I get divorced the day before Thanksgiving. <- Please note this statement is accompanied by a happy dance and some very wishful thinking of clinking champagne glasses with my girls.
So I get divorce, final court date as far as I have been told will be the day before Thanksgiving. I am very nervouse and anxious and excited. I wish my daughter could have my name instead of his. I hope I get my car back. I hope he gets told he has been unreasonable through the process and that he will have to pay because of that.
Our first court date was for temporary order for child support between now and the end of the divorce. He and his lawyer argued that since he doesn't want to have a second job and will be quitting soon, he shouldn't have to pay child support based on all his income, just the income from his first job. The lawyers argued for an hour and a half, while we waited for the judge. They decided and I okayed that he pay the child support based on his entire income and if he quits his 2nd job that he pays child support based on his new income. Well, four months later he still hasn't quit the second job.
Our second court date was just an update. My lawyer had written up the paperwork but his lawyer hadn't done anything. Now we are going into the third and final court date. This is where we hash out the details, of property. In our case it is debt. He spent the last three years paying off his student debt. He made minimum payments on mine and when it came to make the first payment on mine, he walked out, literally. He asked me to stay home it would make his life easier but he didn't want to take care of me back. He doesn't think this is unreasonable. So we will see how everything works out.
Friday, November 19, 2010
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I am so sorry you're going through this, but it does sound like you are rid of a person who shouldn't be in your life and on to a much more wonderful journey!!!! Now the next step is finding a way to help your daughter heal and only know the best about her parents, even him. I was 4 when my mother and father split up and my dad worked very hard to always speak nicely about my mom even tho she'd walked out on us. Thinking back, I don't know how he did it, but he didn't want us knowing anything horrible before we were ready...good luck to you all!!!!
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