Withdrawing the divorce may not be a bad idea for now given what you a dealing with. You can always take it up again in a year or so when you are more established and secure in your job. The benefit of that will be that you can then file in New York state and keep the process close to home. I don't think this strategy would be all that bad. Refresh me, did you file or did smokie? Did he counter file? If he did then he could keep the divorce going.
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