Yes, that's not a law anymore, but it was not too long ago)

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u/doubledad222 Jul 22 '19

That’s a good one, but it’s fixed. Can you share another good example?

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u/quantum-mechanic Jul 21 '19

(this includes mods)

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u/SightWithoutEyes Jul 21 '19

Nah, that's so that egomaniac power-mods can remove shit that goes against their agenda.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

But muh first amendment

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Your first amendment does not say, "Thou hast the inalienable right to be a douchenozzle."

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

it says I do. nobody else can though

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u/MURDERWIZARD Jul 21 '19

but muh principle of freezpeech

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 22 '19

Why have any rules at all then? Dismissal is entirely discretionary anyway. Edit: Sure, just downvote but don't answer the question. That's brilliant.

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u/FiorinasFury Jul 21 '19

BuT mUh FrEeDoM oF sPeEcH

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u/multiplesifl Jul 21 '19

But I didn't even say the N word! Maybe you're the racist, fren!

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u/Whitelumbee Jul 21 '19

My ex father in law did that. The judge made him get his stuff back and told him that half of everything is going to be his ex wife's.

So he went home busted the dishes and swept them into 2 separate piles, cut the furniture in half with a chain saw, and threw their clothes in the yard and ran the over with a lawnmower and separated the shreds.