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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Divorce lawyers have every incentive to maximize their billings. Fully litigating divorce and custody issues tends to benefit nobody except the attorneys. I know people who have litigated custody issues to death only to end up with the standard custody arrangement and $60k in legal bills. There are cheaper ways to get revenge.
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On the plus side, my godfather put his separation dispute (the question was whether or not they were married, since Texas has common law marriage) on his Amex and something near a million miles off of the whole thing. Amex flew him to the US Open last year as a thank you to one of their better clients.
Oh, and, after a full trial and two years of bickering, several other severed relationships as friends and family took sides, a possible defamation suit, and a good several hundred thousand dollars, the judge agreed that they were never married.
