Chapter 24 - Property does not care who was crueler
Our marital home had equity.
We divided it under negotiated settlement after valuation and legal advice.
I retained the house after refinancing my share of obligations.
Aloysius received an offset from other marital assets.
Retirement divided appropriately.
His lost Redwood bonus was not treated as though I had stolen it from him.
It never vested.
No court ordered me to compensate him for the job he lost because of his own conduct.
His existing deferred compensation was valued separately.
No alimony after negotiated settlement because both of us had meaningful earning capacity and property distribution.
Child support calculated under applicable income rules, adjusted as his employment changed.
Boring.
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Necessary.
Divorce is often accounting performed over grief.
