There was a commercial for IIRC laundry detergent where a similar scenario was portrayed. It didn’t air for very long. :rolleyes:
My dad is a retired firefighter, and he had plenty of stories about the things his co-workers found when they went home sick in the middle of their 24-hour shifts.
Hey, TruCelt, what if your dad wasn’t cheating and step-mom found your suit and jumped to the wrong conclusion?
Or did dad fess up?
The way I understood it, TrueCelt and her stepmother both found out after **TrueCelt **went looking for her swimsuit and learned that her dad threw it away.
I knew a guy that did two tours in Vietnam as a marine infantryman. He was a really smart guy, went on to become a successful accountant. He came back from one tour and had a lot of money from gambling, and found his wife getting plowed by some guy. He told me he briefly considered killing them both, but instead slapped a $100 bill on the guy’s back and told him to go get himself a real piece of ass and left.
A friend of mine’s Dad a high ranking military officer was eating at a restaurant with his family and went out to the car to look for something and found in the glove compartment some compromising photos and loveletters, they got divorced afterward. The shitty part? His wife was the one that cheated but he has to pay her half his military retirement for LIFE!!!
This reminds me of a story Jay Leno related in his autobiography. He had come back from a road trip (comedy standup) and dumped his laundry on the bed . . . and then as he sorted the clothes for washing, he discovered a pair of black lace panties, not his wife’s, in the mix.
Now, I should pause to say that Leno was completely innocent: he had had no dalliances with any black-panty-wearing ladies. But he was also very confident that explaining to his wife, “Yes, honey, there was a pair of panties in the laundry, and they came from my suitcase, but I swear, I have no idea how they got there!” was not a conversation he wanted to start.
So like a guilty man, he stuffed the panties in his pocket, snuck outside, and threw them away, hidden inside a empty motor oil can.
And then a couple of days later, Mavis (his wife) says to him, “Jay, did you happen to see a pair of black lace panties on the bed? I got them as a gag gift at so-and-so’s bridal shower and now I can’t find them anywhere.”
“Uh… no, not that I recall. Black panties? Nope!”
The law in many states works that way. Each spouse “earns” half of the other’s retirement. A divorce, regardless of cause, doesn’t erase the “earnings” to date. It does stop any future accrual.
In the case you’re talking about if, e.g., they’d been married 15 of his 20 year career, she’d get 1/2 of 15/20ths of his retirement.
Read Qualified domestic relations order - Wikipedia for more.
The other side of the “no-reason divorce on demand” coin is it becomes “no fault even when there is fault”
Late add of Part 2:
I know a guy who was legally separated from his wife, but they both foot-dragged on finalizing the divorce mostly due to his out-of-sight-out-of-mind attitude & her utter flakiness. Meantime they lived halfway across the country from each other and never communicated.
Several years later she became pregnant by some random dude she never saw again. Under the law of her residence state my friend was legally the child’s father and legally responsible to pay child support until the kid was 18. Even if they finished the divorce before the kid was born. Yup: pay for his adulterous separated wife’s adulterous child.
Moral of the story: Don’t marry a crappy person. And if you discover you did, end it ASAP. It only gets more expensive later.
Jesus, ** Chef**, that’s the “feel-good” story of the year, right there.