Posted on 10/29/2016 10:13:19 AM PDT by DFG
A couple of Chicago Cubs fans are fighting a bitter custody battle... of two precious baseball tickets. A divorcing suburban mother submitted an 'emergency petition for World Series tickets' this week, according to Cook County court documents obtained by the Associated Press Friday. Nancy Riddle wanted to the Cubs's Game 4 against the Cleveland Indians Saturday. But a judge's order says the tickets are held by her estranged husband and fellow Cubs fan John Riddle. Judge Marya Nega ruled after in-court arguments that the husband can keep the tickets for himself and the couple's 12-year-old son but should pay for a new ticket for Nancy in a 'comparable' section to his.
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And these people have children!
I’m hoping these two had to pay the court and all its support structure for the time wasted in arguing over this useless sh!t.
Useless? This is a tangible asset that has specific value. No different from any other co-owned item.
In the eyes of a public that has to spend resources to adjudicate it, yes, I believe it is. They had no lasting value. I’d have kept them and maybe paid out the value of the “tickets” at the time of trial.......
Law has to have common sense and not burdensome specificity. Otherwise that trial up in Oregon would have come out differently. We just differ, that’s all.
Something is seriously wrong with people who need to consume justice system resources to sort out this kind of problem.
Useless? This is a tangible asset that has specific value. No different from any other co-owned item.
Yep. She’ll resell it in a minute and pocket the cash.
Give the kid’s ticket to the mother.
In divorce cases, they almost always fight over the children.
If they have a house, they fight over the house.
If they don’t have a house, they fight over the elctronics.
And if they can’t find anything else to fight about, they fight over the pots and pan.
I knew one guy in a community property state. He took a chainsaw to the marital bed and let his wife have her half.
I expect she was disappointed by the ruling. She may have just wanted to keep him from having the tickets.
If I was judge, I would have thought seriously about making him deposit the tickets with the court, with a ruling to follow in a couple of weeks, at which point I would have given them each one of the tickets.
You generally don’t see a lot of children at World Series games - too expensive, I guess. That being said, Go Indians!
And make her explain to the kid why he can't go. Make the husband buy the beer and her the hot dogs. Order them to kiss on for the big screen.
I expect that would have been her reason also.
If the child had a wish to go to the game with a parent, a normal other parent would have relented and not been so petty.
Anger, hate, frustration, inadequacy and self-doubt does a lot of needless damage. There is no reason by society as a whole has to enable it in the legal system, speciously for vengeful actions like this.
Another welcome sign that baseball. Is back. Can you imagine them fighting over tickets to Da Bears?
Professional sports are too important to waste on kids, donchaknow? /s
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