The New York Daily News has reported that a Manhattan Judge has ruled that a New York lady’s divorce award was reduced due to the harm she caused her ex-husband’s business by defamatory public statements. Complaints she made included that her former spouse was abusive, and had spent over $200,000 on an engagement ring for his Playboy bunny girlfriend while refusing to pay for his daughter out of hearing aid money.
The husband, a New York lawyer, was named “Lawyer of the Month” on a prominent website in a sarcastic jibe due to his ex wife’s statements (meaning his failure to pay for his daughter’s hearing aid)
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In a ruling made public, Justice Laura Drager found that the outspoken ex-wife should receive only 17% of the $5 million value of the partnership — about $855,000. She previously stood to collect about half, but “in essence, the wife chose to bite the hand that fed her,” Drager wrote.
The Judge also confirmed that this was one of the most acrimonious cases the Court had seen, and that both parties displayed poor conduct throughout.
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