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Court Hearings 2002 Patricia filed for Divorce in February of 2002. Between her filing and our Final Decree in December of 2004 we averaged a hearing a month. We spent time in Family Court, Domestic Violence, Civil, Bankruptcy and finally Criminal. The majority of hearings were recorded and are public record. November 15, 2002 Part 2 The second half of the trial dealt with matters of property. I do not know, whenever we argue about things, I feel petty. What proved important to me were the heirlooms – my grandmothers’ china, the children’s possessions, family pictures and videos etc… When I went into settlement negotiation I had no idea what Dr. Zieman would recommend as far as custody and timesharing. This decision proved one of the stupidest actions in my entire life. I assumed that Patricia would get the majority of timeshare with the children and that my parental responsibility was to provide a home for my children. For this reason, I made a very generous settlement offer; into six digits more then Patricia’s half of the community. But not too generous. I offered to make the house payments for two years in which time if Patricia did not get the hose refinanced in her name, I would get the house back. I knew that was little chance that she could do this. Like the custody issues, the property settlement fell apart before it could be implemented. Without being on the mortgage or title, Patricia ‘sold’ the house via a real estate wraparound deal. This meant that I kept paying the mortgage while Patricia collected a down payment and monthly payments from the ‘buyers’. For over sixth months I paid the mortgage on a home that none of the family, to include Patricia lived in. Many of the children’s and mine’s personal possession remained in the house during this period. Patricia made a brilliant performance as the poor victim of my theft. The truth is a little different. In February of 2002, I left the family home for a period of separation, Patricia had promised me and the children that she would not file for divorce. I did not take a lot to include the much talked about hard top for my car. I did take the antique coffee box in which many of the family heirlooms were stored. Patricia had a nasty habit of destroying stuff and I decided to take that. I told Patricia this and she did not object. It was only later we realized that some of her personal items were in there. All of these I eventually returned. The same can not be said for Patricia. Many items simply disappeared. There is a standard order issued when a couple files for divorce, the Temporary Domestic Order or TDO. This is a standard form, three pages long, which outlines how the community is to proceed until the Court starts deciding things. The original TDO in the court records is three pages with one page two sided. The copy served on me was missing the backside. Coincidently, this is the section that covers my right to arrange to enter the community home and remove personal items. My attorney’s never informed me of this right and Patricia refused to allow me to pick up my items, or even the children’s items once they came to live with me. The items we did recover, we recovered after they had been left on the back porch for the six months strangers lived in the home or after Patricia’s arrest.
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