divorce advice anyone?

Err.. 1st divorce, painless enough from what I can remember, but cost me. 2nd divorce, she did the paperwork, didn't contest anything, she got legal aid, cost me nothing...So I like cake! Guess who's getting married in December?!

Stick with the Thai/Russian brides. Far more diligent

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Didn't realised you'd been through that. Sorry to hear it

About 18 months ago now Squiz.

Still friends, but it just didn't work out.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Scoobs

Try and do it outside of the courts / lawyers etc. Why line their pockets.

When I split we divvy'd everything, agreed it, job done.

It's possible to do all the divorce paperwork yourself for the courts etc. I did. Took maybe an hour.

What!!!! You and Keith have split????

Divorce...never had one myseofl, but Mum has, and my better half has. Mum's was straight forward. Done all the paperwork herself, nothing to split, job done in 3 months. The better half, well, she got well and truly taken to the cleaners and that was using a solicitor!

So i dont know. If you go scoobs route, i woudl still get something in writing that what you agree to who has what, and witnessed. Then if at anytime in the future, you decided that the Showaddywaddy album really was yours, you can fight your corner.

When i got divorced we did it ourselves we didn't have any children to sort out and we sorted the house out before we did the paperwork it was fairly cheap if i remember

[timwilky]

Never had one myself.

But mates have. They have been squeezed, pressed, sliced and diced. One was forced to sell his Blade, R1 and M5 and give her half. plus of course half the equity in the house that he had bought. (She never worked)

She also wanted half the legacy he would receive when his dad died, half his military pension, plus she wanted 2/3 of his salary. Fortunately even her solicitor told her those were out of order

I did it myself, even though we had a daugher, so you don't need to go through solicitor if you have children.

He kept trying to move to goal posts, but I stood my ground and refused to give a solicitor my hard earned money. We split everything 50/50, I know I was entitled to more with having our daughter, but I wanted to get rid of him as quick as possible the adulterous b******.
It came right in the end and took about 4 months.

Originally Posted by timwilky

Never had one myself.

But mates have. They have been squeezed, pressed, sliced and diced. One was forced to sell his Blade, R1 and M5 and give her half. plus of course half the equity in the house that he had bought. (She never worked)

She also wanted half the legacy he would receive when his dad died, half his military pension, plus she wanted 2/3 of his salary. Fortunately even her solicitor told her those were out of order

he *MUST* have been doing something dodgy for her to ask for that!

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

he *MUST* have been doing something dodgy for her to ask for that!

Just getting what he couldn't get at home, plus he was trying to set up a business. So she knew what his actual work like an idiot income was. He worked 48 hours on 4 12 hour shift plus 3 days a week plastering.

Come the divorce, the plastering job stopped. He wasn't killing himself for her

I divorced my ex-wife on the grounds of my adultery. We tried to do it out of court but we hit a problem when she moved to Australia, so solicitors had to be involved. It ended up costing her a fortune because I did a runner and my solicitor chased her for my bill...and she paid it.

Over all it took 3 years to finalise everything, by which time there were three young nearly-step-kids calling me Daddy.