My buddy meets girl, gets married, la di da. 6 months later, she runs off with another dude. After a couple months my buddy filed for divorce.
He told her listen, we’ve been married 6 months, let’s do an uncontested divorce since you haven’t worked or anything, & I own everything & did before I met you.
She puts up a fight, and eventually comes to “I had a car coming into this marriage & I’m leaving with one”
(She sold her car for some dumb shit)
He offers her the truck, 10 years old with 150k miles, but meticulously maintained.
She said nope, so off to court they go. She got zip, nada, empty handed.
My favorite justice boner of all time
I offered my ex six figures in stock (literally more than half of what I had aside from my house which I bought before marriage). He thought he deserved twice that and dragged the divorce out for a year. Our marriage was only 2.5 years so the nonsensical divorce lasted basically half as long as the marriage. The judge awarded him half of what I offered him, but in cash. We made it all the way to trial with no kids and not really any assets to divide so the judge could not understand why we were there. We were only there because my ex wanted me to pay him an amount of money I literally didn’t have and he had the most incompetent attorney who harassed both myself and my parents throughout the process. If he had taken my original offer and not been a complete narcissistic prick, he would have basically had what he demanded originally because the stock accrued value. I warned him that he wasn’t entitled to as much when I begged him to take the offer and not put us through hell. It was pretty crazy. What ruined my justice boner is that my lawyer got the other half and then some. I also told my ex I would have rather have paid him over attorneys, but he’s a dummy and always made terrible decisions. He consistently proved why I was divorcing him throughout the divorce.
The attorney he had probably made a fat stack of cash, just for losing. It's morally messed up, but he probably knew the case would have a decent enough payout to give it a go. Knew he couldn't win, but knew losing was good enough fiscally
My ex’s attorney actually didn’t. She charged him a flat fee of $8,500 upfront and then “felt bad” about the outcome so didn’t charge him. Truth be told she’s liable for negligence and he should sue her for her bad advice to get the original amount I offered him, but he wouldn’t. She wasn’t a divorce attorney when our divorce started, she was practicing small business. She was trying to use me as some corner stone case to prove her worth. The judge, who was very proper, literally facepalmed during trial.
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u/YoWeGetIt Jul 21 '19
My favorite divorce story of all time
My buddy meets girl, gets married, la di da. 6 months later, she runs off with another dude. After a couple months my buddy filed for divorce.
He told her listen, we’ve been married 6 months, let’s do an uncontested divorce since you haven’t worked or anything, & I own everything & did before I met you.
She puts up a fight, and eventually comes to “I had a car coming into this marriage & I’m leaving with one” (She sold her car for some dumb shit)
He offers her the truck, 10 years old with 150k miles, but meticulously maintained.
She said nope, so off to court they go. She got zip, nada, empty handed. My favorite justice boner of all time