I had a fifteen year marraige, but it took three more years to actually get through the court system. So the judge considered this to be an eighteen year marriage. We didn't live together during the separation, since I bought her a 5,000 square foot house, at my lawyer's suggestion, so she wouldn't "suffer" too much while we waited. The judge was a woman, and the subsequent judge when I went for a revision was also a woman. When I went back to court, my wife actually claimed that she was now making $30,000 per year. In the second decision, the judge specifically stated that she considered this extra $30,000 to be such a minimal amount as to be irrelevant. (I suspect my ex is now making considerably more, but if I go back again, I risk an increase, since I am also making more.)
Regarding unconstitutional stipulations, here's another little factoid that this judge stipulated. I had, as I said, created and funded trust funds for all three of my children. I have two sons and one daughter. The judge actually required that I change the trustee of my daughter's trust fund to my ex. wife in direct violation of what I think is federal law, but compared to the rest of the order, this was the least of my problems. I guess she decided that men should handle boy's funds and women should handle girl's funds, or maybe I might raid my daughter's trust fund, but that I wouldn't raid my sons.' Pretty ridiculous, since I was the one who set these funds up in the first place.
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