Random Divorce Lawyers Share Most Insane Ways Spouses Tried To Hurt Each Other (18 items)

• (#5) The Guy That Tried To Stick Together

  Posted by Redditor /u/Maxwyfe:

  I work for a divorce attorney now but the craziest thing came to my attention when I worked for the prosecuting attorney.

  This couple was breaking up and the mister left the house. The missus went to work the next morning as usual. When she returned home in the evening she found mister had been to the house and removed his clothing and belongings as she expected.

  What she didn't expect was that he had also Gorilla Glued her belongings together. He glued the TV remote to the table, the phone to its cradle, the couch pillows to the couch, and even glued the vacuum cleaner to the carpet. She called the police and reported this as property damage. The police went with her through the house documenting dozens of items glued to various things, but for days she was discovering random things and she would call to amend or update her report. "My good oven mitts were glued to the wall" or "He glued the eff-ing sheets together in the linen closet!"

  I've seen people do and say really awful things to each other, but that was diabolical.
• (#2) A Special Kind Of Terrible

  Posted by Redditor /u/hecticlorax:

  Bad seperation: wife filed a restraining order on the husband (very common, wasn't a terrible guy, but not great either). A year into the divorce his mother was dying. [H]e asked his sister to speak with his ex-wife and ask to bring the kids to see her in the hospital before she died. The wife never did; instead, she went to the court and said he violated the restraining order by trying to contact her (you can't contact someone through another party).

  He admitted it and explained the situation, but was found in breach of the order. His mother died while he was locked up, and the wife never brought the kids to see her.
• (#3) She Turned On The Water Works

  Posted by Redditor /u/Slagathar1:

  Divorce lawyer here. Spouse had been out of the house for weeks. She waited until he was on a business trip, came into the house, turned on all of the faucets, plugged the drains, turned off the furnace, and left. It was -10 degrees . He came back five days later. The house was ruined. The water froze and cracked the foundation.
• (#9) Fire Sale

  Posted by a Redditor:

  The couple separated 10 years ago but didn't officially divorce until a couple years ago.

  She was going to get his house so he burnt it down, then faxed her the transfer of ownership forms.
• (#11) The Aftermath

  Posted by Redditor /u/Flintoid:

  I didn't handle the divorce; I handled parts of the aftermath. In the divorce, she went AWOL, was living in a truck somewhere, and just couldn't handle it mentally.

  He gave her five of his nine companies.

  They were the ones that owed seven figures in payroll taxes.

  He had made her the bookkeeper on paper.

  She spent decades trying to shake the IRS for the results.
• (#6) Divorce Was Covered By Geraldo Rivera

  Posted by Reditor /u/docowenskaiser1:

  Not a lawyer...

  Parents' divorce seemed simple dad cheated on mom, mom gets custody of me. Dad didn't like paying alimony and child support to the tune of $2k a month after he gave up rights. Dad had great idea, pay a hitman $15k to kill soon to be ex-wife. Dad goes through with it, idiot actually pays undercover cop the money. Dad then flys back to Canada (home) and wait for results. International task force is formed to try and detain him. Geraldo Rivera covers story, idiot dad gets arrested in Toronto and flown back to California. In this process, I was three in care of family back down South, mother in protection by police. Dad's family apparently wealthy gets good lawyer is charged with 17 felonies can't remember how many he was convicted of. He gets 18 months. After all of this mom still had to sue for divorce it took two years.

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