Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on "Man Owes $1 Billion In Divorce Settlement" video.

  1. What a dumb comment.  Why don't you just put a sign on your back, "MOTIVE AT PLAY?" 
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  2. No US pre-nuptial is watertight.  I worked in US matrimonial law.  Lawyers love them because they charge a lot for them.  A lot.
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  3. Hey, there are some countries where if you are born into wealth and never work because you don't have to, you are largely exempt from taxes and still qualify for non-means-tested social benefits.  There are countries where married women without a marriage contract are mere chattel and if they screw up a bit of the household money even, it's grounds for divorce with no alimony due.  You'd be surprised at which countries these are, and also 99% of the world's views on date rape.  Some of what you might think are the most civilized and advanced countries have this stuff going on.
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  4. Eh, there are some super-rotten females out there.  People ruin everything.  I did know a female-to-male sex change and it was successful.  He has carried on in construction and no one is the wiser.  The world of "male privilege" was incredible and shocking to him.  He'd had no idea it was that bad.  He documented and published it under a pseudomyn.  Right on.
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  5. I think people have a problem with the amount, that's all.  It's not logical and it's unfair.  That's like saying, almost, that an overweight person who fairly wins a sundae ought not to have it cuz they are already fat enough.  I worked for 22 years declared in the USA and believe me, in Wall Street, you get pregnant and you kiss your career goodbye.  Ditto over here in Europe for any "important" jobs.  I remember talking to a very nice French man of Spanish ancestry (spoke no Spanish, though) who was mystified that his wife's career got lopped off because she had their two children.  "She's a much better and more capable manager than I," he muttered, bewildered.  "It's not fair," I said to him.  "No, it isn't," he replied.  We agreed.  Nice man, very frank with me.  I was forced to give up a career I loved for my first marriage in the USA.  "Why work, I'm rich!"  (K-Mart Corporation.)  I eventually gave in.  For all of his hell, I left quietly and got 8k USD.  I was homeless, jobless in a horrible recession, he hadn't paid my basic health insurance, I didn't even have a bed.  Nothing.  I didn't want to end up feeding the fish so I just stayed away.  Second spouse, 12 years of that BS and I owed him alimony in that state.  Incredible.  I said, take it all and sign this waver.  House I bought and paid for, car paid for, bank accounts, my stuff, I need the mattress and a few thousand.  I left, left the country.  He kept demanding money and attention and stalked me over here in Europe.  He meant business, too.  There was nothing to be done for either of these.  Oh, I have an inoperable hernia from a c-section, child did not survive.  1 billion is way less than half of his total net worth.  So what?  You don't know the reasons for the divorce.  Anyway, it was judged.
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  6. Most of the world is horrible for people and worse if you are also female.
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  7. Eh, you're in with the others looking only at the amount and not the circumstances.  I hope you don't do jury duty.
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  8. Yeah, tell that to Madonna.  She'd have agreed.
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  9. Hey, my first husband considered that.  Would have been a bad bad move.  At least he did get word to me years later when he'd heard a hit was out on me.  (A NYC employer.)  I said thanks via the messenger and confronted the employer with this, laughing.  I said, carefull, oh, and I think I'll sue you.  I did it twice.  Won.  My lawyer was disappeared.  I made them give me the cash in public when payment came due.  You really don't want to be involved in conspiracy to commit murder.  Not a good idea at all.  Even if nothing overtly bad bounces back on you, the quieter stuff can be pretty scary.  yo soy testigo
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  10. valhala56 xoxo!!
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  11. Social Evolution All are breakable in Anglo-Saxon law.  I've worked in American family law.  Anything in an Anglo-Saxon legal system in such a poor language as English is not "solid."  In fact, the US Constitution has problems, not that it's been applied since 1933 when the UCC took over.  In the US, I do know, contracts are made to be broken. 
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  12. Social Evolution The Constitution has not really applied since 1933.  The UCC does.
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  13. Jacc Trippa Um, I am housebound with an inoperable hernia from the c-section.  And the child did not survive.  This was in wedlock.
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  14. The reasonable feminists, and they do and have exist/existed, are aware of male stuff and don't want to be unfair to them at all.
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  15. ChristianIce Maybe I should have typed, "reasonable people who are also feminist."
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  16. Yes, I think New York state is still under "community property" laws and half gets given.  At least, in theory.  Equal parts.
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  17. Well, community property laws in the USA are something you might want to look into, and it certainly varies from state to state.  I got nothing from two American divorces in NYS because the spouses claimed alimony.  Their lying, infidelity, unwillingness to work ... that was my bad judgment, but I did know the law -- I'd worked in it later on.  Heaven help a divorcée in my new country.  Or any female seeking basic child support, slim as it's decreed to be here.  Could be you're not seeing the forest for the trees with this one ...
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  18. Excuse me, I owed my second husband in the USA alimony.  Over 20 years ago.  ahem
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  19. DUKEisALIVE She seems to and it was a 25-year marriage.
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  20. Have you ever been married?  Alimony can apply to males, you know that, right?  In the USA?
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  21. M Theory Enthusiast For what I suffered in three marriages a billion wouldn't have been out of line by much.  Seriously.  My health was destroyed, my children died, careers wrecked, country lost, families lost, homeless twice, diplomas useless in this new country, still have nightmares from 30+ years ago and physical scars.
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  22. M Theory Enthusiast None of my children lived.  Due to family breakups and problems, I have been cut off from my inlaws three times -- all of them.  Period.  I had allowed myself to put down full emotional roots for this last one -- 21 years.  I am truly devasted and each year gets sadder than the last, not being able to say goodbye, not to go to funerals even, nothing, it's horrible.  Children are only part of the equation.  I couldn't even visit my two houses in Brittany, my lands and forests, for the past five years.  Sold and that was that, no contents (of mine) considered for me, no way for closure.  Everyone seems upset by the dollar amount in this one!  That is not seeing the forest for the trees.  We don't see the judgment decision.  People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.  You may have only a modest life, but what if?  I am not a litigious person but really, I give judgment on this case wide berth indeed.  There WERE family ties involved in this case, from what little I have heard.  What, only a living child makes anyone valid?  Are you that shallow?  Those are my thoughts you asked for.
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  23. M Theory Enthusiast You DID say, "Thoughts?"  Don't ask if you don't want to know. 
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  24. M Theory Enthusiast Sorry, you should have specified that.  No way I could have known.  Please, you made me feel bad about the "novel."  You asked, I responded.
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  25. dakotagau That's a bit personal.  I have not killed nor eaten any human.  The f-work offends me.  If you want to know something, don't throw obscenities at me.  Do you talk to your mother with that mouth?
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  26. This is an old story in the USA.  I think California was one of the first community property states and New York became another.  A lot of this has been in place for half a century. 
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  27. Ekejiuba Ogbuagu Yes, it also made sense when women didn't even have the right to vote, and when only white males who owned over a certain amount of land could vote, too.
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  28. Turandot29 Yes, agreed.  I have won every non-marital legal issue on two continents in my life, at least to settlement point in my favor.  I can crunch numbers and if they got to a correct settlement and I considered total return, of course I accepted when it was finally, finally the right amount.  I am half Pennsy Dutch and we tend to be extremely tenacious.  Years of industry, international travel to keep up with stuff, I am one thorn in the side.  I've never done anything capricious and have kept high moral ground.  Usually the rulings are not FREELY available to the public.  It depends on the country.  They can indeed be interesting to look at.  I was a paralegal on two continents. 
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