I think the better the lawyer you get, the better your assumptions will be.
I was a member of a separated/divorced/widowed support group that met weekly for the entire year in 2008. One of the women in that group was married to an extremely wealthy business man and he made way more than $150k per year, it was probably more like $300 - 400k and his lawyers did some sort of voodoo, which was unfortunate for her because he had cheated on his wife with his secretary. In the end she got the marital property but no alimony and I asked her why and she said "his lawyers knew all the tricks!", she couldn't afford to pay the upkeep on that property (utilities, property taxes, etc.) and she had to sell it but she receives no alimony from him and at the time her son was 16 years and she didn't get any child support from him either - I kept asking her "why? how could this be?" and all she could offer was that when you have good lawyers anything is possible. I felt really bad for her, she hadn't worked that much in the entire time they were married and re-entering the workforce with no education and work experience was traumatic for her.
Do I condone what this guy did to her? Never in a million years. Cheating on his wife, leaving her for his secretary girlfriend and even letting go of any connection he had with his son was just incredible and on top of that he got away with no alimony or child support.
My point is never say never, reality is always stranger than fiction.
