Don’t Count on 50 Percent
Jan 11th, 2008 by John Stodder
You might think you’re entitled to 50 percent of marital community property if your divorce. Not always. Not if you’re a really bad husband. From The VLW Blog:
After Carey and Dean Roberts’ 24-year marriage ended, Accomack County Circuit Judge Glen Tyler awarded the wife 95 percent of the marital property. The Court of Appeals upheld that equitable distribution in an unpublished opinion released Dec. 27.
Tyler found the husband made only negative contributions to the marriage, especially during the last 10 years the parties lived together. The husband didn’t hold a job and didn’t help around the house. In fact, at times he endangered the financial stability of the family either by creating debt, depleting family resources or by creating situations that could have cost wife her job, according to the appellate panel opinion.
You think if, maybe, he’d washed a dish once in awhile…?
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