My ex tried the same thing with me! Always trying to scare me into thinking that if we had to get lawyers involved, they'd end up the rich, lucky ones. All he wanted was me to cave and let him continue to be a bully. I got my own lawyer and went to court. It didn't turn out financially well for me because ex paid off the judge who was not fair at all. And if that sounds like sour grapes, it's not. Ex later admitted it to me, laughed about it, and the judge was driving a new car the following week and when I ran into him several years later at a social function he would not look me in the eye, and left literally through the back door. Told me friend he "knew that I knew what he'd done, and didn't want me to make a scene." LOL. But I felt fine. Money can only do so much, and it can't buy peace in your heart, which I certainly have. Ex is still floundering out there, 15 years later, with no friends and a trail of broken people he's used and tossed, miserable and strung out on prescription meds. Sorry, didn't mean to hijack. Just don't let him bully you. Be a FREAKING ROCK.
M-60 H-51 M-14 years BD 12/26/16 S 1/1/17
"First the pain, then the rising." Glennon Doyle Melton