My thread is not so good.. sometimes posting helps other times I realise I have spent hours living other peoples misery...so stay off.
but I am back at a place now where trying to straighten out my thinking ..so posting helps.. and reading other situations.. hope the money thing gets ..you have children to consider ... I hate negotiaitng money but it is not for you but them
as to trusting your lawyer my H was his most eloquent in 6 months when trying to logically argue that just because I have a lawyer.. does not mean I should listen to her ( especially when she is a pretty assertive and on the ball woman and scares the $$$$ out of him.)
I nodded and said "hmm let'S see" his standard PA answer..