She Squanders Her Divorce Settlement, so He Has to Pay Her Again--30 Years Later!

GlennSacks.com ^ | 7/3/07 | Glenn Sacks

[Edgerunner]

Hell, I got nailed for $18,000 in 2000 25 years after my divorce. My x and I made an agreement of no child support if I stayed away from my daughter. She made no attempt to collect the support. Then she suddenly forgot our agreement and took me to court, where the appellate court upheld the magistrate's ruling that I owed her the money. The 2 females on the 3 judge panel ignored precedent while the male judge cited the precedent. I lost. end of story.

Don't expect justice in domestic court if your a man.

[donna]

My x and I made an agreement of no child support if I stayed away from my daughter.

Have you ever spoken to your child?

[Flatus I. Maximus]

This is utterly, absolutely, totally frickin’ barking mad daft.

I hope to God my ex-wife doesn’t see it.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Hard to believe and total BS. She should be left to her fate.

[Valpal1]

I don’t suppose it occurred to you that selling your relationship with your daughter was reprensible.

I’m amazed that the male judge was able to find a precedent that supports what amounts to either an unenforceable or illegal verbal agreement to deprive your daughter of both a father and support.

Sorry you got nailed, but you should have run that idea past a lawyer.

[Edgerunner]

My dear lady,

Yes it was reprensible but so was I. I have grown up since then and have a great relationship with my daughter. I was an alcholic and a musician...There are several laws which protect people from undue seisure of assets, so you must not know of these laws. Thank you for you female opinion.

[Orange1998]

It won’t talk long for her to find out.

[Valpal1]

I’m glad you have recovered yourself and your relationship with your daughter.

But.... it wasn’t an undue seizure of assets legally speaking. You can’t agree to not pay child support, the laws do not allow it and won’t enforce it and a lawyer should have told you that.

You were on the hook for child support from the moment she was born. That your ex chose to wait till you actually had some ability to pay to collect that debt shows some smarts.

Doesn’t mean the law is wrong or unjust, only that you made decisions that had long term consequences and costs. Chalk it up as making amends.

Divorce is ugly and the children are the ones who pay for adult’s immature behavior. ‘Spect that’s why God hates it so.

[rabscuttle385]

This was not a second bite at the cherry, but it is what are her reasonable needs.

So basically the former wife (who caused the divorce in the first place by running off with another man) is asking the courts to give her a "credit card with no limits" (aka her former husband's future wealth)?

That's just...plain wrong (as in unfair)!

[Red in Blue PA]

If this isn’t a red flag for any guy she is currently seeing, I don’t know what is.

[Jack Hammer]

Insanity.

[BamaAndy]

She’ll go through this too—then what? What a rip-off, a genuine theft. He’ll have to die to escape the b*tch.

[HotTubDave]

you couldn’t say it any wiser!!!