In December "her side" demanded "my side" put up or shut up -- she had to have a settlement offer by January 1, dammit!
On December 23 we put up.
On February 18 she replied. Every paragraph rejected. "Her side" produced a counter-proposal in which I miraculously owe her 75 large, even though she earns quadripple what I do.
Mandatory conference with the judge on May 20-something, so "my side" has been stalling on a reply.
Meanwhile, she's got another of her overseas f*ckfests scheduled for next week -- which means, naturally, that for the past week she's been Batsh*t Crazy, bombarding me with nastygrams full of references to her "loathing" and "contempt" and "burning hatred" for Smiley's Person hisself, a procedure that will be temporarily suspended while she's gone and then will kick back in for about a week to 10 days after her return. This, I have observed, seems to be the pattern.
On the other hand.... Part of her "counter-proposal" was a reduction in the amount of child support by roughly $1,000. This figure was based on an absurd computation of what my income "might be" (yeah, and if I lived among the clouds on the top of Candycane Mountain in the Kingdom of Daisies, I'd have a pony, too). So by dam if she didn't actually low-ball her most recent support check! Without so much as a howdyedo, let alone notification of the Mouthpiece.
So my guy got every bit as p*ssed as me and went to court.
Whoa, Nelly! All of a sudden in the past 24 hours her lawyer -- and Herself -- have been Sunshine and Roses! Goshomighteeogollygeewhillikers, how they'd like to cooperate! Hey, Mouthpiece Guy, can we, like, Totally Mega Cooperate?
It's so over-the-top that the Mouthpiece actually forwarded one of her lawyer's e-mails to me with the subject line: "Obsequious Much? LOL."
So that was a Total Smackdown, and that's where it stands right now.
And no, @Gypsy, I'm not responding to her nastygrams. I provide factual responses where required otherwise nada.
