I just did that calculator, I don't want to leave my wife, but looking at that I'm just going to have to take an L and stay if things get bad.
I got 4 kids with her. If I can't get full custody I'm going to have to move to mexico.
My co worker, let his wife be stay at home way past when their kid was little, she rode the whole "going to school" thing for close to a decade.
This man had been working for this company 25 years, pension, 401k, stock options. Paid all the bills.
She starts being distant and listening to and hang with her school friends.
She decides she's unhappy being married to him after all this time, while having
NOTHING of her own.
They go to court..... HALF. (in my eddie murphy voice).
Half his 401 he spent 25 years stacking (lump sum, literally went in his account and took 150k)
Half his pension (If he ever gets to draw from it)
She got to keep the house (which he had to keep paying for during the year the divorce took)
Child Support (Their son also gets a SSI check)
And spousal support
My man been grinding all his life, and at 50 had to move in with his brother family.
He walked away with his car and his clothes, and couldn't afford to have a place by himself.
I hate it had to be him..