my sister divorced at age 52 after 30 years of marriage. She is remarried and very happy now. He did not want to split, he lives in the same town and it is difficult. He wanted to buy the house, and he assumed he would only have to pay her half of what they had paid for it 29 years earlier. He has convinced the kids that she "took him to the cleaners".
As far as divorce lawyers, I can't say anything good . My daughter filed for divorce twenty months ago. The man is an alcoholic and drug addict, he has not given her one penny of child support for the three pre school children or mortgage payments in this time period. He works out of state, and gets DUI's frequently. He has to have supervised visits and hasn't requested one for a year. Yet he is fighting her for custody, he has no home or physical address, and the judge is still thinking about it. He took out another credit card with her name and has amassed thirty thousand more debt with her name attached. The lawyer fees have already been between thirty and thirty five thousand. My daughter works two jobs to try to support herself and the kids, and paid off a huge mortgage til the house was sold (at a loss). She has an order of protection out because he has made threats. Does it make sense that the divorce has not gone through.
