just when you think it's getting better.

[mzteris]

2. You know what really ticks me off

he cries to the boys about how all of his check goes to "child support", but a third of it comes back to his house to his live-in girlfriend.

He wants all the "alimony" he paid me to be credited as child support as he never intended any of it to be spousal support. I think I'm gonna tell the judge, okay, but we have to redo our taxes for the last four years as he claimed the credit and I paid the tax on that money. Otherwise he'd be guilty of tax fraud. . . that will shut him up. The last thing he wants is to get audited!

I doubt we'll get that far. He'll try to represent himself. I'll get a lawyer - I think a tall very strongwilled woman this time - just to push his buttons - and he'll lose it in the courtroom.

The only reason I'm willing to settle "out of court" is I don't want to divulge how much I make now. It's none of his damn business - I just got very very lucky. Otherwise, I'd either STILL be unemployed or making not very much after being a stay-at-home for so long. (Thus the alimony in the first place - he was working, I wasn't.)