Love, Money, Divorce and Lawyers: So romantic

So romantic

By XRP123 - 19/11/2022 02:00

Today, I finished negotiating my divorce with my ex-wife who is a lawyer. I spent more on legal fees than she has made from working in any of the last 5 years. It's hard for a lawyer to make so little in Canada, I'm glad that law degree, which I paid for, saved her so much money in legal fees. I hate all lawyers. Scum. FML

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By Anonymous - 20/09/2023 23:02

Today, via legal bollocks, I got nothing from my husband in the divorce, even though he cheated on me. On my wage, I can’t afford to live in this area anymore, so I have to move and quit my job to get another job wherever I end up moving. This is why people hate lawyers. FML

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By Toolmaker - 23/08/2018 15:00

Today, we got the bill from our lawyer. She'd recommended taking my common-law wife's ex-husband to court for child support, so we went to court and won. The judge awarded us over $8300! The bill came to $18,000. FML

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By Glutton for Punishment. - 07/09/2010 21:30 - France

Today, I got a separation agreement from my wife. It was sent from the lawyer she spent the long weekend with right before she told me it was over. FML

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Deflated

By Pay rise - 22/11/2022 10:00

Today, my lawyer let me know that due to the rising costs of living, her rate has increased to $565 an hour. That's more 20 times my pay. I'm not even getting a cost of living increase. FML

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Business is business

By Anonymous - 08/04/2021 23:30 - United Kingdom

Today, my lawyer lied to me about how much of a settlement she won for my workplace accident. I got £20,000, but she lied and kept £55,000 for herself. My lawyer is my wife, and she claims she’s entitled to that money since she’s the one who’s really suffered caring for me during my recovery. FML

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Bad sitcom levels of incompetence

By Anonymous - 24/10/2023 00:02

Today, in a moment reminiscent of Two and a Half Men, my divorce lawyer screwed me over and gave my soon-to-be-ex-wife 90% of everything. I now need to pay a new lawyer to fix what she screwed up. And yes, she was lashing out at me because my brother had sex with her then never called her back. FML

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Born to run

By Nate - 21/12/2020 11:02

Today, I can’t divorce my lazy, unemployed, shopping-addicted, cheating wife because her father is one of the best, sleaziest, underhanded divorce lawyers in our city. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/12/2009 21:14 - United States

Today, my lawyer threatened to sue me because I can't afford his bill, which he sent to me after getting me out of a lawsuit. FML

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Marriage story

By collegekid - 17/05/2020 14:00

Today, after 25 years of marriage, my parents decided to get a very nasty and extremely expensive divorce. Using my college tuition to pay for it. FML

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No justice

By Anonymous - 04/10/2020 20:01 - Germany - Hörth

Today, my ex-boss still owes me almost 900€. I just paid another 150€ to have a lawyer tell me that, yes, the law is clearly on my side but no, I will most likely not win in court because I don't have hard proof. I just paid money to be told I won't be getting the money I'm owed. FML

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poopface82 18

Saturday 19 November 2022 3:43

Hey now. We’re not all bad, just…well, divorce lawyers are. But if you ever get in a car accident and need a lawyer for personal injury, you’ll be thanking that lawyer.

hdisnfjs91 21

Sunday 20 November 2022 12:20

She shouldn’t have been allowed to work the case, it should have been someone else that is a third party.

Comments

poopface82 18

Saturday 19 November 2022 3:43

Hey now. We’re not all bad, just…well, divorce lawyers are. But if you ever get in a car accident and need a lawyer for personal injury, you’ll be thanking that lawyer.

pfmarshallx 7

Saturday 19 November 2022 7:26

Moral of the story, if you’re a straight eligible modern man in the West don’t ever get married. Because marriage is the only contract where SHE literally gets rewarded for breaking it. Case in point

Taurus_ChicKa 36

Saturday 19 November 2022 22:36

Why would you allow your soon to be ex-wife to be your lawyer? Nothing good could possibly come from that.

XRP123 11

Sunday 20 November 2022 20:04

She was not my lawyer. She made as little as $11K as a lawyer a few years ago(Kids were in school full time). But she had lots of time and energy to represent herself against me. So while she was incapable of making money for the family when we were married, she is very good at costing me a fortune during the divorce. The proverb a person who represents themself has a fool for a client was never more true. Divorce is way too emotional a subject to represent yourself. And in Canada, everything in the law is grey and so the only winners are lawyers.