What the hell. I want nothing to do with my husband's lawsuit. I got served today by HCBM from her attorney to be deposed. I'm so annoyed. Anyone go through this??
No clue what her reason is. I have nothing to hide so they can ask me whatever but like...why? Oh and they had me served today and it was right in front of my kids. Ridiculous.
I'd be a stressed out mess, but it's not like this is going to help BM's case - it will help your DH's case if anything. So maybe look at it that way? If she's going to ask how much he's spending on your kids, etc, she's not going to get the answers she's hoping for.
All of it was an attempt to discredit a stable, crime free, thriving home in comparison to bm's life. Her life is the Polar opposite and they knew/know it.
Family Court needs to be reformed. Drama and chaos drives the train to churn these cases, years and years.
When you say everything like everything that had to do with the custody case or everything like personal questions about you and your kids (if you have them?) I mean they can't ask me about my finances and I'm not giving any information about my kids. They are minors and deserve privacy. I'm so livid I can't even begin to explain.
you do not have to answer her questions. if you don't want to answer them "my atty has advised me that I do not need to answer your questions as this matter does not involve or concern me"
If it were me I would have my lawyer seek a protective order to quash the deposition notice. Then the person seeking it has to disclose what information they are seeking and why.
Agreed. My husband is going to fight this. He's pissed. We know this is all just a way for her to try and get personal information about me to abuse him with. She is sick and a bully and is trying everything in her power to try and make him look bad and she's failing miserably. So, she is moving onto the next thing. Which is me. We are going to fight it. I already gave an affidavit. DH makes a much much higher salary then me so yes he has spent money on me and my kids. This takes nothing away from his though. He pays his child support, he pays for everything he is responsible for. So, she can go sit down. She's so jealous is repulsive! She wants ALL of his money to go towards her kids and nothing for us. That is just not how he works. He's very generous and will go without just to make sure we have everything and that includes his kids. She is pissed because he put a limit on her spending money on their kids. She wants him to pay hundreds and thousands on sports, extra curriculars ect.. but she wants to pay zero and he can't sornd ANY money on us or she will say he can't pay for things for their kids because he's paying for things for us (which it's really not much. I do make money) it's just so petty and gross. She is literally nasty and disgusting.
Well, here is her point of view: When they divorced, he agreed to pay for everything for the kids. That worked for her! She liked that. Then you came along and now he doesn't want to pay for every little thing for the kids. That doesn't work for her. She assumes it's because you are in the picture, eating up the money that is rightfully hers (in her head). In a sense, she's right - he didn't try to change the agreement with her until you came along, though he's doing it for the right reasons.
Yes, he can spend money on you - but she's trying to show that him saying "I can't afford those other activities" is not true, and it's because the money is going to you and your kids.
Not justifying it, just explaining it. In my experience, money issues are cut and dry - you owe X amount based on salary and that's that. But maybe since he's been paying for so long, she hopes to establish a precedent that he CAN pay more, and SHOULD.
Yeah we were 2 years into our relationship when he started fighting her and it had zero to do with me and spending money on me. She started over scheduling them, she was claiming them on taxes so for two years he was paying over 10K on taxes and he started struggling financially because of HER not me. But even so, I don't think any judge is going to go through every cent he has spent on us vs. his kids and declare he should be spending more on them. We are already over paying. Not only that. When he agreed, she was making zero. Now she is making 125K a year. But she still wants him to pay 100% while she goes on vacations to Key West, buying new laptops, buying all sorts of expensive stuff then she's going to say what? She can't afford to contribute to anything because that's what he originally agreed to right after they separated when he was in a bad place because she cheated on him? She's a complete idiot. They are both very financially capable of taking care of their kids, giving to us takes absolutely NOTHING away from her kids. If DH doesn't agree to something? She absolutely can pay for it herself, no problem! So what's her argument? That she just doesn't like that he buys us anything? He can't buy us a single thing and every cent should go to her even though we have been over paying child support for two years? That's completely stupid.
I agree with you, but I'm not an attorney - I don't know if him paying for everything for years means he has set the precedent that it should continue that way, and maybe she's trying to prove that.
Well he hasn't been just paying her. He has been saying for two years that it's too much and she just started signing them up for things that he didn't agree to and she just said "fine, I will just pay for it" so for all of 2019 and 2020 she paid for stuff and didn't ask did reimbursement but now she's saying he owes her money because he should have paid for these things and well...it's just a mess!!
It was to keep me out of the courtroom during trial. As a witness, I couldn't enter the courtroom unless called to testify, which I never was. It was yet another attempt on HCBM's part to isolate DH from people who care about him--and another attempt to make herself look good.
That was the same round of court when she tried to have the judge recuse herself because I worked for the municipality in which the case was heard. Unfortunately for her, I worked for the municipality, but judges are employed by the state, so there was ZERO connection.
Personally, I would love to sit through a deposition with HCBM's attorney. I'd bring mine, of course, who could use it as an intelligence gathering opportunity.
No. She makes six figures a year and completely capable to pay her attorney fees. She just doesn't like that he spends a dime on us. She feels all his money should go to their kids and zero to us and if he pays anything? Oh look out!!! She is on the war path. She is so jealous is absolutely disgusting.
as you have no meaningful information to contribute. If it were me, I would hire my own laywer and have them file the motion to quash your deposition. If the deposition goes forward then your attorney will be present to protect your interests. He/She will be able to object to questions asked and can coach you on your answers.
When BM tried to do this to me I hared my own attorney who in a few short sentences had the issue dismissed. Basically he told the judge that if I was going to be named I was entitled to full parenting rights (which my state doesn't aknowledge steps). BM threw fit in court and the judge threw it out, but not before my attorney also stated that we would be seeking compensation for my attorney fees and missed work. The compensation has been hanging open for 2 years now but BM has not harrassed me (at leeast not through court) since. She always has some illness or death in the family the day before court. It is almost funny to watch. My state has a law that allow a person to seek compensation against someone who is using the courts to harrass them. Check it out. Yours may too. It's pretty common from what my attorney told me.
They would drive a hearing date then back out at the last minute due to some bullshit excuse after my then GF had flown in from out of State for the hearing from where she was attending university. Eventually we were able to nail them down and stop the never ending rescheduling or cancelation cycle. Though.... the AM of our first actual court hearing the Judge requested that we postpone due to a murder trial that he wanted to preside over. Our attorney presented all of the repeated postponement crap from the opposition including the associated travel and legal costs the eternal delay tactic had cost my then starving college student DW of less than two weeks.
The Judge was irritated that we would not accept a postponement without reimbursement of travel and legal costs with penalties and interest from the SpermClan. He did not like that I pushed that.
So, we spent the day in court, won soundly, and never again let the SpermClan maintain any control over court action or schedule. The Judge was not happy about missing a murder trial, but... meh
The witness-spouse is the one who holds the testimony advantage. It is entirely up to you whether or not you testify. As I understand it as a legal layman.
You can refuse any request for deposition from the BM and her attorney. Work with you attorney to implement the sequence of responses that runs up BM's legal bills while not sharing shit.
In our initial court hearing about 2 wks after we married the SpermClan's idiot attorney tried to paint a picture of us cohabitating prior to marriage with the toddler SS in the mix. The only answer I provided was "I own my own home, she had her own apartment. We moved in together after we married. BTW.... neither of us are statutory rapists unlike (SpermIdiot)" He would try to shift the wording, both DW and I pretty much said the same thing over and over again repeatedly. Even when the Judge demanded that we focus on the question of cohabitation rather than the fact that the SpermIdiot was a serial statutory rapist. "Neither of us has perpotrated statutory rape or cohabitated out of wedlock." The SpermClan's heads would explode along with the head of their attorney, the Judge wold turn purple, and even our attorney was irritated by our repeated reference to the SpermIdiots statutory rape career when answering questions on cohabitation.
You may be able to play this notably to your advantage. Work with your attorney, your DH, and his attorney on using this opportuntiy to back BM more firmly into a corner if possible.
Talk to your lawyer.
Talk to your lawyer.
We are! I'm just wondering if
We are! I'm just wondering if this is common? Or if anyone has been through this.
I haven't. Thankfully BM did
I haven't. Thankfully BM did not target me in this way. I don't know if I could have stayed.
Me
Me
What is Bm's reason?
Sorry about this.
No clue what her reason is. I
No clue what her reason is. I have nothing to hide so they can ask me whatever but like...why? Oh and they had me served today and it was right in front of my kids. Ridiculous.
I'd be a stressed out mess,
I'd be a stressed out mess, but it's not like this is going to help BM's case - it will help your DH's case if anything. So maybe look at it that way? If she's going to ask how much he's spending on your kids, etc, she's not going to get the answers she's hoping for.
She already asked this in
She already asked this in discovery. She's so jealous!! It's so gross.
Thumper- what did they ask? I
Thumper- what did they ask? I am so curious an why BM's attorney would subpeona "the new wife"!
Not a single clue.
Not a single clue.
Everything.
Everything.
All of it was an attempt to discredit a stable, crime free, thriving home in comparison to bm's life. Her life is the Polar opposite and they knew/know it.
Family Court needs to be reformed. Drama and chaos drives the train to churn these cases, years and years.
When you say everything like
When you say everything like everything that had to do with the custody case or everything like personal questions about you and your kids (if you have them?) I mean they can't ask me about my finances and I'm not giving any information about my kids. They are minors and deserve privacy. I'm so livid I can't even begin to explain.
refuse
you do not have to answer her questions. if you don't want to answer them "my atty has advised me that I do not need to answer your questions as this matter does not involve or concern me"
Depends on the state
If it were me I would have my lawyer seek a protective order to quash the deposition notice. Then the person seeking it has to disclose what information they are seeking and why.
Agreed. My husband is going
Agreed. My husband is going to fight this. He's pissed. We know this is all just a way for her to try and get personal information about me to abuse him with. She is sick and a bully and is trying everything in her power to try and make him look bad and she's failing miserably. So, she is moving onto the next thing. Which is me. We are going to fight it. I already gave an affidavit. DH makes a much much higher salary then me so yes he has spent money on me and my kids. This takes nothing away from his though. He pays his child support, he pays for everything he is responsible for. So, she can go sit down. She's so jealous is repulsive! She wants ALL of his money to go towards her kids and nothing for us. That is just not how he works. He's very generous and will go without just to make sure we have everything and that includes his kids. She is pissed because he put a limit on her spending money on their kids. She wants him to pay hundreds and thousands on sports, extra curriculars ect.. but she wants to pay zero and he can't sornd ANY money on us or she will say he can't pay for things for their kids because he's paying for things for us (which it's really not much. I do make money) it's just so petty and gross. She is literally nasty and disgusting.
Well, here is her point of
Well, here is her point of view: When they divorced, he agreed to pay for everything for the kids. That worked for her! She liked that. Then you came along and now he doesn't want to pay for every little thing for the kids. That doesn't work for her. She assumes it's because you are in the picture, eating up the money that is rightfully hers (in her head). In a sense, she's right - he didn't try to change the agreement with her until you came along, though he's doing it for the right reasons.
Yes, he can spend money on you - but she's trying to show that him saying "I can't afford those other activities" is not true, and it's because the money is going to you and your kids.
Not justifying it, just explaining it. In my experience, money issues are cut and dry - you owe X amount based on salary and that's that. But maybe since he's been paying for so long, she hopes to establish a precedent that he CAN pay more, and SHOULD.
Yeah we were 2 years into our
Yeah we were 2 years into our relationship when he started fighting her and it had zero to do with me and spending money on me. She started over scheduling them, she was claiming them on taxes so for two years he was paying over 10K on taxes and he started struggling financially because of HER not me. But even so, I don't think any judge is going to go through every cent he has spent on us vs. his kids and declare he should be spending more on them. We are already over paying. Not only that. When he agreed, she was making zero. Now she is making 125K a year. But she still wants him to pay 100% while she goes on vacations to Key West, buying new laptops, buying all sorts of expensive stuff then she's going to say what? She can't afford to contribute to anything because that's what he originally agreed to right after they separated when he was in a bad place because she cheated on him? She's a complete idiot. They are both very financially capable of taking care of their kids, giving to us takes absolutely NOTHING away from her kids. If DH doesn't agree to something? She absolutely can pay for it herself, no problem! So what's her argument? That she just doesn't like that he buys us anything? He can't buy us a single thing and every cent should go to her even though we have been over paying child support for two years? That's completely stupid.
I agree with you, but I'm not
I agree with you, but I'm not an attorney - I don't know if him paying for everything for years means he has set the precedent that it should continue that way, and maybe she's trying to prove that.
Well he hasn't been just
Well he hasn't been just paying her. He has been saying for two years that it's too much and she just started signing them up for things that he didn't agree to and she just said "fine, I will just pay for it" so for all of 2019 and 2020 she paid for stuff and didn't ask did reimbursement but now she's saying he owes her money because he should have paid for these things and well...it's just a mess!!
I was subpoenaed to our last go-round in court
It was to keep me out of the courtroom during trial. As a witness, I couldn't enter the courtroom unless called to testify, which I never was. It was yet another attempt on HCBM's part to isolate DH from people who care about him--and another attempt to make herself look good.
That was the same round of court when she tried to have the judge recuse herself because I worked for the municipality in which the case was heard. Unfortunately for her, I worked for the municipality, but judges are employed by the state, so there was ZERO connection.
Personally, I would love to sit through a deposition with HCBM's attorney. I'd bring mine, of course, who could use it as an intelligence gathering opportunity.
Is DH paying for her lawyer?
Is DH paying for her lawyer? Our BM tried to run up the bills.
It's time for DH to go on the offensive. One sport at a time per kid, written in the CO.
No. She makes six figures a
No. She makes six figures a year and completely capable to pay her attorney fees. She just doesn't like that he spends a dime on us. She feels all his money should go to their kids and zero to us and if he pays anything? Oh look out!!! She is on the war path. She is so jealous is absolutely disgusting.
Say, "I don't recell" 1000
Say, "I don't recall" 1000 times.
I was going to say this- also
I was going to say this- also, "I am just the new wife, I don't know" or "I am just the stepmom, I'm not sure"
They are going to question
They are going to question myself as a mother to upset me. This I am sure of.
Dh's lawyer should be able to file a motion to quash
as you have no meaningful information to contribute. If it were me, I would hire my own laywer and have them file the motion to quash your deposition. If the deposition goes forward then your attorney will be present to protect your interests. He/She will be able to object to questions asked and can coach you on your answers.
Been there
When BM tried to do this to me I hared my own attorney who in a few short sentences had the issue dismissed. Basically he told the judge that if I was going to be named I was entitled to full parenting rights (which my state doesn't aknowledge steps). BM threw fit in court and the judge threw it out, but not before my attorney also stated that we would be seeking compensation for my attorney fees and missed work. The compensation has been hanging open for 2 years now but BM has not harrassed me (at leeast not through court) since. She always has some illness or death in the family the day before court. It is almost funny to watch. My state has a law that allow a person to seek compensation against someone who is using the courts to harrass them. Check it out. Yours may too. It's pretty common from what my attorney told me.
The SpermClan did the same thing during the early court battle.
They would drive a hearing date then back out at the last minute due to some bullshit excuse after my then GF had flown in from out of State for the hearing from where she was attending university. Eventually we were able to nail them down and stop the never ending rescheduling or cancelation cycle. Though.... the AM of our first actual court hearing the Judge requested that we postpone due to a murder trial that he wanted to preside over. Our attorney presented all of the repeated postponement crap from the opposition including the associated travel and legal costs the eternal delay tactic had cost my then starving college student DW of less than two weeks.
The Judge was irritated that we would not accept a postponement without reimbursement of travel and legal costs with penalties and interest from the SpermClan. He did not like that I pushed that.
So, we spent the day in court, won soundly, and never again let the SpermClan maintain any control over court action or schedule. The Judge was not happy about missing a murder trial, but... meh
The witness-spouse is the one
The witness-spouse is the one who holds the testimony advantage. It is entirely up to you whether or not you testify. As I understand it as a legal layman.
You can refuse any request for deposition from the BM and her attorney. Work with you attorney to implement the sequence of responses that runs up BM's legal bills while not sharing shit.
In our initial court hearing about 2 wks after we married the SpermClan's idiot attorney tried to paint a picture of us cohabitating prior to marriage with the toddler SS in the mix. The only answer I provided was "I own my own home, she had her own apartment. We moved in together after we married. BTW.... neither of us are statutory rapists unlike (SpermIdiot)" He would try to shift the wording, both DW and I pretty much said the same thing over and over again repeatedly. Even when the Judge demanded that we focus on the question of cohabitation rather than the fact that the SpermIdiot was a serial statutory rapist. "Neither of us has perpotrated statutory rape or cohabitated out of wedlock." The SpermClan's heads would explode along with the head of their attorney, the Judge wold turn purple, and even our attorney was irritated by our repeated reference to the SpermIdiots statutory rape career when answering questions on cohabitation.
You may be able to play this notably to your advantage. Work with your attorney, your DH, and his attorney on using this opportuntiy to back BM more firmly into a corner if possible.
I would.
Good luck.