justice4ever
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WASTEFUL SPENDING/DISSIPATION OF ASSETS BY SPOUSE: Married for 23 years, 4 children, stay home mother. Discovered husband's extramarital affair of 1 year and wasteful spending on girlfriend. Husband didn't want to move out of the home or get any agreement or legal action for about 2 years. He has kept the relationship with his mistress until today (about 4 yrs.), and has kept spending on international trips, hotels, restaurants, flowers, jewelry, lingerie, gifts, International phone calls, you name it! We are getting legally separated. After 3 years there is finally a temporary order. I decided to go through the Discovery Process, so far I have found more than $60K in wasteful spending. He an his lawyer say that he is entitled to spend money for recreational purposes and have a life. How about his own family? What are my real chances of getting at least 50% of that money back?. Obviously he doesn't have the money, but my lawyer says I might get a higher percentage of the house. What would be the best and most economical way to prove his wasteful spending?. I need to protect my children. We don't even own our house yet, having an equity of $130K and huge debts: 22K Home Equity, 70K in credit cards (big part spent on the affair). I feel completely stuck and that the system is letting him have his cake and eat it since both lawyers are saying that it will cots too much money to prove the dissipation of assets. It is clear as water, I have all the credit card statements, bank statements, phone bills that prove all his expenses. Any ideas?