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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry if I missed this, OP, but what was your husband's savings before you got married?  And do you and your husband really only have about $200k saved up when your husband makes $400k a year and you have no kids?  That seems really low to me—and it suggests that your husband may not have been that careful with his money, which can go into the fairness evaluation.

I think you're underselling yourself.  You're talking about wanting 10%-30%, and IMO that's way too low if you're talking about the money earned during the marriage.  You should start with the idea that you're entitled to your half of the marital assets, then maybe add on a bit more for your husband being a dangerous drunk who crashes cars and, it sounds like, pisses away money.  How much of your combined income is gone now because your husband wasted it?  Is it "fair" that you take less because he wasted a lot of the money he earned?  Besides, you don't want to start out with too generous of a negotiating position, because it's only going to get worse from you from there.

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