Paying ex husband with his own money
I recently went through a challenging divorce with my aggressive and mean ex-husband. He insisted on receiving over 500 euros per month as a pension from me, even though I was the one staying with the kids after the split. In Germany, where we live, the rule is that the higher-earning spouse pays support to the other for at least on year. He told me he would "be fired" of his job just to make my life miserable, asked make me pay. Almost no one that has a job files for it, but the decided to make me pay.
I gave him a letter of separation. 670
After one year separated, you may file for divorce.
However, I discovered a clever way to navigate this situation. Knowing that the date of filing for divorce determines the division of assets, I withdrew half of the money from our investments just after the separation, as he started talking about his pension, before filing for divorce. This reduced the amount of money available for division. And guess what? I used that money to fulfill his pension demands.
He was always only spending money and never took care to realize how much money we really had there. That, together with his awful memory, and a very long divorce process, allowed me to comply paying the unfair pension (because he quit his job only to make me suffer, in his own words) with his own money. 119