[DogByte6RER]

''This case has money, greed and betrayal,'' said attorney Richard Lara, whose law firm is representing the third party, the barroom bystander with rabbit ears. ``All the elements of a soap opera.''

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[longtermmemmory]

So the real question is how much is still left.

FL is an equitable distribution state.

The wife concealed marital assets. She can also be found in contempt of court for lying on her affidavits.

[martin_fierro]

There’s a C&W song in here somewhere.

[Califreak]

How greedy can a person be?

Better off to do the right thing and just give spouse their half from the get-go and be done with it!

[Deaf Smith]

There have been two cases here in Texas of a spouse hiding a lotto winning and then divorcing the other.

There was jail time involved when all said & done.

[DogByte6RER]

ping for $$$$

[DogByte6RER]

ping for $$$$

[GovernmentShrinker]

Yet another example of why government shouldn’t be involved in defining/registering/licensing/regulating marriage. In a free country, people’s financial affairs should be their own business. If two (or more) people regard themselves as “married”, it should be up to them to spell out in writing what that means in terms of financial arrangements, if there’s to be any sharing or rights to the other party’s money or property. Did these two have a choice, or even an awareness, at the time they got government-married, re Florida being an “equitable distribution” state? Did they even get married in Florida? Or did they move there and find out later that the state had, without telling them, changed their financial rights and obligations?

[maine-iac7]

EAsy to judge - but it sounds like the 'husband' was husband in name only - they had been living apart for 5 years...and it sounds like he was not the father of her kids.

So, let's be honest...How many of us would've

1:

Called up the estranged husband (wonder if Toots was living with him then?) or

2:

Thought, "this will take care of me and my children - if, after I pay 50% in taxes, I don't give him 50% of that - leaving 1/4th for me and my kids..."