[Monk]

Originally Posted by bobbymitch

Monk, I do fell sorry for you. I don't know what I would do if my wife of 42 years would leave me. Damn.

If it is any consolation (and probably isn't) my BIL got a royal screwing. Short version - The soon-to-be-ex-wife was had arrest warrants in and around the KC area so she left for Oklahoma. We couldn't get the BIL to start divorce proceedings immediately, so she did in Oklahoma.

The soon-to-be-ex-wife and lawyer got alimony for more than he was earning. The judge wouldn't believe his pay stubs.

After several years, he had to back to court and jail for non-payment of alimony. The judge wouldn't accept the certified copies of his checks and the bank wouldn't/couldn't testify under oath that the checks were what he wrote.

Several more years later, it was determined that the judge and/or the court clerk didn't sign the divorce decree so he, and many others, weren't legally divorced. The ex-wife tried to sue him for bigamy. Even though that got straightened out, the court wouldn't credit him for $$ previously paid.

Later on he found out that 2 of his daughters had been married without his knowledge and he had been paying child support. And no, no credit for the extra $$ paid could be applied to the alimony.

Come to find out a couple of years ago the ex-wife lawyer and judge were in cohoots, both disbarred, but he gets no rehearing of past events.

Man NOW THAT AIN"T RIGHT I have never heard of such a thing that puts my situation in to perspective