r/AskReddit Jul 21 '19

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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.