My stbxnh has commited perjury (provable) more than 95 times, violated court orders numerous times, falsified documents, & colluded with his sister in doing all of these things to try to cheat me out of anything that he can.  The most important thing, but not a legal matter anymore (since she's now 18) is that he took my daughter from me and she now won't have anything to do with me.

 

After my lawyer sent me a spreadsheet of Major Assets & Obligations and said that we were very close to a settlement, I went a little ballistic.  After I spent a few hours calming down, I wrote him back that it wasn't right that after everything that he has done, things that we have proof of, how can he say that we should just say, OK, now it's time to split the assets and obligations?  I want him to pay for everything that he has done.  I met with my lawyer (figure that it cost me about $800 to talk to him for a little over two hours--no wonder he's got a nice Porsche).  Well, he proceeds to explain to me why that won't happen.  To be found in contempt of court and/or guilty of perjury, the fee paid goes to the court, not to me.  They will not put him in jail because the jails are too full, and by law, they have to have separate jail facilities for civil offenders, which they don't, so he won't get jail time.  The only thing that might possibly happen is that he might get a sanction by means of having to pay for my attorney's fees. 

 

So, he takes my daughter, buys a million-dollar house, quits his job and then lies about where he is working so as not to have to pay as much support, tried to cheat me out of assets that we owned together, etc., etc., etc., and he gets away scott free. 

 

Just wanted you to know that if you're looking for justice in your divorce, you're not going to get it.  I wish I had known that.  I wouldn't have done things differently, but at least I wouldn't have had a false perception that he would be made to pay.  They will not be made to pay.  There is no justice in the divorce court.

 

Guess we just have to work as hard as we can to get what is ours, and hope that the justice is meted out after death.