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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think women tend to divorce husbands who are duds 
Men tend to divorce wives before a large windfall. Inheritance, stock options , a large promotion . It’s very known phenomenon to divorce lawyers - men riding high kn their careers at the expense of wife raising their kids, only to dump her for a newer model when he achieves career prime.

My friends husband approached her with a postnup request after 2 kids together who years marriage . His biotech company was about to go public. She didn’t sign and he divorced her. Now lives with a 20-years younger woman unmarried, they just had a baby
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But isn't child support and spousal support dynamic . In other words if your pay goes up so do those payments. Do people actually find ways to avoid this?[/quote]

Assets are split 50/50 from the time of filing.

Income is not split. Alimony is often for a very limited amount of time if you get any at all. For example, I am currently in the divorce proceedings. I am a SAHP and have been for 11 years. In my state the standard is that years of alimony will not exceed 33% of the years of marriage if we go to trial, which we probably will if STBX gets his way. Child support in my state also tops out at a certain maximum on state mandated tables, so it is left to judges’ discretion once income exceeds $12k/month. So I will likely get alimony for a maximum of ~3 years and child support for an unknown amount of money. Both child support and alimony adjust with income. However, like many people with massive compensation, a large portion of my STBX’s future comp is going to come from deferred compensation, and he is carefully scrambling to structure it around my alimony timeline, while I’m carefully structuring my settlement demands to capture as much of the deferred compensation as I can to protect DC’s future. [/quote]

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