Chapter 6: Hotels.com: The Smoking Gun

The Virgin Mobile subpoena was initially unsuccessful. They required both the credit card information (which we had) and the phone number (which we didn’t). The subpoenas to Victoria’s Secret, Jewelry by Alex and other retailers were equally disappointing. We did get some useful information from the PayPal subpoena, which indicated Scott had used two emails

Chapter 6: Lessons Learned

I. Researching Phone Numbers He Has Called Whether or not your husband has a hidden phone, a time may come when you start to wonder whether there is more than one woman, or even a prostitute habit. As a result, you may want to research all of the phone numbers he has called on either

Chapter 7: Managing the Emotional Rollercoaster

Our couples’ therapist, in the two plus years we saw him before Scott and I separated, was at best ineffectual. At worst, he was harmful to me personally. I did not feel safe in our therapy sessions. The two of them often tag teamed to practice INDIVIDUAL therapy on me. Of course Scott now deemed

Chapter 7: Lessons Learned

Even in the best of circumstances, going through a divorce is a gut-wrenching process filled with uncertainty about how it will impact your kids, how you will end up financially and who you will be as a single person. The uncertainty can turn the most confident and decisive person into a totally different beast. Some of

Chapter 8: Birthday Benders

My lawyers asked if I could write vignettes about Scott’s behavior – snapshots of what he was doing at particular points in time. They thought this would be helpful in preparing their deposition and trial questions – for both him and me. I thought it was a great idea. It would serve the additional purpose

Chapter 8: Lessons Learned

To prove your spouse has been unfaithful, you have collected and analyzed your records and subpoenaed documents. When the information indicates extensive spending in a variety of places (and even on a variety of women), you may feel overwhelmed by all the details. How do you weave them together into stories explaining his pattern of

Chapter 9: Why Didn’t I Think of That?

Scott’s credit card records made clear he had paid for memberships to quite a few dating websites, particularly sites where men were searching for sugar babies, mistresses and hookups. I didn’t search for his profiles on those websites while we were collecting evidence, however. In part, I assumed they would be too hard to find.

Chapter 9: Lessons Learned

Sleuthing to find your husband’s dating profiles requires a bit of creativity and a lot of trial and error. A critical step is finding the first profile. Once you have found it, you can begin google searching the pieces of the profile, iteratively unearthing more and more of the puzzle. I. Methods for Discovering Dating Profiles

Chapter 10: The Fifth Amendment

The first day of Scott’s multi-day deposition was December 2, 2013, about eleven months after we had filed for divorce. It didn’t take my attorney long to begin asking Scott about all of the women, some of whom Scott knew we would be asking about. They had been on our witness list, which we were

Chapter 10: Lessons Learned

If your spouse’s bad behavior will be addressed in his deposition, your attorney needs hard proof to back up the infidelity questions. This was especially true for me because of Scott’s history of compulsive and pervasive lying. We were certain he would not admit to anything unless irrefutable evidence was staring him in the face.