Anyway, he filed an "appearance" and answered the divorce paper. To sum it up, SO wants maintenance from me, claims I purposely decided not to work (lets just forget that for the past 8 years I have been doing daily therapy with the youngest plus stayed home to watch the kids and help him further his career), and wants to have custody of the kids. Since someone with his mental background might not even be allowed to visit the kids let alone have a say in their upbringing, you can guess what kind of lawyer he has.
In addition, he wants any "defaulting" decisions (eg. the extension of the Order of Protection) to be dropped. Another thousand for the lawyer to fight for nothing since someone who is forcibly remanded to a psychiatric ward for violence and poor judgement is not going to be allowed to drop an order of protection. My lawyer is back from vacation next week so I'll find out then what we are going to do.
The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
So I plan to tell my lawyer that I do not wish to meet with the SO in the same room under any circumstances except those required by law. He keeps requesting the four of us (two lawyers and we two meet.) I want half of the estate, a little more than half the house, five years to pay his part of the principle of the house off, payment for all his manic spending, support for the kids and maintenance if he is not on social security. Tho I doubt he will work again. He is just too scary and it takes a while to calm the whole mental system down.
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