That’s practical asset splitting!
I’ve heard of severing a property, but that’s ridiculous!
Er, hasn’t he heard that story about Solomon and the two mothers? If he really loved his house…
Man, did I misread the thread title. I thought it said he cut his SPOUSE in half.
And the really bad part is that I halfway laughed at the thought…
Whaddaya call that, a split-level?
A man’s half is his castle, but that’s just plumb crazy. The man’s got his wires crossed, he’s missing a few shingles, and he’s sawing with a dull blade.
I once represented a gentleman, a grain bin contractor, whose marriage went in the toilet. As part of the preliminary skirmishing his wife changed the locks on the house. My guy’s answer was to break out the good old Milwaukee saws-all and cut a new door. How he avoided hitting an electric cable and converting the estranged wife into a widow then and there I’ll never understand.
The cops showed up before he finished the job and packed him away for public intox and disturbing the peace. There was a restraining order in place before he sobered up and made bail.
Man. Thats unfair. She should have gotten her own chainsaw and done her half of the cutting.
No, no, no. The secret is to have one of them make the cut, and the other person choose the piece! Haven’t you been paying attention in the parenting tips thread? 
Several years ago, a woman who worked for me cut a boat in half under the same circumstances.
Hell hath no fury like a divorce!
Sounds like a plot in a bad sitcom.
Out of curiosity, would he have been OK had he not been blotto?
/Never understood why the GUY always had to go find a new place.
Because traditionally the wife had the kids and pretty much NO money of her own, and probably had’t ever held a job, or hadn’t held a job in at least the time span of the age of her oldest kid.
Who would you make move, the person with the kids who needs the space and has no income, or the person who can move into a small economical apartment for the duration of the negotiations?
I didn’t know I Love Lucy was so popular in Germany.
Injustice 1: The wife gets the kids
The kids obviously need the house more than whoever’s leaving, hence Injustice 2.
So, reading the German article, it wasn’t their house he cut in half, it was their (arguably over-constructed, from the picture) garden shed.
But I like the story better now.
Apparently, she graciously allowed him to have the shed. He, being a standup guy, apparently didn’t wan’t anything what wasn’t his’n - and only took his half.
(The furniture in the shed is his stuff, she doesn’t talk to him anymore and so put his sh*t in the shack.)
What impresses me is that after cutting it in half, he carted half of the building away, and didn’t leave any clutter.
This guy explains a lot about WWI and WWII.
When I saw the title, I thought it said HORSE, :smack:
First, he should be prosecuted for crimes against the donkey.
That, or a new Endermol “reality” show.
If I was a corporate executive with the chainsaw manufacturer, I’d be contacting both the soon-to-be exes to line up an endorsement deal – the guy, 'cause he did it, but the wife too, because presumably those were her photos of the event in progress.