>>1331756>>1334436Several years ago, an uncle of mine got divorced. His wife told him that because he has diabetes, she didn't want to look after him when she was old, and she was having an affair with a new man she now loved, etc, etc. She was a single mother when HE proposed to her 20 years ago...
In order to pay out/pay off his bitch of an ex-wife (I can honestly say I never liked her), he was forced into selling off the 15 acre plot with the house they loved on, which HE had got a mortgage for. It was about half paid off by then. He is a carpenter, but also raised chickens and turkeys for, made a profit.
Lucky for him, it wasn't hard to find a buyer because the area was near an expanding suburb to the southeast and gaining in value ever since he bought it (and being a carpenter, he vastly improved the house). Developers will pay in suitcases of cash to gobble up parcels for expected resale/development in the next decade or two. (That part is kind of sad)
That took care of the mortgage, but the majority that was left went to the ex-wife and for alimony. He was still short on what he owed. It forced my my then 90 year old grandmother (still alive) had to sell her house (planning to anyway), and gave him 1/3 as "early inheritance".
He eventually had enough to get a more rural/remote but small plot, just a few acres, renovated the small house, and does well there now.
>best part?A few years later, out of the blue, the ex-wife was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and died pretty quickly thereafter.
>tl;drjust desserts
