Woman divorces man because all he wants to do is play video games

I have my first family law case, which I am doing pro bono so I can learn the ropes.

I asked my client why she wanted to divorce her husband. I guess it really doesn't matter, but I was curious.

She told me that she is divorcing her husband because all he wants to do is play video games.

Now, I have just received the Answer to my client's Complaint.

All the husband wants is his car, the TV, the TV stand, a fan, and his playstation. He is ok with the wife getting all the other furniture.

I mean, what an idiot.

He is losing his family, but he will be happy if he keeps his playstation.

 

That is just bizarre. It would be understandable if he was a PC gamer and built a monster rig for gaming like me. But for a playstation.......that is just crazy.

 

Just out of curiosity how old are you? How many relationships have you been in?

There are only two people that know what went on in that relationship. You have only heard your client's side. Maybe she is such a b in a relationship he just wants out. I assume since your client isn't paying you we aren't talking about the creme de la creme of society here. Personally I wouldn't get married if I couldn't afford a decent lawyer. There are alarm bells all around on this one. I don't understand how you can so casually assume you have all the facts and render a firm opinion about someone you have never met.

 

Could be a bit of it around. I had a client (I'm not a lawyer) recently who told me in passing that her husband was the same, sitting around all day playing video games. Still, at least he doesn't get drunk and belt her.

 

You didn't read what I said. The Answer came from him, not my client. All he wants is his TV, TV stand, playstation and a fan. He probably needs his fan to cool his fat ass off while he plays with his playstation. He is happy to let my client keep all the other furniture, so long as he can play with his playstation.

 

He told you what materials things he wants. He didn't tell you that what is most important was not having to deal with this woman anymore. You simply don't know what was going on. If you really are a lawyer I can't believe you would swallow this story and accept it as the gospel truth. Why do you even care? You are there to get the best deal you can for your client. Once that is gone move on? Are you in the habit of brooding about the motivations of advisories after you finish with cases? You are never going to know the full story and it is irrelevant.

 

Good for her. Take the bum to the cleaners and leave him there, with the bill.

 

Um, don't you think it would be a good idea to ask him about what she said? Couldn't she be, I don't know, lying or perhaps stretching the truth?

 

You are acting very emotional in your defense of this man so I think I scratched something and it hurts.

Is it possibly true that you have a wife or a girlfriend who has complained that you spend too much time playing video games?

Well, if that is the case I suggest you put down that controller, turn off the TV, and give your woman the sweet lovin' she needs.

Because some day, you may come home and find a note on the TV, telling you she has left you.

 

Why ask? He's not his client. If he isn't putting up a fight just go to court and get the judge to sign off and move on.

Blackrook is a lawyer with a lot of time on his hands. Man I am so busy at work once my goal is accomplished I have no time to think about the private lives of the every day joe blows I come in contact with. Finish the task and move on.

 

I'm not the judge so its not my job to weigh both sides of the story, it is my job to represent the interests of my client.

So I will believe my client until I have a reason to doubt her story.

Anyway, the reason my client is leaving her husband is not relevant. All she needs are "irreconcilable differences" and that does not need to be explained or defined.

 

Actually you have that backwards. I am level headed and told you that there may be an alternative story you didn't consider. More importantly I told you why even expend any energy thinking about it. Hardly what I would call "emotional." Your unsubstantiated outbursts are the "emotion" I was confused about and trying to extinguish.

 

I have definitely pissed you off but I don't know why. You are now insulting me, and I have given you no good reason. Anyway, if you don't care about your clients I don't think that makes you a good lawyer. So I fundamentally disagree with your philosophy.

 

He's making a point on it on PF. The info we have is what she's telling him. Wouldn't it better serve him better to make sure he wasn't making a fool of himself, by knowing that the husband was in fact a video game fanatic?

 

I am not the guy getting upset it is you. So far, you have insulted me while I have not insulted you back. You are the aggressor here, not I.

 

But I don't believe her. She has a bias here, and that's enough in my book to double check my sources.

 

Oh wow. You are pathetic. You're allegedly a lawyer? You have no idea who you are talking to. I went years without owning a TV and I haven't had cable television in years. I refuse to pay for TV. Boy if this is how you read me then I am definitely totally dismissing your evaluation of this other guy. Good luck in your career reading people as a savvy lawyer doing dinky family cases for free and brooding about them on the internet.

 

I have no reason to doubt my client's story. There are millions of men wasting their lives away playing video games, and many have lost their wives because of it. The story is entirely believable. And the fact that the husband specifically demanded the playstation makes it obvious where his priorities lie.

 

According to Blackrook this isn't an insult.

 

Yes there are people who play a lot of video games, but there's still a bias. You didn't double check. He could want the playstation for anything. Maybe he had a lot of friends online, and would have been his way to cope with a divorce.

 

You are a very emotional person and something I said has upset you deeply. I suggest you get professional help, because a grown man should not be so hostile and emotional in his dealings with others. You are like a bull in a china shop, and someone is going to get hurt.

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I have no duty to "double check" what my client tells me. I am not the judge, I am an advocate for my client. That means I believe her story until I find out she has been lying to me.

 

And you decided to tell us a story, without checking it out first. You didn't, and you didn't have to. Okay. But you check your sources. What if she was lying? It's your job to find the facts, and use them to make an argument.

 

Yeah. As Blackrook will learn one day a lot of the divvying up of stuff during a divorce is not about the stuff. The stuff is just a symbol or a tool. For example an executive might have a fancy sports car he only uses occasionally on the weekend. He is an upstanding tax paying working person who has an indulgence that is in no way interfering with his marriage. But in the divorce the wife may demand the car she formerly never cared about just to hurt the guy. Happens all the time. Or the wife asks for custody and Mr. "hanging out with the guys" will all of a sudden demand custody because "he wants to spend time with his kids." You see this crap all the time.

 

A grown man shouldn't get so emotionally involved with a non paying client that they spend their evening ranting on the internet about some adversary that didn't even put up a fight in court. Man if you are going to go on about some chip shot trailer park divorce proceeding what are you going to do when some real work comes across your desk?

 

Exactly. We don't know enough to say that the husband was a video game junkie. He could want it, just to get back at her for something that we don't know about.