Hi Nat,
Thanks for your input. I'm certainly not money hungry and my main goal are the kids....number one priority. I agree, there are no winners in family law, but things can certainly be much easier if the other party wasn't excessively greedy. I understand your struggle and it appears you have been betrayed without knowing the full story.
I offered my wife the family home, a new car, no mortgage and a large sum of cash. This worked out to be about 50% of my assets. In addition to child support (happy to pay this), to keep my kids at the private school which they love, I offered to pay all of the school fee's, uniforms, excursions etc until their education is complete. And to top it off, also happy to pay all the dental fee's. Now Nat, would you be happy with this???????? In my case she wasn't, and wanted what i offered plus an additional 30% of my assets.
My attitude towards the law has changed considerably over the previous year. You can show evidence of nastiness, betrayal, deceit and just plain non human behavior by the other half, but the court just don't give a s**t. And now, it appears court orders are meaningless as well. You try and get help and advice, but they all refer you back to your lawyer....a vicious circle.
I must say that the money you pay on lawyers and barristers, i have yet to see anything extraordinary from any of them.
Regards
Steve
