The best advice I can give you is to get an attorney, a males rights attorney, specifically if you have children. Also document everything, every email/phone call/text message. If there are children involved, odds are she will make false accusations to DHS/child protective services, protect yourself from those by having an internal security system that records locally. You do not have to record in bedrooms but entrances to rooms and common living spaces should be enough to, and I hate to have to say this, but prove you did not do anything wrong. Which is always the burden on the man. KEEP A JOURNAL, it will help sort your thoughts and potentially act as a legal aid to help you keep dates/times more accurately. Have someone close that you can confide in, a pastor, a best friend, no mutual friends though, because they may side with her, etc. Do not ever speak about self harm or harming others, no matter whomever you confide in.
If you have a business, create an LLC at least to provide some coverage, she can go after anything if it is sole proprietor, stick almost all of your personal assets into it so that it is non liquid IE make improvements to your business, stuff you can resell after the divorce, ensure she is not a co owner etc. A competent men's rights attorney should be able to guide you, follow their advice rather than mine if there is anything conflicting. Keep everything legal and above board, hiding assets can come back to bite you with a fair judge. Do not hide things, but declare them in your business if she gets rights to access the LLC, typically all you have to disclose is your tax returns and any retirement(s) funds you have. Income generation is proven by tax returns. Consider all bank accounts you have as joint, she could be hiding money as well, those are all joint, spend them like you usually do but take into account that a judge could declare all assets snap shot on the date of separation or filing could be split.
Good Luck and God Speed. Divorce only enriches lawyers and destroys families. I pray your decisions are what is best for you and your family.
Thanks. The lawyers I used were expensive but useless.
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