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This is hard to fathom but it seems the court put him in a no win situation to begin with. His wife he has to have friends or family in high places or he has some serious enemies. Here is a summary of that happened.
- Wife took everything this Lawyer has (house, money, assets)
- Banned him from seeing his kids
- Lawyer had to pay 100% of pre-Tax income to Wife. Man had to pay for his taxes, food and housing and went broke.
- Loses license to practice Law once he was unable to pay his Child Support.
- Lawyer now in jail in Colorado.
Now that he is in jail, how much money is the ex-wife going to get?
She (and her lawyer, and the judge) sound like real winners.
But, only if you somehow equate losing with winning!
This is hard to fathom but it seems the court put him in a no win situation to begin with. His wife he has to have friends or family in high places or he has some serious enemies. Here is a summary of that happened.
- Wife took everything this Lawyer has (house, money, assets)
- Banned him from seeing his kids
- Lawyer had to pay 100% of pre-Tax income to Wife. Man had to pay for his taxes, food and housing and went broke.
- Loses license to practice Law once he was unable to pay his Child Support.
- Lawyer now in jail in Colorado.
Colorado is the worst place on the planet to get a divorce. It is completely out of control.
In case you are not aware, you can be thrown in jail for contempt as this guy was, with NO jury trial. If you owe alimony and don't pay, for WHATEVER reason, even if you are indigent, a judge can simply say "jail him (or her)", and you are in the can. You are in until either the judge, OR YOUR EX-SPOUSE, decides you can leave. That's right, when you are in jail for contempt, the length of your incarceration is controlled by your ex-spouse.
A new, even more punitive, alimony law was *just* passed by the Colorado Legislature. Guaranteed alimony in any marriage or civil union over 3 years, default amount is 40% of gross income, with child support on top of that if you have children. If you have been married over 20 years, alimony is for LIFE. If you lose your job, you are expected to liquidate all assets to continue paying the alimony, and if you run out of assets, you are thrown in jail for as long as the judge and your ex-spouse think is appropriate. In addition, you are required to carry and pay for a life insurance policy on yourself, payable to your ex.
Is there any question at this point why the marriage rate is plummeting? Why that rate of single motherhood is skyrocketing? Who in hell is going to marry on these terms?
That is horrible.
I believe that SOMETIMES alimony and palimony are necessary. (one spouse was a stay at home) But this is going WAY too far. No one should ever be kept from their children (unless they are a danger to the children), and have to pay 100% of everything they make to a former spouse.
That is horrible.
I believe that SOMETIMES alimony and palimony are necessary. (one spouse was a stay at home) But this is going WAY too far. No one should ever be kept from their children (unless they are a danger to the children), and have to pay 100% of everything they make to a former spouse.
Sorry I missed that. I would need more background then. A woman can not simply keep a father from seeing his kids.
So because of this info I decided to watch (I will note that I did not see even then the source then until near the end).
When did the system start asking if you fear for your safety? What if he had said yes?
Second, the background is still not provided. Courts nowhere take everything from you including your kids and every penny you make. The video is at best incomplete.
Sounds to me that he simply decided to ignore the initial ruling and paid nothing and got far behind on his payments. Now have the courts generally gave the kids to the mother outside of exceptional situations? Yes and I would agree that isn't fair but this doesn't seem to be a good case to make that argument.
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