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How to cope w an unfair divorce

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    you are lost with system, that’s why you need a solicitor that specialises in this area,

    you talk like you have left the home already, and buying a house nearby so you can see kids everyday easily?

    Like they will be living in the family home? I wouldn’t be buying a house if was you.

    And I would be moving back in to your home and getting the gardai to remove your husbands Girfriend / Trespasser if she won’t leave after you have told her. You own that house, and it’s the family home. The likely hood of a judge telling you the mother to leave the house and leave your husband and kids there is pretty slim, much better chance of that happening the other way around.

    you also stated that a solicitor cannot change the law and everything you have is 50-50. There is no law that states everything is 50-50 , the judge will decide for ye if ye cannot agree.

    i think maybe you are feeling a bit intimidated as it’s your husbands family land, the husband and the G/f and the husbands parents.

    you need to get a proper solicitor and start fighting for what’s yours and your rights and they will get a rude awakening,

    you say you do things for kids happiness? You think kids will be happy seeing their father with another woman and their mother unhappy.

    i dunno what your solicitor is telling you, or whatever anybody says, the law and judges will favour you, the system is biased towards women. Your husband will be lucky to get the house if you don’t agree to it.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Agreed

    Given the discrepancy in earners and the OP choosing to move out she may end up liable for both child and spousal maintenance



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Xidu


    My house solicitor recommended her to me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Xidu


    Thank you.

    yes I have moved out to my investment house. As his gf comes in now and then: with her cat. And spreader her cats beds and stuff in my office too. Using my home office.

    yesterday even told me I have no right to stop her seeing her boyfriend in the house.


    ahhhhhhhhh



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Xidu


    I have no problem to move back to the house. My belongings are still in the house and the main bedroom is still mine.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Xidu


    I am not good at talking especially English isn’t my first language and my God that woman can talk. Telling me to get your solicitor talk to his solicitor. I said this will be a long battle.

    she said you wanna this to close in few weeks don’t you.

    and telling me that she makes more than me. She will buy her own house.


    what a gas woman!

    all this shxxxxt I don’t know why do I put up with.

    I am moving back tomorrow after work.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Xidu


    the reason I move out

    like they cook together in kitchen and kiss each other in front of me.

    they don’t need to, maybe trying to make me feel awkward or proving to me they are true love bird

    but it just shows how low they are



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭Ezeoul


    As Stheno has advised, as the higher earner, you could be ordered to pay spousal as well as child maintenance.

    But quite honestly, given your emotional state (and for the sake of your mental health) and considering the fact that you do have somewhere else to stay, I would not move back into the family home, if you've already moved out. Unless you want to move back in for the sake of the kids.

    The split of the family home can be dealt with as part of any settlement in the divorce. And you are entitled to a share in it. But I don't get the impression that you are too interested in staying in that house so close to his family.

    Though you do need to pause on any purchase of your new house. No matter what your ex-husband "promises", it will be considered a joint marital asset if you buy it now. Do not trust any promises, when it comes to money, land or property. It's all up for grabs in a divorce.

    If your family law solicitor did not advise you of this, you really, really, need a new solicitor.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Xidu


    House won’t be finished by next May so I still have time. I aim to close this agreement within next 10 weeks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭Ezeoul


    You won't be divorced in ten weeks.

    Even if you do mediate a separation agreement now, it can all be renegotiated (and everything is back up for grabs) when it does get to Court.

    You really need to discuss all this with your solicitor.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    Next time she arrives at that house thinking she is coming in then tell her she is not allowed, if you and your ex disagree then call the guards, she won’t be going into the house then.

    when the argument starts between you, your ex and his gf that she should be allowed in the house or either of them raise their voice and make you feel threatened or uncomfortable in your own home, then get on to your solicitor and apply to the courts for a barring order.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Xidu


    Thank you. I don’t have mortgage to offset. Again money isn’t the problem. It’s the thought of being wronged and no justice.

    But today I am trying to think positively.

    Charlie Munger died at age 99, and I am reading some of his advice to help myself.

    quote

    Another thing, of course, is life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows. Doesn’t matter. And some people recover and others don’t. And there I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea." 



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