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Eric the Mauve posted:Pretty likely that (at least in OP's opinion) his wife is making the money disappear and it's a prominent reason he wants a divorce, but he probably isn't going to say so in this thread, especially if he's done the only sensible thing and hired a lawyer by now Yeah, I feel like this from the OP: quote:This was sort of a bleeding-staunching method to try and put a cap on our (and by "our" I mostly mean "her") out of control spending. makes it pretty clear why a divorce is happening and/or necessary without needing to go into the details. OP, your biggest priority should be getting a divorce lawyer. Your second-biggest priority should be not getting hosed over by her divorce lawyer. The rest of it is so dependent on the results of the divorce that I honestly can't see how you'd get a reasonable estimate of your necessary expenses. I mean, what's a worst-case scenario, anyways? You lose all your assets, you're 20k more in the hole (because you got half of the credit-card debt in the divorce and your wife has secret credit cards, and also lawyer fees) on top of your student debt, you're paying the max alimony indefinitely, and you're paying the maximum amount of child support and only get weekend visits so you need to maintain a room for your kid to sleep in? And you lose your housing (it goes to the wife) and now you have to rent a new place? There's so many outlandish worst-case possibilities that someone without more knowledge of the details has no way of guessing what a realistic one would be for you. If anything, practice your self-control and monitor your discretionary spending for a while and try to get a measure of how much you spend on eating out and other unnecessary expenses? Try to keep aware of when you get the impulse to purchase something and keep track of how often that is/how much you'd normally spend?
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