I don't know anything about the courts in Minnesota, but I
do know what my lawyers have told me about the courts in Ohio, and dabigtrain, I'm afraid you may be in for a rude and ugly surprise.<p>You described in a previous post how your wife ran up debts while you saved your own money, and how she was reasonable enough to understand the sense in your claim that her debts were her own while your savings were
your own.<p>In my state, or at least my county, the lawyers and the courts wouldn't see it that way. Reason and common sense don't enter into it. It is assumed that whatever choices you made in your marriage you made jointly, and therefore all debts and assets are owned jointly.<p>If your wife spent every day for a decade sitting on the couch in front of the TV eating bon-bons and running up credit card bills on the Home Shopping channel while you worked your *** off, the assumption is that that behavior was implicit within your marriage contract, and therefore your wife is entitled to as much of the benefits of your labors as you are. The fact that an assumption (or rather, a very explicit
promise) of companionship is
also inherent in the marriage contract is apparently too intangible to be considered relevant.<p>If someone can assign a dollar value to it, it gets split. Down the middle. If a dollar value
can't be assigned to it, it doesn't exist in the eyes of the law.<p>So, dabigtrain, once your wife's lawyer gets a look at your situation, do you
really think she's going to be able to resist grabbing half your savings and saddling you with half her debts?<p>On the day my wife deserted me, she claimed she just wanted us each to keep what was ours (whatever that meant) and to go our separate ways. What she and her lawyer have put me through and tried to bleed from me since then has gone far, far beyond anything I could ever have imagined.<p>So get ready to be derailed.
