[Magdalen] your ongoing prayers, please

[Molly Wolf]

I'm positive that the percentage bogeytroll has no footing in Canada. IANAL, but I doubt if a court would look favourably on a greatly unequal division of assets after a long-term marriage, especially if one spouse had been the stay-at-home spousal unit.

Actually, I'm rather fond of "bogeytroll":  one who enjoys stirring up fear for trollish purposes.

Remember, if I've haven't passed the Ontario Bar, neither has Jim.  OTOH, I've been divorced in Ontario and Jim hasn't.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Oct 8, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm glad to read this for myself and am taking the papers to my lawyer with whom I spoke last night.  In effect they have made a preemptive strike, filing their Application within a day of receiving our last response in which we suggested arbitration to resolve the impasse.   Jim has been in England for a couple of weeks and returns in a week or so.  Even dropped off a birthday card before he left.  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
>> On 10/8/2014 1:52 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>> In the USA each state can vary GREATLY in how it handles divorce... TX is a 50/50 state and initially the two parties contact each other through their attorneys unless they have decided upon the decision to divorce on their own.  There is not much 'dickering' on the 50/50  if one goes to court here or if there are attorney's involved. Until 15 years ago there was no alimony in TX, and now it is only in the case of underage children, if at all. California for instance (12 year old info), mandated an alimony payment based  on a % of the income from the larger salaried partner to the smaller salaried partner for a period of years equal to one half the amount of the length of the union.
>> 
>> In the last 20 years, having known a number of friends divorcing, I've never even heard of the 'percentage' approach to charging. Perhaps that is reserved for the more wealthy among us.
>> 
>> I would imagine that Marion may have ended up reading 'the papers' is so she can see what she is up against, either because it might be the law to provide them to her, or her attorney felt it important for her to read them. I certainly would want to read them for myself, if it pertained to me.
>> 
>> Lynn
>> 
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>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
>> 
>> Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.”
>> 
>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
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>> From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 8:40 AM
>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] your ongoing prayers, please
>> 
>>> From: Roland Orr
>>> 
>>>> This is how US lawyers make money? and why there are so many of them ?
>>>> Who pays all the legal costs ?
>>> 
>>> Not necessarily. Some cases involve hourly rates, some are flat rate, some involve a percentage of the judgment.
>>> 
>>> In the U.S., if this involves a substantial amount of money, Marion would find a lawyer who'd take it for a percentage -- maybe 30% or so.
>>> 
>>> Don’t know about how these things get charged in Canada, but Marion receiving these papers directly leads me to believe she does not have a good lawyer.
>>> 
>>> Jim Guthrie
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