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Divorce is never pretty, but it can sometimes be downright ugly. Emotions are high, and each party usually stands to lose something significant in a divorce. These ten dirty divorce tricks are used by a lot of people ending a marriage, but they usually don’t result in anything positive for either side.

1) Serving Papers with the Intent to Embarrass

You’re angry with your spouse, and you want to humiliate him or her. So, you arrange for the divorce papers to be served at work when you know your spouse will be in an important meeting. Or, you have them served at a happy family gathering.
This may feel temporarily satisfactory, but don’t be surprised if your spouse retaliates in an equally publicly humiliating way.

2) Taking Everything

While your spouse is at work or on a business trip, you clean out the house. Your spouse returns to an empty home. You feel vindicated because after all, your spouse was a horrible person to live with. Unfortunately, this move will likely only provoke an equal or bigger reaction from your spouse.
Be prepared for war if you try to boot your spouse out of the house while he or she is away.

3)Canceling Credit Cards

You’re finishing up a meal at a restaurant with your friend, and you go to pay the bill with the same card you always use. The waiter soon returns with the dreaded word “Declined.” Your spouse pulled a dirty trick and canceled all your credit cards without your knowledge. Now you’re left with no way to pay.
Not only is this kind of conduct bad form, in Monroe County it is prohibited by the Monroe County Standing Restraining Order, which automatically goes into effect once a divorce petition is filed. Cancelling credit cards or engaging in similarly prohibited conduct in Monroe County can result in the offending spouse being sanctioned by the Court.

4) Clearing Our Your Bank Accounts

The marriage is over, and you’re furious at the many ways your spouse has wronged you. So, you go to the bank and completely clean out all joint bank accounts. Feels good, right? Especially when you think about the look on your spouse’s face when he or she realizes what you’ve done.
However, this could reflect poorly on you when a judge determines you’ve stepped out of bounds. If you’re truly worried your spouse will financially ruin you, don’t clean out the bank accounts. Instead, have your family law attorney walk you through the appropriate steps to protect yourself financially.

5) Starving Out the Other Spouse

You’re the partner who supports the family, and you begin to withhold the money and resources needed by the other partner. You refuse to pay the electricity bill, leave nothing for groceries, and won’t cover the kids’ medical expenses. This is done so that your spouse will be placed in a desperate financial situation where he or she might accept an unfair settlement.

6) Refusing to Cooperate

Refusing to speak to your spouse about anything, especially about arrangements with the kids, makes cooperation impossible and causes stress for your children. Pettiness doesn’t help anything, but it does incite anger on both sides, which leads to sabotage in other ways. If you can’t speak civilly with your spouse, let your family law attorney intervene.

7) Jeopardizing Employment

When a marriage is ending on the worst terms, sometimes a spouse will just want to hurt their partner, no matter the consequences. This desire can extend to trying to jeopardize a spouse’s employment by providing negative information about a spouse to their boss or coworkers.
The problem with this is it can ultimately hurt the offending spouse, as spousal and child support can be affected by a lack of employment.

8)Meddling in an Affair

When a marriage ends because of an affair, it makes perfect sense that the jilted partner would want to damage the relationship of the spouse and lover. Calling the spouse of your spouse’s lover to inform him or her of the affair might even seem like the right thing to do.
However, the temporary satisfaction someone receives from this is not worth the potential repercussions. If you think it’s important that the affair also be revealed to the other spouse, let your Austin divorce lawyer handle it. Otherwise, it almost always ends badly.

9) Skipping Town With the Kids

When your marriage is falling apart, getting away from it all for a while may seem like a good idea, especially if you have kids. Taking your kids out of state may seem like the best way to really stick it to your spouse, but it can backfire and result in you losing primary custody or having your visitation supervised when the behavior is brought before a judge.

10) Filing False Accusations of Child Abuse

You don’t want your spouse to have custody of the kids, so you do everything you can to discredit him or her including making accusations of child abuse.
However, stretching normal occurrences in an effort to make your spouse look like an abusive monster will backfire on you. If your child is truly in danger, seek professional help immediately.

Need a Great Divorce Attorney?

When you’re going through a divorce, you’ll encounter situations you didn’t even realize could exist. To protect yourself, you want the best divorce attorney on your side. Michael Scibetta is an experienced local divorce attorney in Monroe and surrounding counties who will help ensure the best possible outcome for you in your divorce case.

Give us a call at 585-232-2770.

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Massive Change Immediately on Sunday for New York State The New York State law is going to be changed just in time. On Tuesday night, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul changed the law so that people will be ready just in time for Sunday.

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The Skills a Good Trial Lawyer Will Have

Most litigators specialize in an area of practice they’re most familiar with, whether that’s criminal codes for criminal litigators, property codes for insurance litigators, or commercial codes for business litigators. However, trial lawyers require a set of skills that transcend these codes.

These skills include:

Understanding how to pick jurors who will be sympathetic to their client’s cause.

Skillfully questioning witnesses in court to extract favorable evidence.

Eliciting key information from their own witnesses to strengthen their case.

Crafting persuasive opening and closing arguments.

An ability to think on their feet, deploying improvisational strategies as situations in the courtroom evolve.

Thriving under adversarial pressure, keeping a cool head when facing tough opposition.

Moreover, trial lawyers need to be well-versed in the ‘rules of the game,’ which are the practices that govern how a trial is conducted. These are not necessarily written in any legal code but are crucial to successfully trying a case.

Some trial lawyers are also litigators, but the skills required of a trial lawyer are relatively rare in the legal community.

Hundreds honor Sgt. Thomas Sanfratello's life at memorial Batavia. N.Y. — Family, friends, and hundreds of law enforcement officers fromo across the country laid Sergeant Thomas Sanfratello to rest on Saturday.

Well kids…in this week’s edition of Isn’t the Law Funny:

Jell-O Shots Banned in New York State Jello-O shots at bars could be a thing of the past. Jell-O shots are a party favorite. You pour your favorite vodka in some jello mix, let them sit, and there you have it--a classic.

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