Frenzied Wombat
Potato del Grande
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I know an actual attorney that lives in Highland Park who was attacked by his drunk wife with a carving knife. Even with that incident on record (she admitted to the cops that she came after him with a knife), testimony from his maid that his wife was frequently drunk during the day and that she had to go pick up the kids from school because his wife was passed out, and 75K in attorney fees, he STILL couldn't full custody. When he realized that at best he'd have them 50% of the time, he withdrew the divorce proceedings and reconciled with his wife simply because he said that he'd prefer to live in hell than risk his kids being alone with his drunk wife 50% of the time.
Flash forward a few years, her alcoholism got worse, and she agreed to check herself into a ridiculously expensive rehab clinic (which of course he paid for). She was there for a month and the doctors refused to give him any progress information, as despite him paying, he had "no right" to her treatment info unless she explicitly gave permission for it to be released to him (which she declined). He goes to pick her up a month later at the end of treatment, she says she needs some "time alone" and that she wants an apartment, he obliges, and a few weeks later he goes by and finds the place littered with empty vodka bottles and she's been shacking up with some dude he finds out she was banging in rehab.. lol..
So he starts up divorce proceedings again, thinking he has enough ammo this time around to get full custody. Nope. In fact, he had to pay a thousand bucks or so for some breathalyzer device to be installed in her car so she could come pick the kids up.
Flash forward a few years, her alcoholism got worse, and she agreed to check herself into a ridiculously expensive rehab clinic (which of course he paid for). She was there for a month and the doctors refused to give him any progress information, as despite him paying, he had "no right" to her treatment info unless she explicitly gave permission for it to be released to him (which she declined). He goes to pick her up a month later at the end of treatment, she says she needs some "time alone" and that she wants an apartment, he obliges, and a few weeks later he goes by and finds the place littered with empty vodka bottles and she's been shacking up with some dude he finds out she was banging in rehab.. lol..
So he starts up divorce proceedings again, thinking he has enough ammo this time around to get full custody. Nope. In fact, he had to pay a thousand bucks or so for some breathalyzer device to be installed in her car so she could come pick the kids up.
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