When this first started she thought she could take half the assets I had accumulated and keep all her big salary and just walk out on us. Where I live an inheritance is kept separate from marital property and spousal support for me is 1.5% to 2% for every year of marriage to a maximum of 50% I’ve been married for 34 years so I’d be at the maximum. When I pointed this out to her from government websites then things changed to, “It’s a big house we could share it.” She actually said that to the marriage counselor. Yes done the marriage counseling thing too. We’ve followed the script completely. It’s like she started thinking like a teenager or her IQ was lowered. Those two things about not valuing my contributions to the marriage and her standing there saying she’s taking half the assets, going to keep all her salary with the words, “Are you going to be okay,” is something I will never forget to my dying day.
The one mistake I made was mixing the inheritance with the marital home. We sold our rental house made the house we were living in our new rental house and bought this current house. In other words I used the proceeds from rental house that was the inheritance money and bought this house our primary residence and the old house used to be our primary residence that became the rental house. She told the attorney to put the houses in both our names when we had agreed to leave the rental house in my name as I had no income and would pay much less taxes, she is in a 40% bracket and I thought she’ll learn when she sees the tax bill. I didn’t challenge her at the attorney’s office because we had been married 22 years, I loved her and we were going to grow old together. So I may have to argue in court and let the judge decide that one. We’re not at that point yet.
