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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were living in the house that they bought with two incomes, but relying on hers alone. In addition to not wanting the divorce to become at-fault, she may simply have lacked the funds to add a rental to her financial burden. From her perspective, the end was in sight. While he has accusations of sexual assault, there were no incidents of physical violence that she reported to police. She did not appear to have a case to get a protective order. She may not have felt fear of physical harm, or she felt uneasy but had no documented incidents to use to make a case to keep him away from her and her children.

Clearly, from the outside in hindsight we see the signs of fatal violence at the end of a relationship. But there are lots of deadbeat men who don’t kill their wives over a divorce. 
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I’m sure that was part of it and maybe she had other motives. But this was clearly a spiraling and dysfunctional situation regardless of how it ended. Having been through this and seeing my friends navigate the situation (and also reading DCUM posts about it) the lesson I think women need to hear is that at some point you need to prioritize getting out and establishing one stable home for yourself and your children. [b]The money doesn’t matter. [/b][/quote]

But the money does matter. Because women trying to get out are in a catch-22. If you can't show you can provide a stable home for your kids, that matters for custody too.

Unless and until this country realizes what family court does to women in these situations, it won't get better. And study after study on this issue shows that family court is awful to women in these situations. Ironically one of the premier places where studies on this topic are done is Georgetown Law.[/quote]

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