The WAW often asks for 99% custody of the kids, the house, the car, alimony, your retirement and their lawyer's fees. This is in the hope that you'd be so broken that you will not respond letting them walkaway with the entire store. In reality the court usually puts a line down the middle just to get rid of you as soon as possible. You can either claim "irreconcilable" differences or her "insanity". Retain the best lawyer in your coastal town; once you do this then try a lawyer/mediator and use the retained L as backup while you coast along to D and rack up legal costs. There's very likely a plan in Mrs SP's head to replace you ASAP if she hasn't already got someone in mind. Sometimes you may have a full tank of Mojo one day only the find out a dark truth and then you run on empty for a while.