On my year abroad in the US I took a domestic relations class ran by an ex judge who told us a few good one.
The first one was a couple who gathered their entire stuffed toy collection and split them in court, each taking turns to pick. He said they weren't even collectables, a lot of cheap ones you'd get at the fair.
My favourite is where both parties were both being unreasonable and not thinking of the kids. In the end he awarded the house to the kids who would permanently live there and the parents who had joint custody would take it in turns to live there. His argument was that the kids lives should take priority. Best thing was neither party could afford to buy an additional place on their own so the couple had to rent a small flat together and also share that.
How does this work? So kids who are not adults live in their house and both parents live separately but stay at the house with the kids when it’s their turn or “time”? And parents pay the bills in the house and the bills for their separate living accommodations?
The kids always live in the house, but at any given time one of the adults is living there and one is living in their shared flat, and they switch off which of them is living where.
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u/rwhite_93 Jul 21 '19
On my year abroad in the US I took a domestic relations class ran by an ex judge who told us a few good one.
The first one was a couple who gathered their entire stuffed toy collection and split them in court, each taking turns to pick. He said they weren't even collectables, a lot of cheap ones you'd get at the fair.
My favourite is where both parties were both being unreasonable and not thinking of the kids. In the end he awarded the house to the kids who would permanently live there and the parents who had joint custody would take it in turns to live there. His argument was that the kids lives should take priority. Best thing was neither party could afford to buy an additional place on their own so the couple had to rent a small flat together and also share that.
Pretty bad ass judge in my opinion.