Suddenly, being single doesn't seem so bad after all...

Angelica Martinez is the Latine Editorial Lead at BuzzFeed and covers a little bit of everything, from quizzes and true crime to celebrities and pop culture.

Warning: This post contains mentions of animal death, murder, and other potentially triggering topics. Please proceed with caution, and above all else, take care of yourself!

"He glued the TV remote to the table, the phone to its cradle, the couch pillows to the couch, and even glued the vacuum cleaner to the carpet. She called the police and reported this as property damage. The police went with her through the house documenting dozens of items glued to various things, but for days she was discovering random things, and she would call to amend or update her report. 'My goddamn oven mitts were glued to the wall!' or 'He glued the effing sheets together in the linen closet!'

I've seen people do and say really awful things to each other, but that was diabolical."

"The cleaning schedule and crews would sporadically change. The firm’s lease also happened to end during the divorce representation, and we were given a notice to vacate in the middle of the winter holidays. After our departure, the husband put up signage of his company on the outside of the building where our offices used to be located."

"Even after everything else had been decided, they spent many more months and nearly $100,000 fighting over just this ashtray. Then, after a court hearing, the wife finally won it. She promptly strode out to the white courthouse steps...and smashed the ceramic ashtray. Left the pieces all over for the husband to see on his way out.

I decided that day I would not be a divorce lawyer."

"The first red flag was that he had changed the locks. So we waited for the locksmith to arrive and change the locks again. Well, when the door opened...we saw that all of the furniture was gone. We carefully went upstairs in search of her cats, and the entire second floor was empty, too. No cats, no furniture. Even her clothes were gone. 

As it turns out, he hired a moving company to pack and take everything, even the food in the fridge. We finally found the cats. He had taken them to another vet in town and put them up for boarding under his sister's name, thinking she would not be able to find them. He was finally forced to disclose what happened to her possessions. He had them taken to a storage unit far away from the home."

"Before he could say anything, he saw the cops suddenly swarm the guy and pin him to the ground. While everyone watched on, thinking this guy was 'helping,' he actually was stabbing his wife repeatedly with a screwdriver. She unfortunately didn't survive.

Pretty sure that was the last divorce case our family friend took."

"Sad part is, she was not well and had been in and out of psych wards over the years. I hope she’s getting the help she needs now!"

"After exposing the therapist, she loses her license, and mom wins custody. While mom and kids were out to dinner, dad and the therapist torched mom’s house.

It was still ongoing, but I quit and never heard anything else about it. I hope mom and kids are healing and doing well."

"It was only during their divorce proceedings, as she attempted to go back to college (he hadn't allowed her to during their marriage), that this was discovered due to her applying for financial aid. FWIW, the IRS wasn't even surprised, as apparently this happens more often than anyone realizes. They ended up going after him, as she had kept copies of their joint returns.

The whole thing was so damn petty and mean, we were all floored by it."

"Her ex told the kids, 'If mommy loves you, she’ll let you keep the cat since daddy is not allowed cats at his house.'"

"Turns out that my mom and the 'family friend' actually conspired to rip my dad off and make it seem like that’s what a divorce settlement looks like. And she was going to kick back more money under the table after the dust had settled. Dad just didn’t know how these things worked. So, after some convincing, he finally went out and got his own lawyer. He got a very fair divorce settlement after that.

Mom still to this day can’t understand why we don’t talk to her much."

"It turned out that while his income had been lowered due to 'cuts', his new wife — who technically worked as his 'assistant' (and had done so prior to the divorce) — was now making quadruple her salary, more than he ever had.

He claimed that his ex-wife had 'unpaid renters' living with her and could have money to survive if she charged them rent. It turned out they were the couple's shared 18-year-old twins who were living at home, having just graduated high school, and were going to keep living at home while starting college in the fall. 

He claimed that his ex-wife worked as a nanny for free by choice and should be getting paid for work elsewhere. The kids she watched for free were their three joint grandchildren from their eldest child, two of whom were severely disabled.

He claimed that when he married his new wife, he gained over fifteen new dependents, which was technically true, but those dependents were all in Mexico and included his new wife's grown siblings and their families, none of whom he had ever met.

This dude was shocked when spousal support wasn't decreased."

"Anyway, he still had all of his assets, so he would drive to work in a super expensive car, and one day an employee asked how he could possibly afford that car. The guy said he was set for life and didn't even need to work at all, but every Friday when he got his paycheck, it made everything so worth it knowing his ex-wife would only be getting about $150 per check."

"They had a crew ready. He ran over to the house. His ex-wife had every water fixture running, every light on, etc. She apparently had been doing this for at least a month, just running up the bills to be a real asshole."

"She then forged a bunch of letters from a tax authority and convinced him he was about to go to jail, and further convinced him to flee the country. He finally came back several years later to find that everything he owned was in her name, and that one of the documents he was told to sign turned out to be divorce papers.

Dude got left with nothing. I moved on before I found out how the story ended."

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