In Reply to: Reading some of the advice there is little wonder why they are divorced … posted by three_sox on March 1, 2015 at 19:57:25:
People get bitter and petty in a divorce and tend to want to inflict revenge damage on the other side - ESPECIALLY if the divorce stems from cheating.
What I have seen from Divorce is that the only people who tend to WIN are the lawyers. And they tend to win big even if their side loses.
Being petty or vindictive can have you wind up with far less money than you would have gotten if you just split it fairly to start with because with lawyers you'll lose what you would lose anyway and then another 30-40% to the lawyers.
50% of marriages end in divorce - out of the remaining 50% you have to figure at least 50% of that group are in some kind of unhappy union - staying married for religious reasons, or because of kids, or because of finances, or other fears.
So now we're down to about 20-25% probably AT BEST of happy marriages.
Frankly, I prefer dating. Why be stuck with vanilla all your life when you can have Baskin-Robbins?
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- RE: Reading some of the advice there is little wonder why they are divorced … - RGA 22:48:33 03/01/15 (29)
- Why not Baskin-Robbins? - mkuller 10:30:17 03/02/15 (0)
- Lawyers - Bromo33333 06:41:51 03/02/15 (9)
- Unless it gets too contentious... - mkuller 15:14:47 03/02/15 (7)
- RE: Unless it gets too contentious... - Brian Levy 09:11:11 03/03/15 (0)
- I was all for mediation .... - reelsmith. 16:18:40 03/02/15 (5)
- RE: I was all for mediation .... - RGA 16:35:35 03/02/15 (2)
- RE: I was all for mediation .... - Brian Levy 09:19:35 03/03/15 (1)
- RE: I was all for mediation .... - RGA 19:03:42 03/03/15 (0)
- RE: I was all for mediation .... - mkuller 16:23:16 03/02/15 (1)
- RE: I was all for mediation .... - Brian Levy 09:27:29 03/03/15 (0)
- "obligation to split 50-50" ... - reelsmith. 08:33:49 03/02/15 (0)
- It's Not Nearly As Dire As People Think... - Doug Schroeder 06:26:08 03/02/15 (3)
- RE: It's Not Nearly As Dire As People Think... - RGA 16:53:01 03/02/15 (2)
- There Are All Manner of Interesting Stats to Be Considered... - Doug Schroeder 14:04:58 03/03/15 (1)
- RE: There Are All Manner of Interesting Stats to Be Considered... - RGA 19:35:25 03/03/15 (0)
- RE: Reading some of the advice there is little wonder why they are divorced … - Bill the K 06:17:00 03/02/15 (1)
- G'day Bill... - three_sox 06:29:35 03/02/15 (0)
- Spot on RGA. - Justlisten2 05:21:11 03/02/15 (2)
- RE: Spot on RGA. - RGA 16:21:41 03/02/15 (0)
- You have a wise friend - blakey 09:55:55 03/02/15 (0)
- Specious generalisations …. - three_sox 23:24:47 03/01/15 (8)
- RE: Specious generalisations …. - RGA 00:47:39 03/02/15 (7)
- divorce without a lawyer - pbarach 15:11:13 03/02/15 (1)
- RE: divorce without a lawyer - RGA 16:27:14 03/02/15 (0)
- Good grief ... - three_sox 00:54:07 03/02/15 (4)
- RE: Good grief ... - morricab 01:42:23 03/02/15 (3)
- Really? - three_sox 02:03:30 03/02/15 (2)
- RE: Really? - morricab 00:49:21 03/03/15 (1)
- You know what they say about people in glass houses .... - three_sox 02:31:53 03/03/15 (0)