Not to disagree with you in the slightest, "but" - completely crazy story. I know a gal who got sucked in by a total narcissist loser. Like had friends warning her do not do this but she was a goner - such as it is with narcissists I guess. She had the house and job. They got married, dream wedding etc. He convinced her to have kid even - then he took off, IIRC before it was born. Somehow, I don't know if totally incompetent lawyer or what, she was found to be the supporting person and she had to basically pay him off with half the increase in house equity for her house (so like $50k at the time) to get free and clear and not have him have any visitation rights or whatever else.
I think this is probably the only time in the history of the country this has happened, I couldn't believe any of it.
It does happen. You'll find the guy in question has connections higher up. Maybe not financial connections, but familial connections.
My dad got smacked by a drunk driver and nearly died. Needed every bone in his face reconstructed and still suffers from migraines powerful enough to cause the veins under his eyes to rupture.
The punk was the nephew of the sheriff. So we weren't surprised when we discovered they at no point in time decided it was necessary to give him a sobriety test.
He got off sky free, and my father had to pay for his skull to be stitched back together.
Every so often, on the anniversary of the crash, my father calls him to wish him happy anniversary and ask if he remembers who he is talking to.
In other words, shit is fucked.
The Court system favors women, unless they are upstanding citizens. In which case, they screw them harder than their deadbeat husbands did when they said "I do."
The Court system representatives have been trained to win at all costs, for clout more than money. Justice today is defined as one-upping the competition, not seeking the Truth.
Should the Truth be strictly adhered to, then the Court system would, in equal part, work to reform dissocial behavior rather than reward it. In a society with a well-aligned moral compass, and a close-knit family involved in the goal of proliferation there to prevent domestic abuse, the Court system would go on to involve itself only in petty squabbles of kermudgions and scrooges.
Of course, there's no profit in that, so round and round we go with laws passed, precedents set, and procedure designed to ensure there's always a way to screw someone honest over a barrel of fetid scams.
Not to disagree with you in the slightest, "but" - completely crazy story. I know a gal who got sucked in by a total narcissist loser. Like had friends warning her do not do this but she was a goner - such as it is with narcissists I guess. She had the house and job. They got married, dream wedding etc. He convinced her to have kid even - then he took off, IIRC before it was born. Somehow, I don't know if totally incompetent lawyer or what, she was found to be the supporting person and she had to basically pay him off with half the increase in house equity for her house (so like $50k at the time) to get free and clear and not have him have any visitation rights or whatever else.
I think this is probably the only time in the history of the country this has happened, I couldn't believe any of it.
It does happen. You'll find the guy in question has connections higher up. Maybe not financial connections, but familial connections.
My dad got smacked by a drunk driver and nearly died. Needed every bone in his face reconstructed and still suffers from migraines powerful enough to cause the veins under his eyes to rupture.
The punk was the nephew of the sheriff. So we weren't surprised when we discovered they at no point in time decided it was necessary to give him a sobriety test.
He got off sky free, and my father had to pay for his skull to be stitched back together.
Every so often, on the anniversary of the crash, my father calls him to wish him happy anniversary and ask if he remembers who he is talking to.
In other words, shit is fucked.
The Court system favors women, unless they are upstanding citizens. In which case, they screw them harder than their deadbeat husbands did when they said "I do."
The Court system representatives have been trained to win at all costs, for clout more than money. Justice today is defined as one-upping the competition, not seeking the Truth.
Should the Truth be strictly adhered to, then the Court system would, in equal part, work to reform dissocial behavior rather than reward it. In a society with a well-aligned moral compass, and a close-knit family involved in the goal of proliferation there to prevent domestic abuse, the Court system would go on to involve itself only in petty squabbles of kermudgions and scrooges.
Of course, there's no profit in that, so round and round we go with laws passed, precedents set, and procedure designed to ensure there's always a way to screw someone honest over a barrel of fetid scams.
Shit like your dad/sheriff story sickens me. Ugh.
Insightful comment about the courts - yes in this case if the gal won, no big payoff from the deadbeat....