Dixie Chicks new song - Gaslighter

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Anonymous wrote:I love the Dixie chicks but not keen on this song. Don't air your dirty marriage laundry when you have young kids.

I don't believe Maines claims that her net worth is 4M. It may not be the 50M that he is claiming but she has to be worth more than 4M. She has a 23K/month mortgage. You don't do that on a network of 4M.

He likely doesn't deserve 40K in spousal support but he should get some alimony and child support just the same as if genders were reversed.

How you know that??

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Sounds like he cheated on her? Creep.

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Anonymous wrote:I love the Dixie chicks but not keen on this song. Don't air your dirty marriage laundry when you have young kids.

I don't believe Maines claims that her net worth is 4M. It may not be the 50M that he is claiming but she has to be worth more than 4M. She has a 23K/month mortgage. You don't do that on a network of 4M.

He likely doesn't deserve 40K in spousal support but he should get some alimony and child support just the same as if genders were reversed.

How you know that??

It was in the reports that were released about their court battle over money. Allegedly. I didn't actually read the reports, just the reporting of what was in the reports!

I googled it but can't find what I originally saw. I mis-remembered her net worth - she says 6.5M not 4M. Here is an article with the same number

"The Dixie Chicks singer says she currently has $4,476,258 in real and personal property, $121,205 in stocks/bonds and $1,943,452 in cash and checking accounts for a grand total of $6,540,915.

Maines lists her current average monthly income as zero, saying she did not tour last year and "is not touring in 2019." She says her income has been substantially reduced while not on tour.

In the documents, Natalie Maines lists her monthly expenses, including $23k on her mortgage, $3k on repairs, $3,249 for groceries/eating out, $2,291 on entertainment, $694 on clothes, $416 on charity... and a grand total of monthly expenses at $49,767."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like he cheated on her? Creep.

I didn't get that from the song. Did you see that somewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the Dixie chicks but not keen on this song. Don't air your dirty marriage laundry when you have young kids.

I don't believe Maines claims that her net worth is 4M. It may not be the 50M that he is claiming but she has to be worth more than 4M. She has a 23K/month mortgage. You don't do that on a network of 4M.

He likely doesn't deserve 40K in spousal support but he should get some alimony and child support just the same as if genders were reversed.

You do if you over-extend yourself. And at the time she and he were making equal money. Her career and albums took off post-2000 while he stayed a sometimes supporting actor.

She also owns or owned pre-divorce 3 homes, not just one. 1 in LA, 1 in Austin, and 1 in NYC.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like he cheated on her? Creep.

It sounded like he wanted the divorce. Maybe she cheated?

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Anonymous wrote:I love the Dixie chicks but not keen on this song. Don't air your dirty marriage laundry when you have young kids.

I don't believe Maines claims that her net worth is 4M. It may not be the 50M that he is claiming but she has to be worth more than 4M. She has a 23K/month mortgage. You don't do that on a network of 4M.

He likely doesn't deserve 40K in spousal support but he should get some alimony and child support just the same as if genders were reversed.

How you know that??

It was in the reports that were released about their court battle over money. Allegedly. I didn't actually read the reports, just the reporting of what was in the reports!

I googled it but can't find what I originally saw. I mis-remembered her net worth - she says 6.5M not 4M. Here is an article with the same number

"The Dixie Chicks singer says she currently has $4,476,258 in real and personal property, $121,205 in stocks/bonds and $1,943,452 in cash and checking accounts for a grand total of $6,540,915.

Maines lists her current average monthly income as zero, saying she did not tour last year and "is not touring in 2019." She says her income has been substantially reduced while not on tour.

In the documents, Natalie Maines lists her monthly expenses, including $23k on her mortgage, $3k on repairs, $3,249 for groceries/eating out, $2,291 on entertainment, $694 on clothes, $416 on charity... and a grand total of monthly expenses at $49,767."

That is extremely stingy charitable giving for someone with her wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like he cheated on her? Creep.

I didn't get that from the song. Did you see that somewhere?

The song says something about she knows what he did on her boat and he can go off with his own someone new?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the Dixie chicks but not keen on this song. Don't air your dirty marriage laundry when you have young kids.

I don't believe Maines claims that her net worth is 4M. It may not be the 50M that he is claiming but she has to be worth more than 4M. She has a 23K/month mortgage. You don't do that on a network of 4M.

He likely doesn't deserve 40K in spousal support but he should get some alimony and child support just the same as if genders were reversed.

Agreed.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like he cheated on her? Creep.

I didn't get that from the song. Did you see that somewhere?

The song says something about she knows what he did on her boat and he can go off with his own someone new?

They have been divorced for two years so I took it as the someone new was just the next girlfriend...

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The shade! I love it!

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Anonymous wrote:Natalie Maines' ex seems like a total pr*ck.

Why? Because he asked for support? If he'd been a woman and they'd been married 17 years (like they were), ya'll would be saying he's owed that and more.

Not if he'd been a woman that signed a prenup saying otherwise. It's not like he was at home managing the house and children behind the scenes. He had his own career, she was just better at hers.

Women try to get around prenups ALL the time. He just used the same tactic. You support outrageous child support and maintainence ence levels for one type of spouse - you have to do it for both.

Child support is one thing--the kids should have the same lifestyle they had before. But he wanted $45k extra in spousal support, which he did not get because he signed a valid prenup. I dont support "outrageous" maintenance levels for anybody in a divorce.

Sounds like he did exactly what you said a SAHM does. He raised the children, saw them off to school, made sure their meals were made, and put them to bed while Natalie was making music, touring, and fighting the establishment.

At the time, he claimed he sacrificed his professional career to focus on the former couple's children while Maines toured and made music.

At one point, the kids came on tour with them. And their son played at some of the DCX shows. He just sounds like a jerk. He wasn't manipulated into a prenup. They're both professional entertainers with potential to make big bucks. He made an agreement with full capacity to understand it, and then went back on what he agreed to. Destroys his credibility.

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Anonymous wrote:Natalie Maines' ex seems like a total pr*ck.

Why? Because he asked for support? If he'd been a woman and they'd been married 17 years (like they were), ya'll would be saying he's owed that and more.

Not if he'd been a woman that signed a prenup saying otherwise. It's not like he was at home managing the house and children behind the scenes. He had his own career, she was just better at hers.

Women try to get around prenups ALL the time. He just used the same tactic. You support outrageous child support and maintainence ence levels for one type of spouse - you have to do it for both.

Child support is one thing--the kids should have the same lifestyle they had before. But he wanted $45k extra in spousal support, which he did not get because he signed a valid prenup. I dont support "outrageous" maintenance levels for anybody in a divorce.

Sounds like he did exactly what you said a SAHM does. He raised the children, saw them off to school, made sure their meals were made, and put them to bed while Natalie was making music, touring, and fighting the establishment.

At the time, he claimed he sacrificed his professional career to focus on the former couple's children while Maines toured and made music.

At one point, the kids came on tour with them. And their son played at some of the DCX shows. He just sounds like a jerk. He wasn't manipulated into a prenup. They're both professional entertainers with potential to make big bucks. He made an agreement with full capacity to understand it, and then went back on what he agreed to. Destroys his credibility.

The same can be said of a woman with a law degree or a nurse or a pet washer who decided to get married, had kids, and 'suddenly' doesn't want to work for 5-10 years. She went back on her agreement to work and provide an income for herself -- so why should she then benefit from the largesse of the working spouse in a divorce?

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Anonymous wrote:Natalie Maines' ex seems like a total pr*ck.

Why? Because he asked for support? If he'd been a woman and they'd been married 17 years (like they were), ya'll would be saying he's owed that and more.

Not if he'd been a woman that signed a prenup saying otherwise. It's not like he was at home managing the house and children behind the scenes. He had his own career, she was just better at hers.

Women try to get around prenups ALL the time. He just used the same tactic. You support outrageous child support and maintainence ence levels for one type of spouse - you have to do it for both.

Child support is one thing--the kids should have the same lifestyle they had before. But he wanted $45k extra in spousal support, which he did not get because he signed a valid prenup. I dont support "outrageous" maintenance levels for anybody in a divorce.

Sounds like he did exactly what you said a SAHM does. He raised the children, saw them off to school, made sure their meals were made, and put them to bed while Natalie was making music, touring, and fighting the establishment.

At the time, he claimed he sacrificed his professional career to focus on the former couple's children while Maines toured and made music.

At one point, the kids came on tour with them. And their son played at some of the DCX shows. He just sounds like a jerk. He wasn't manipulated into a prenup. They're both professional entertainers with potential to make big bucks. He made an agreement with full capacity to understand it, and then went back on what he agreed to. Destroys his credibility.

This is an interesting perspective. If I understand you correctly, you believe that if a woman who has potential to make good money (maybe she was lawyer) makes a personal choice to stay at home or follow her husband's career - then she shouldn't be entitled to any alimony or child support. I am sure many others agree with you. The courts generally don't.

The court awarded him 350,000 in legal fees that she had to pay so there was something to the case he brought forward. I am not sure it was ever disclosed what the final ruling was in terms of alimony / child support she needed to pay.

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Anonymous wrote:I love the Dixie chicks but not keen on this song. Don't air your dirty marriage laundry when you have young kids.

I don't believe Maines claims that her net worth is 4M. It may not be the 50M that he is claiming but she has to be worth more than 4M. She has a 23K/month mortgage. You don't do that on a network of 4M.

He likely doesn't deserve 40K in spousal support but he should get some alimony and child support just the same as if genders were reversed.

Agreed.

I agree also. What's that saying - best revenge is a life well lived? This is kind of pathetic, which makes me sad because I like the DC's.