Oh, she tried to take the house even though I bought it before we were married and her name was no where on anything concerning it. She did, however, get away with pretty much anything and everything worth anything in the house. She had the mentality that she bought everything and it was all hers. I was actually surprised to find all sorts of things left in the mess since, in mediation, she only agreed to leave my original bed, my original flat screen, an old side table that my grandmother handed down, and a handful of the appliances. Like I said, it's drama filled! Now I'm concentrating on getting my house and life back in order and moving past her bull$#!+. I'm waiting for the day karma finally delivers what she's due, my only regret is I most likely won't find out about it since we really don't have any common friends - but then again, I kinda don't care either! She's gone for good, thankfully, and that's really what's important!
And you're spot on about the court system! I mean seriously!! She produced a picture of her with a black eye from like 2 or 3 years prior (it wasn't from me hitting her) and used that as evidence. Then she enlisted her then-17 year old daughter to corroborate her lie saying how I tried to run her over with the Mustang that night, I chased her into the house, she tried to lock herself in the bathroom and I fought with her over the door so hard that the daughter heard the door cracking through her closed bedroom door, then I yelled and screamed at her and threatened her before I left the house for work. They both told the same identical lie, down to the cracking door. Then I produced the voice recording that I started after she stormed off from screaming at me while I was in my car. I posted a while back how I was in an accident in 2015 and it smashed my right heel and my right foot had to be reconstructed, so if someone were to just walk fast, I can't keep up, so there's a little bit of time from when I started the recording to when I finally caught up to her and asked her what she was talking about. There was no bathroom door involved! In fact, she was in our bedroom. More of her screaming ensued. As I was trying to leave the house is when she yelled that she would mark herself to prove that I hit her, then you can hear right before I back down the driveway she yells that she wants HER money. The judge listened to all of that and STILL upheld the TPO, ordered me to go through family violence classes, I couldn't return to my home for 1 year following the TPO OR until the divorce was finalized, AND I had to maintain all of the household bills while she got off scot-free. The judge basically left me homeless for a year with no bargaining chip to use in mediation because the poor defenseless woman cried wolf. Needless to say I'm slightly jaded about the whole ordeal and have no faith in our court systems much less almost any female's motive any more. There's only so much a guy can take and I think my limit has been exceeded.