7 Divorce Lawyers Share The Craziest Things They’ve Ever Seen

“I was representing the wife of a couple in their early forties, who had been married for about 15 years. The wife suspected that her husband was cheating and found a bunch of charges on their credit cards for trips to Vegas, Colorado, and Mexico (plane, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, spas). When she asked him whom he was traveling with, he said he was going alone. At first, she chalked it up to his being ‘eccentric.’ But the charges got increasingly huge, and he was depleting their accounts. Then there was a line item on the credit card statement from Planned Parenthood. He said he was going there to buy condoms. She filed for divorce. 

“During the discovery period, I found his 20-year-old girlfriend’s Facebook page. It was public, so I could see the photos she’d posted and places where she’d ‘checked in’—all of which corresponded with the travel expenses from the husband’s credit card statements. Turns out, the affair had been going on for two years. When I questioned her about the Planned Parenthood charge, she said the husband had paid for her abortion. The one charge the mistress didn’t know about was at a Las Vegas brothel, where the husband paid $10,000 to rent out their ‘Pirates of the Caribbean Room’ for the night. The girlfriend didn’t know about the wife either, and she broke up with him—even though she was pregnant with his child and was keeping it this time (another thing I discovered on Facebook. She’d posted a picture and announced her due date). In the end, the wife got custody of the kids, with the husband paying child support (for his wife’s kids and, I later found out, for his girlfriend’s kid, too).” —Chicago family law attourney Mitchell B. Gordon

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