The journey begins

[ClingingToHope]

Here's the email I sent to my L:

"I do not like the fact that in their offer STBXW is getting to include all of the debts that she’s run up since we split up and I’m stuck with submitting just the debts we had when I moved out.

I also mailed you a copy of my March 31 credit union statement, which showed how much I still owed on my car -- $8,600 or $8,000 not $7,000 as they are contending.

But I also do not want to keep sending letter after letter especially when each one costs me roughly $80 or so.

I’d like to insist that they factor in my CORRECT debt on the car, which I believe would have to bring their offer back to the $11,000 range.

Here’s the big question, can we stipulate that this has to be AFTER TAX money. If they will raise the offer to $11,000 and it isn’t money from a retirement plan that’ll cost me 40 percent in taxes if I use it to pay down debt then I will accept it.

After this is settled, how much more is there to do? I want to get this over with."

What do you think?