I'm going through a very expensive divorce

United States
February 17, 2008 10:32pm CST
I have been separated for 2 years. I filed for divorce 3 years ago. I have 2 young children one with autism. My husband has done everything you can think of to make this litigation more difficult and as long as possible. Depositions, custody evaluations, employability evaluations, computer experts and lots more! He's still not done! he is asking for another evaluator because he is not happy with the report of the first one. The essence of this litigation is the custody of our children. He is very sneaky. I found that he had a spyware program installed on my computer since the year we got married and I didn't know about it until recently. So now we have to have a jury trial! I am a teacher and he is trying everything he can to ruin my job as well. He basically is trying to say that I am not appropriate with the minors! Because of the seriousness of his accusations I had to go through a lot to defend myself and to prove that he is lying. Fortunately I have succeeded so far but as a result I have a huge debt to my attorney. More than 1.5 times my yearly salary. I don't know how I can get myself out of this debt. The divorce is not final yet so I still have hope that the judge will make him pay for everything that he put me threw but what if he doesn't?
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@Deea48 (1166)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I am so sorry for you hardship. Why is it that instead of really thinking about what is best for his chidren, he seems to be vocused on hurting you. Does he not realize he hurts his children when he hurts you. I was fortunate that in the case of our divorce my ex did as I asked. We never even had to go to court. Our goal was to make the transition as easy and gental as we could for our children. We both new by turning things ugly we would only hurt them in the long run. I hope things work out soon for you, and you can finaly have some peace and quiet. Then get on with your life a New. Then your children can settle in to what ever new routine that is decided upon.
• Canada
18 Mar 08
OMG..I`m so sorry to hear you going true this,and I knowe what your talking about because I`m in a similar situation.Only that we are now seperatet for 4y and it tuck 1y just to get the separation.Lots of pain..and not even divorced. Aswell I have a son whos suffering from autism this makes things even harder because of this the Lawyers decidet to give joint custody what makes everything complicated and I need permission from ex to even move a few KM away.My hubby did aswell track everything on the pc and tried to accuse me of all sort of things,but this should not affect anything i belive. Anyways hope things turn out good for you. be strong and trie to see if mabay legal aid can help with the costs.
• United States
26 Feb 08
I am sooooo sorry to hear about what this man is doing to you. That is terrible. I think that you need to talk to your lawyer about the money situation and she what they think about suing this man for your legal bills since his is the one accusing you and its false. I have never been married so I dont know that struggle. But I do know the single parent struggle. What I suggest on your "downtime" is go to the library (this way he cant track what you are doing and find out what is out there money wise to help with your child that has autism. There are resources out there its just where. Let me know if you need any help.