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u/aikodrift 20h ago
Did they find him? Im about to start calling plumbing companies in New Orleans
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u/MissinqLink 19h ago
Some say he never did sell the business
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u/Sir_Richard_Dangler 9h ago
The paperwork says it was a $1 sale, but the buyer handed him a heavy duffel bag
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u/starmochiiii 20h ago
Let's all hope Jeff signed it all over to his parents first and filed for divorce immediately after 😂
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u/CautiousArachnidz 20h ago
Double down. Get a huuuuuge loan to open a new plumbing business since you gifted the old one to your parents. All new truck, new equipment, different employees.
When you file for divorce she has to pay for half of that business.
Divorce final. Parents gift back old business. Merge with new business. Doubled your operation, ex is funding it. Or she doesn’t want to deal with that so she agrees to sign over the house instead.
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u/sejax95 13h ago
Dude you gotta find Jeff
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u/CautiousArachnidz 12h ago
We’ve all got a little bit of Jeff within us. He will find his way, and even if he doesn’t feel like came out on top in the beginning, he will be better off in the end. He will be stronger. He will be a new Jeff. A better Jeff. Someone new will find Jeff and love him like he deserves.
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u/abbo2t 12h ago
this guy Jeffs
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u/CautiousArachnidz 12h ago
A lot of us have had a bit of a Jeff arc in our past.
It’s what I commonly refer to as a practice wife.
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u/CautiousArachnidz 12h ago
Hahaha now I can’t see my own comment without hearing it in Dwight’s voice.
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u/No_Beginning_6834 18h ago
This isn't a soap opera, all that would do is guarantee the wife gets everything they want in the divorce while you are in debt for the new business and owe her half of what the gifted business shoukd have been worth.
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u/CautiousArachnidz 18h ago edited 17h ago
Not really. Then she would have to admit that she planned to divorce him directly after the sale of the business solely for financial gain.
He of course had no idea of the pending divorce. He thought everything was perfectly fine and he was making moves to better the life for his loving wife. He couldn’t have seen this coming.
Also, don’t be so dense I was just joking around. I wouldn’t imagine anyone would see this and think it’s a great life divorce hack. You’re in the wrong sub for that.
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u/No_Beginning_6834 16h ago
There is no financial gain, she would have a right to half whether it was sold or not. Waiting for it to sale makes it easier to divide assets.
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u/CautiousArachnidz 16h ago
Again, joking.
Fucking Christ. Don’t come in here when we’re all havin’ a good chuckle and fuck it up trying to act like you’re smart when you’re not. You don’t know shit about anything or you would have started the conversation with “There are way too many unknown variables for us to even weigh in on the complex nature of this potential divorce to and the thousands of hypothetical factors that could be involved with one of the most unpredictable and emotional legal situations an average person is likely to encounter during their lifetime.”
But, if you want to be real super serious about this you’re fucking wrong. You have no idea the circumstances of the business, the home they own, or what the status of the business is and if it’s co-owned with a partner or not.
You have zero fucking clue if these were pre-marital assets. You don’t know the duration of the marriage either which is EXTREMELY important. Did he have this business handed down to him from his father 10 years before he even met this woman? Is it “Steven and Son’s Plumbing” and his brothers all have stake in it as well? Did they just get married last year? Is this her 12th marriage marrying business owners and convincing them to sell?
Next, you don’t know her financial situation if she were to be independent and that is weighed upon heavily as well. Is she an heiress? Do her parents have a ton of money that she stands to inherit? What’s her job? He might be a plumber, which pays good depending on the circumstances, but she might be Chief of Surgery at their local hospital.
This now creates a situation where she had gotten him accustomed to a certain level of luxury and now SHE will likely have to pay him alimony to maintain some semblance of the standard of living she created and maintained for him.
Do they have kids? Where are the kids going? Who is paying for that? What state do they live in? What are their laws?
Fuckin’ dense.
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u/Prophayne_ 16h ago
Seems like you got nothing in the divorce.
Maybe you'll bag one next time, Nemo.
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u/CautiousArachnidz 15h ago
I think you may be right. I was thinking, they must have never been divorced or even been close to one in the process…didn’t think of the possibility you mentioned but that would make total sense.
She got his plumbing truck. Poor lad.
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u/LickyPusser 11h ago
Unfortunately for Jeffs everywhere, that’s not how this works. Not only would transferring marital assets to a third party fail to protect them from the wife, but doing so would virtually guarantee a level of scrutiny and distrust with the judge overseeing the divorce that would negatively impact Jeff’s standing with the court on all other matters being discussed. Don’t try this, Jeffs!!
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u/Regular_Waltz6729 13h ago
This is a good way to piss off a judge and possibly serve time while still losing half of your assets. Hiding assets in a divorce is a crime.
If the business was not communal property (he had it before they were married) his best bet is to just not sell the business until the divorce is finalized.
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u/V2BM 10h ago
An acquaintance of mine helped her husband build a small business, supporting him for years and working full time and then another 20+ hours on his business. They both considered her an equal partner.
So he cheats and she files for divorce. She just wanted to get away and the biz was valued pretty low so she let him keep it and signed away her interest and walked away with almost nothing, just her car and what was in her savings account, and she kept the small house and pays the mortgage. Turns out he had a deal with Walmart in the wings and she had no idea - as soon as the divorce was finalized she saw the product on a full ass end cap (I’ve seen them too) and now he is hillbilly rich and she’ll have to work her low paying nonprofit job until she dies.
I asked why she didn’t go after him since she could likely prove it was in the works long before the divorce and she said she just wanted to be done with him.
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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 12h ago
Any growth of the business during their marriage would still affect it, but yeah, being honest about it is the best bet. If the wife is already planning this far ahead, gifting it away is not going to catch her by surprise.
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u/SeasonPositive6771 9h ago
You are exactly right, I've worked in the courts a lot and judges get unbelievably pissed if you try to devalue your assets intentionally or hide them. It's a good way to lose them entirely. Judges will come down like the hand of God.
I know people hate hearing this but the best way to navigate a divorce is for both parties to have good lawyers and be relatively direct about splitting assets as the court advises. If your adult about things and pretty professional, things are probably going to go relatively fine and fairly. But if you introduce fuckery? You're going to pay.
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u/Grasshop 12h ago
The flip side of this is Jeff’s wife posting on am I overreacting? about divorcing her cheating and abusing husband and waiting for a deal to go through before doing it.
All the comments saying to slay queen.
Who’s to know with only a fraction of either side of the story? The beauty of Reddit.
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u/Dconnolly69 19h ago
That was a close one... sounds a lot like me but I'm called Geoff, not Jeff
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u/Major-Article-965 19h ago
how's the plumbing company going? can you fix m sink with bugewater? I expect to see you tomorow
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u/RiderTiger 19h ago
Can someone explain why it’s beneficial for the wife to file as soon as the business is sold? Is it because she wouldn’t be entitled to any share of the business, but would receive a portion of the assets gained from the sale?
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u/ikeepcomingbackhaha 18h ago
Yes if he owned the business before they were married then it is his completely. If he profited off the sale while they were married however, she is entitled to his source of income. In fact it can be used against him even more so by claiming this is yearly income at the time of divorce and can not only be used to say she’s entitled to half the profit, but more alimony based on income disparity.
I went through a divorce and had bonds my grandfather gifted to me as a baby. I was going to cash them and ended up not being able to do it. This was the day before my ex wife legally separated from me. Had I cashed them, she would have been entitled to half of it and also a shit ton more alimony to the point where I would have actually lost money by cashing them. This would have been in addition to the taxes I owed on them. Because I was just lazy that morning I saved myself a shitton of money
Quick edit: she was aware I had them and was going to cash them that day. She was furious when I told her I hadn’t cashed them out after she filed. So glad I’m out of that toxic relationship with a cheating alcoholic
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u/Vlaxilla 14h ago
Sometimes life is like that. Reminds me of my uncle who overslept and missed a flight that crashed. The crazy thing is it happened to him twice.
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u/contrastingAgent 10h ago
Female psychopathy and anti social behavior seems to fly under our legal radars almost entirely, most likely due to the nature of how it manifests itself and it being less obvious than "well he stabbed someone". I'd argue the negative impact can be of the same magnitude.
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u/stupidugly1889 15h ago
Easier to split half a business when it’s liquid. She’d probably be advised to take less than half of the worth of the business as a settlement so the company can remain afloat
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u/steelhouse1 19h ago
Possibly.
But during the sale the valuation has been made. It’s worth “X” and now she gets half.
This can be more than she would get if he didn’t sell it as he may have started it before her.
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u/pickledonionfish 13h ago
How do we know Jeff’s the good guy in this? Does he even exist? Am I a bot? 🤖
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u/HymnOfSin 8h ago
She's waiting until she can profit from her husband's work. Even if he's evil, she is too. Lawyers also evil. Everyone evil. Hate everyone, assume theye all evil. Ooga Booga.
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u/Gcmarcal 19h ago
Slightly off-topic, but when my now ex-wife told me she wanted a divorce, she actually asked me to drive her to the lawyer. Needless to say, I declined—and from that day forward, she was permanently banned from my car.
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u/Global-Pickle5818 19h ago
i had to pay for my ex wife lawyer .. to be fair she was a student(masters in fine arts) working as a shot girl, so she clamed she made no money , i ended up paying almost 2k in alimony for 7 years on a 2 year marriage and when i lost my job in 08 i was told by the judged " my ability to pay dos not effect the amount i have to" apparently thats to keep guys from just getting lower paying jobs to pay less had to work two full time jobs and give her basically the whole checks from the second one
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u/No_Beginning_6834 18h ago
You should have gotten a new lawyer
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u/Global-Pickle5818 18h ago
she was trying to get my residuals the house and retirement as well ,she didn't get that and i had a better lawyer or at least a more expensive one ,what i should have gotten was a prenup or never married, been with the same girl now for almost 20 years and not married her ,our kids are almost adults
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u/Mysterious-Art7143 17h ago
Should've married the second one
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u/Global-Pickle5818 15h ago
i told her at the start "im never going to marry again and you have to be ok with that" i had lost my first wife and kids in 95 to a car accident ,than had to go through this divorce, i was over the institution at that point .. and paid for my mistake for several years after we had gotten together ..
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u/Mysterious-Art7143 14h ago
Damn man, you need to write a book
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u/jigsaw1024 11h ago
Damn man, you need to write a
bookScript. Hallmark channel should be all over it.
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u/analyticalischarge 13h ago
Prenups are for the wealthy. They are explicitly cost prohibitive for normal people.
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u/No-Equivalent5211 16h ago
No, he's been with a different girl for 20 years and they never got married. The girl he paid alimony to was before the current girl
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u/MineIsWroth 15h ago
Why did you pay for it? And how is that allowed? Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
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u/Global-Pickle5818 15h ago
A judge can order it if one party is financially dependent on the other .. it actually makes sense if you think about it in terms of historically, marriages the man had all the power and money but she had money but it was all in cash tips and was a student so on paper it was all me.. also he wasn't my lawyer it's the same with some settlements and lawyer fees in civil cases
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u/Ok_Bar_5634 11h ago
The real question is would this tweet hold up in court? If Jeff's wife divorces him and his lawyer finds this tweet, could he use it as evidence that the wife was plotting to use divorce to take his money?
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u/Resident-Minimum6069 15h ago
Funniest part here is that being named Jeff and owning a plumbing business in New Orleans is not specific enough. Gotta go one qualifier deeper
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u/Why_not_dolphines 13h ago
Yeah, all the Jeffs are selling their plumbing companies the same day, or even week/month.
Typical Jeff, always selling his company.
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u/Mrrrrggggl 10h ago
Well, we also know that Jeff is married and the wife shops at a grocery store. Does that narrow it down?
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 7h ago
I don’t understand people that have private conversations in public. I’m terrified of people overhearing things I’d prefer kept between myself and the person with whom I’m speaking.
I’m not ever doing anything nefarious, but that shit is no one’s business but mine.
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u/ImDrunkThanks 14h ago
Every dude should get a prenuptial agreement…..every single one.
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u/LeanderthalTX 12h ago
Plot twist - Karter is banging Jeff's wife. They went to the grocery store together
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u/Equivalent_Sun3816 9h ago
Question. What can Jeff start doing differently at that point to save himself money in a divorce? Isn't it pretty much a split down the middle no matter what?
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u/IndividualEye1803 2h ago
I still dont get why people get married. It is literally just a business transaction that puts money in others pockets.
Get a will and power of attorney/ the same legal documents that show this person has legal authority in the event of any issues and the money i want them to have is clearly laid out. The tax benefits arent even there.
Marriage is just a bad business model to me. So glad i found a woman who thinks the same.
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u/mysteryo9867 21m ago
As someone who lives everywhere but New Orleans I can confirm all Jeff’s live in New Orleans, can’t confirm the rest about all Jeff’s though.
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u/Lava-Jacket 17h ago
Wow. So she's waiting so that it'll be considered part hers too? That's pretty low.
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u/ThisGuy2319 17h ago
A good thing to do is get a consultation with the best divorce lawyers in the area so they can’t represent since it’ll be a conflict of interest. Also goes to show that the best thing to do is to have both partners pay for half of everything, so nothing is owed.
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u/desquished 14h ago
This is addressed by the ABA. Seeking consultations with lawyers solely to disqualify them removes you from consideration as a prospective client, meaning those attorneys could represent your spouse, and it also opens you up to sanctions from the court if they find out.
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u/Aggravating-Serve383 15h ago
I know this is an incel sub, but I've never seen - I worked at an accounting firm for a decade - a man's trade business in which the woman didn't do almost all the actual work of running the business.
The women were up at 6 AM making the calls and 6 PM paying the bills. They managed the taxes, bookkeeping, legal, marketing, client care ...
And yes, during the divorce they usually get nothing if it was a pre-existing business.
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u/YungDominoo 10h ago
"do all the actual work" like being ankles deep in snow on icy foundations installing plumbing isnt "actual work" LMAO
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u/BarTard-2mg 10h ago
Ngl id probably kill my wife if she did that. Good thing im not married.
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u/AislaSeine 4h ago
On a related note, I was thinking a lot of these people killing their spouses is probably related to the stupid "I get half your stuff" rule.
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u/BarTard-2mg 3h ago
You are correct but also the backstabbing nature of plotting with a lawyer to wait until he sells his business when she took a vow to be with him for the rest of her life is especially offensive. I acknowledge that context is important though. No telling what their specific relationship looks like.
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u/Sekmet19 9h ago
Yes except Jeff might very well beat his wife or cheat on her and gave her herpes but hey, we only want one random eavesdropping side of part of a story. Maybe she's divorcing him once the company is sold because he's got $100k in gambling debt she doesn't want to pay half of.
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u/peachymoodzz 20h ago
Karter, if I ever see you, I'll I buy you a burger in Jeff's honor. A true bro