One year in but a newbie

[Lifes Twists]

So my wife emailed me this morning that she wants to proceed with the divorce. In Connecticut you can do a do it yourself divorce. this is the route she wants to follow since she has no money for a lawyer. Unfortunately she has visions of alimony. She wants me to provide car insurance for her and the kids as alimony. The problem is I would have to take out policy for her and the kids and an additional policy for me and the kids since I own the car the kids are driving. She has to have a policy since we will be divorced and the kids are living with her. So it would be double or almost $800 per month. I did the calculations based on what the lawyers had done previously for alimony and she would be getting $175.00 per month.She also has incurred a great deal of debt up to about $45000.00 since we separated. Financially I will be better off to go through with the divorce at this point. I will spell it all out to her. I will tell her its not personal, just business at this point. I believe cutting her loose at this point is probably the best thing for her and me. She will be in a world of hurt financially. I may have to have the kids move in with me if that happens. I expect we can probably file next week and see if we can get everything done in 3 to 4 months. At that point I will only be talking child support for 1 as my middle daughter will be 18 and out of school. Maybe this will be the start of the wake up my wife needs if she hits financial rock bottom.