{"id":4062,"date":"2013-08-21T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:12:26","slug":"divorce-settlement-for-pennies-on-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/divorce-settlement-for-pennies-on-the-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Settlement For Pennies On The Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9134\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jonathan-brinkhorst-45W2fOHWxYo-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9134\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jonathan-brinkhorst-45W2fOHWxYo-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jonathan-brinkhorst-45W2fOHWxYo-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jonathan-brinkhorst-45W2fOHWxYo-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jonathan-brinkhorst-45W2fOHWxYo-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jonathan-brinkhorst-45W2fOHWxYo-unsplash-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pennies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A husband&#8217;s ex-wife made a bold statement with her divorce and financial settlement. A judge ordered the ex-wife to pay $50.12 for her divorce and financial settlement. So how did she go about following the orders of the judge, you ask? The ex-wife paid her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/14\/ex-wife_n_3756626.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divorce and financial settlement<\/a> with pennies! That&#8217;s right, the husband received his settlement money in three plastic containers. However, the worst part is the total amount of pennies came to $47.12.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>The ex-wife used the $50.12 to purchase the three containers and included a receipt stating &#8220;The receipt is included if you want to return them&#8230;&#8221; And if that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, the ex-wife included a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/WTF\/comments\/1kaomi\/so_my_divorced_finalized_last_week_the_courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">goodbye letter<\/a> to add some salt to the already opened wound posted on Reddit.com by the husband.<\/p>\n<p>So if you were going through a divorce and financial settlement with your ex-spouse, how would you feel if you received your settlement money and it was all pennies? Would you make a laugh out of the situation or would you knock over the container of pennies in frustration?<\/p>\n<p>If I was the ex-husband going through this divorce and financial settlement battle, it would be more frustrating to me to turn the $47.12 into cash <em>and<\/em> take the plastic containers back to the store for a refund. Actually, I would save the containers for something useful like storage. I mean, those containers are pretty deep and think of it this way&#8230;&#8221;It&#8217;s a nice going- away present.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A husband&#8217;s ex-wife made a bold statement with her divorce and financial settlement. A judge ordered the ex-wife to pay $50.12 for her divorce and financial settlement. So how did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1701,1702,1698,1699,1700],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settlements","tag-alimony","tag-divorce-alimony","tag-divorce-and-financial-settlement","tag-divorces","tag-divorcing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}