Quote: (07-08-2013 01:49 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:
Quote: (07-08-2013 01:42 PM)puckman Wrote:
Brian hit the nail on the head. Turn the tables. It sounds like he didnt even try. Here my friends is how a beta gets a divorce. And unfortunately, 90% of men. I have a hard time believing his story about the court. Unless he agreed to it, I have never seen this happen to a man who actively and aggressively defended his role as a father. Even in Canada. He left his evidence at his lawyers office? Really? And he had to go to court once a month for a year and a half? Wow, sounds like a typical divorce.
In defense of the guy, he ran out of money to pay the lawyers. I suspect they weren't falling oall over themselves to get him his documents once he was no longer a source of money.
As far as exerting now effort, he was probably trying to earn the money (I I guess he is an internationally known TV personality) that ended up condemning him to astronomical child support.
And the demon behind the scenes I as I keep ranting about, is imputed income. There's no real oversight by qualified accountants etc. over what is a reasonable amount, these are government bureaucrats declaring "Oh, he should be making about.... (X). SO you owe... y% of X."
Most lawyers work until the case is over, then bill you. He likely had no strategy and did no leg work on his own. He probably wrote a fat check hands off, like he did ms wonderful, and just let them do the work. They probably took him because he wasn't strong enough to fire them and hire good representation, similar to his marriage. He probably exerted no control or direction over the process which ultimately left him without his kids.
He can work in Canada, no? Imputed income timing was something that could have actually worked in his favor, but again it sounds like he was either too disengaged or misled to realize that.