This should be interesting.
Linda Stasi …I would have to change my last name if it were spelled like the East German secret police’s colloquial appellation.
Something is very wrong with this system.
You can rent a lot of hookers for $30 million. And they will even tell you they love you.
Moral of the story, don’t get married in a State that requires alimony
My situation was just the opposite. Since WI is a Community Property state and *I* was the responsible (dammit!) one - *I* got the added bonus of paying my ex for his bad behavior to buy my farm (which I paid for in the first place!) to be rid of him.
That was after he stole all of our retirement funds.
So, before you all start bashing women, it works both ways, Kids.
Tough lesson to learn, but I couldn’t be happier. :)
this is what I heard from day one,,,
Many women are serial ex-wives, marrying and divorcing for profit. Men are really stupid for getting taken by this obvious scam, but as P.T. Barnum observed, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Each of William’s x’s had to live 24/7 with a coke fiend. They earned it and he was more than happy to pay anything to be left alone, until he realized he would need another wife to go through it all over again.
I guess he should have taken the possibility into consideration when he was screwing around on them.
I have an interesting solution to this mess: In “no fault” divorce, the one that wants the divorce leaves. leaves the house, the money, the kids, etc.
Period.
Maybe people will learn the meaning of “for better or worse”.
And I’m only talking about “no fault”. And yes, I know this will cause some people to try to build a case against their spouse before they do the deed, but it should still have to get past “innocent until proven guilty”.
Now you know why so many young men are marriage-shy.
They see other guys getting hit hard with unending, punitive alimony payments and years of child support payments and strict, limited visitation orders that wipe them out.
My cousin was hit twice by two ex-wives. He was a very very wealthy contractor, 100% self-made, lived in the best part of town and drove a Porsche.
He died broke, alone and unable to pay the rent on his cheap apartment (I didn’t know this until later).
He ended it by putting a gun in his mouth.
How does one become formerly divorced?
Either you are, or are not divorced.
Double-speak bull crap.
$30 million over how long a period of time? One year? Ten years?
If it pays good to divorce a man who is very wealthy then it stands to reason there are some who will seek to marry a man who is very wealthy...just to divorce him.
Why should anyone get a high percentage of someone else’s earned monies? I do not believe that is right.
Robin’s two ex-wives are blood guilty, in my eyes.
In my opinion. At divorce a wife is entitled to a persentage up to half of anything that was accrued as a couple. Not a penny more.
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A very mixed up guy. And people wonder why he ended up paying alimony?
Mr. Williams deserves a good chunk of the blame, for hiring bad attorneys and accepting crummy legal advice. Apparently, he was willing to keep ex-wives 1 and 2 attached to his bank account forever, so they kept getting a check every month. I believe he dumped his first wife in 1988 (because she caught him having an affair with the baby sitter, who became wife #2). And I’m sure those monthly checks were sufficient to keep her in a comfortable lifestyle. Plus, he was on the hook for child support to both wives as well.
You’d think someone would have suggested a pre-nup agreement after the first marriage, or trying to impose some sort of time limit on alimony payments. Maybe Williams just wanted to move on and was willing to do whatever it took. Back in the 80s, he probably thought he’d be a movie star forever, with the income to match. But by the time of his second divorce, his career was already on the downhill slope. At that point, with his kids grown and assets to protect, you’d think he would have hired a legal shark and gone to war.
From what I’ve heard, Robin Williams blew through money like s-— through a goose. He had a massive estate in the Napa Valley that has been on the market for years; 600 acres of land (including vineyards) and a huge house. The mortgage and upkeep on that place must have been astounding.
He also freely gave money to friends in trouble. After Christopher Reeve and his wife died, Williams paid most of the bills for their son, despite the fact that his friends were still had significant assets, despite Reeve’s paralyzing injury and his wife’s sudden death from lung cancer.
At the time of his death, Williams was living in a house he inherited from his mother. That alone speaks volumes about his financial position. I’m guessing long-term alimony payments were just one of the financial straws that helped push him over the edge.
A lawyer friend of mine told me “there is no such thing as am amicable divorce. You’re going to war and be prepared to fight for everything you have, including your kids and your assets.” Luckily, I’ve been married to the same woman for more than 30 years, and I’ve never had to follow that advice.