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Story 17 is just so messed up like why would you destroy something that survived the holocaust and it was his grandmothers

17 made me so freaking angry. That horrible person didn't just destroy important and symbolic family heirlooms, but from what was said about them: important historical artifacts. HOW COULD SHE LIVE WITH HERSELF.

Stories 4 and 17 are genuinely evil. If something like this happened to me I'd definitely be in jail very soon afterwards.

One of the best stories I ever heard was a guy who was the main breadwinner and discovered his stay-at-home wife was cheating on him. It was a no fault divorce state so even though she was the one cheating, if they split she'd get half of everything, plus probably custody of the kids as she was the primary caregiver. So over the course of several years he hid his knowledge, and encouraged her to go back to school to get a degree in nursing. A high-paying job. Once she got her high-paying job, he magnanimously volunteered to become a stay-at-home dad in order to support her career. After several years he'd managed to flip the script to where now SHE was the high earner, while HE was the primary caregiver. See where this is going? Yup! He got the kids, the house, and the alimony. This caused her to end up working a lot more, which made her seem "boring" to her side piece and he ended up dumping her for a younger model too.

Story 4 was just sad and frustrating Imagine being that spiteful

Having to pay child support for a child that isn’t even yours would be insane. Best interest of the kid? How is that fair?

Everyone one is (rightly) mad about what the Ex did in story 17 but frankly I want to ask the judge what the actual fuck he was thinking when he awarded those items to the wrong person. I just cannot fathom one single good reason those items did not go to the biological relation of the owner, the journal at the least since I should think it was not of a provable significant monetary value.

My brother knew a guy in the military who, just prior to his retirement, his wife decided to divorce him. Her plan was to get half of his retirement (after 20ish years of military service). She was gloating, money in the bank, nothing he could do. Except he did. He left the military just a short time before his retirement date. He got no retirement benefits, and neither did she. She. Was. PISSED. No more easy money. If she was smart, she would have waited until he retired. He just laughs about it. He got a good job after the divorce. He makes good money, and he doesn’t have to give it to her. BOOM

Four and 17 or absolutely traumatic. Although in for the other, she will fall when the kids get older. And realize that they didn't get to say goodbye to Grandma and their father was a jailbird because their mom is a petty monster. And destroying somebody else's property because you're in a mood, especially something that belong to a grand parent, I feel like both of those divorced people deserve the karma they earned.

(UK Here) The parents of a friend of mine got a divorce after the wife cheated on the husband. Wife has not worked a day in her life. Husband is self-employed but makes decent money. Wife wants everything (the house, the pets, the furniture, everything), including custody, and has no intention to negotiate. Wife then admits IN COURT NO LESS that the only reason she wants custody is so she can claim benefits and has no intention of finding work. Daughter wants to nothing to do with her mother as she was the one that cheated and was generally a poor parent. Husband gets full custody and a few other items (the wife got the House), and asks for the pets (two perfectly healthy cats), and offered to straight up BUY them when she refused. Wife proceeded to have both cats put down. Husband and Daughter now have nothing to do with her, to the point that Daughter refers to her mother as 'that woman'.

Strange Indiana real-estate law.... if a house has been declared haunted then this info has to be disclosed to potential buyers. Only the owner of a house can declare it haunted... if you're going to lose the home anyway you could make it much harder for your spouse to sell it 😂

I do think there should be some sort of protection on disputed divorce assets where basically if you go after a asset for a malicious porpoise then the property reverts back to the other party and destruction charges can be filled

I sat in court once while a guys case was being heard in relation to his violating a restraining order. The guy didn't harass the woman or anything. He didn't call her and say mean things. What he was sent to jail for was not hanging up on his ex immediately. He made the mistake of explaining to her that her that he couldn't violate the order by talking to her. He spent long enough doing it he went to jail. His ex received no punishment for her violation of the order. No punishment for calling him. The woman was smiling and happy the whole time. She got her way. In her mind she was smart and used the system against him.

I think it says something about the system when the stories about the wife involve her getting almost everything and stories about the husband involve him spending everything that she would have recieved so she can't get it.

The 4th story is just downright evil- I'd understand if the man was dangerous, but she prevented both him and his children from saying their final goodbyes- Also it will never fail to piss me off seeing cases where a parent who isn't biologically related to a child, is expected to pay for that child (the exception being adoption) after a divorce. Why not go after the real fricken' dad?? Also, that "best interest in the child" part is BS in a lot of cases Also Story 17 reminds me so much of my mom- How can people be so goddamn evil??

Let's stop taking love, relationships and family for granted. Today i wish i paid more attention to my wife. I have battled depression since my wife left me. I have tried all I can to make her see that I love her with everything I am made of but she has insisted on leaving. This has made me so empty, and I do not know what to do. I can barely function properly at work. I am frustrated and miserable. I really miss her

Story 17 she did all that work and racked up all the lawyer fees just to be petty and burn the journal and the vase.

Story 17. If I could sue that judge into permanent homelessness and poverty. I think that'd be the only way he could pay for giving her everything despite being the cheater.

I turned this off at story 17 that was the most disgusting and vile thing I’ve ever heard anyone do.

Could he sue her over destroying the vase and journal as a hate crime? Are they pieces of Jewish history for the Holocaust connection?

Been there done that. My wife cheated on me after 13 years of good marriage, she was bored and the guy ( married also) spent a lot with her in romantic getaways. I started to question her" job" travels and she quickly asked for divorce (before I could caught her in act) pretending to the others that I am verbally violent and domineering ... Evidently that the law and the friends never ask for proof when a woman says-so. She got the house and the kid. Then she dated a policeman and she told him that I am the worse liar, bad and violent. He provoked me many times refusing my right to visit my kid, put his colleagues to question me , she made a phony complaint for harassment... it was hell for me because I was innocent. But one day by chance I saw my ex-wife car on the road and inside: her and the previous lover. I texted a message to the cop : "I know you are on duty because she is having a lot of fun with the non existing lover I told you about". He tracked her , find out the truth, first beating of her life ( she officially had an accident in the stairway) and all charges on me were dropped. Eventually the family and friends got also the info.

My brother went through a terrible divorce that has completely ruined his life and mental health. Both he and his now ex-wife got their education in the same exact field. He has a Master's degree while she has a Doctorate. Since he's a hard worker and she's a spoiled entitled princess, he landed a great job that he loves and she barely worked in her field. Divorce happens, he has to pay alimony, child support, and even HER lawyer fees which incidentally made him too poor to afford his own lawyer. She then decides to move halfway across the country with my nephew for seemingly no other reason than spite. She had zero job prospects. So, as a result of that, in order for my brother to see his son, he had to pay to fly there, pay to fly both of them back to his house, pay to fly both of them back to her, and then pay to fly back home since he was still too young to fly alone. Fast forward, my brother decides to upend his entire life, leave a job he loves, to follow them so he could be closer to his son. Only job he could find was a Jewish bakery making barely above minimum wage. Now he's too poor to pay her lawyers so they are threatening to have him thrown in jail. Makes you truly never want to get married if you're a man in this country.

Not a lawyer, but my grandpa's 2nd wife divorced him and was able to get his social security check! He had to work until he had a severe stroke.

“The only winners are the lawyers.” False. The lawyers hate it too, at least the ones who still have a conscience. I know a lot of lawyers who don’t do family law anymore because of the abuse involved. I’ve had multiple clients say “I don’t care if it means I spend more time with my kid; I’m not giving him/her an inch. I’m not getting pushed around again.”

The only thing I can say in response to #17 without flying into a rage “IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!”

That first story is just hilarious

I’ve heard story 16 before. You forgot that after the sale was finalized the husband left and took everything in the house with him… including the curtain rods!

Story 1: Why the hell would you build your house right next to someone you just divorced in the first place?

Great video, I was in a beautiful marriage before my now ex wife left me,i still love her and most times i cant stop thinking about her, i am doing my very best to get rid of the thought of her, but i just cant, i love her so much, i don't know why i am bring this here for, i cant stop thinking about her

I worked for the Divorce Court for 30 years. What I saw judges and lawyers do to men was far worse than ANYthing on this video.

Story 23 - I don't condone murder, but I get why the guy did what he did. The wife and stepdaughter blew all of his money, destroyed his life, and cost him his home, then to find them at his friend's house like nothing had happened... yeah, there'd be few people who wouldn't snap.

As for story #9, if the paternity test comes back that you are not the father, and you were lied to about being the father and the court says "no its in the best interest of the kid that you pay for a kid that's not yours"... escalate that from the county to the circuit court and up to the state supreme court if necessary. You fight that shit until its not legally possible anymore, not your child, not your problem. That 17th story, that woman needs a 1 way ticket to a country that the US does not have an embassy or extradition with, perhaps a corrupt local police force too.

Oh man, I got a juicy one. This story came from a friend of mine about her ex husband. Spoiler: this story has domestic violence and child engagement in it. Also, this happened back in the late 50’s so not everything is word for word. My friend tells this story often and in more detail so I’ll try to be short and to the point. So my friend got divorced from her first husband of 30 something years, they married young (she was 15, he was 19) and had been bffs since they were kids. They split mutually and remained good friends, they talked every day they just didn’t want to be married to each other anymore. Friend is a marine and while out with a few other marines this creepy dude catches her attention. He’s just staring at her and licking his lips. She puts the other marines between her and him and tries to stay as far as possible. For the next few months he follows her and after a night of drinking and having fun with some friends, friend wakes up in a strange house she doesn’t know with a ring on her finger and the creep sleeping next to her. He got her blackout drunk and forced her to sign marriage papers. For the next two years she tries to get a divorce and get away from him. He beats her almost to death on a few occasions and threatens to do the same to “the kids” if she doesn’t do what he wants. He had four kids of his own that were in the house with them(oldest is 11 the youngest was 2 months when they married). She takes the abuse so he doesn’t hurt the kids. Then the lightbulb moment. She decides to take some revenge for all the nightmares he’s put her through. She takes the kids to her ex husband’s house as him watch them while she goes to the courthouse and gets divorce and custody papers. When she gets home the creep is already passed out on the couch. She proceeds to get him blackout drunk and sign the papers, saying their papers for the kids’ school. Once it’s done she goes back to the courthouse and files them. She took him for everything, the house, car and motorcycle, tools furniture everything. She leaves the signed papers on the coffee table, packs her backs and leaves for the military base. When she comes back in the morning he’s gone. She doesn’t see him until a few days later when she and a few other marines are cleaning out the house to sell it. She tells him to stay away from her and the kids as he no longer has custody and a restraining order has been filed. He leaves and she never sees him again more does he try to contact her. 😂word of advice, don’t threaten a marine.

If courts only assign child support in the "best interest of the child", they would be assessing the government as the father, because the government would never miss a child support payment.

Story 17 is legitimately the most depressing story here. I'm normally unaffected by these stories (mostly because I don't really care) but that story. That one story. I'm Jewish, and hearing that one story got me. I'm in shock for that. If I was the husband, I would be in jai already.

I heard a story of a woman who fought for the house where her and her ex lived. She won the house but he destroyed the ground around the house so nothing at all would grow.

The more I hear about the horror stories of marriages falling apart for various reasons makes me wary of getting married myself. I have had many married men tell me to not get married and to stay single as long as I can and they wished that they never got married themselves. The one thing that I have heard, that makes some kind of sense, is that before you propose to a girl, go on a trip with just her to wherever and see what she is really like before popping the question. I was told this by at least 2 guys and they said that this was an eye opener for them and they were glad that they did it cause it saved them from asking the question cause they saw who those girls were really like.

I feel like most of this stuff is just ppl favoring women, that burning a holocaust survivor’s book should be reckonized as a hate crime.

#10 Imagine the Court spending so much time tearing a woman a new one no matter how bad the situation.

If something like the stories for #4 or #17 happened to anyone I'm close to, I would likely be going to jail shortly thereafter...

I've read story 16 before and when the ex-husband and new GF sold the house, they took the curtain rods with them to the new house.

I love to see judges screwed over in divorces. They richly deserve it after throwing the men under the bus.

Okay, but #1 cheered me up immensely. Friggin brilliant

It's it great how love and partnerships can become so petty and vindictive?

#1 is just revenge and good one at that, i hate these 50/50 split laws, especially when they touch retirement money

I will never forget my boss talking about a family law case where the wife was beating and cutting off the oxygen of her war vet husband. I work for a legal messenger group and we serve legal papers to people. There were more than a few times that none of the process servers would go near because of fear of their safety, a lot of these are family law related.

Story 9 is clear paternity fraud, and the fact that this woman get child support that may or may not go to the child is terrible.

Story 10 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="339">5:39</a> is stupid. The spouse with more money had to pay spousal support to the one with less. Happens all the time. If it were a woman mooching off a man, nobody would blink.

these storys makes me fear ever getting married in the future

#16 is an urban legend.

Story 1# isn't the worst you can do to an ex. Had me laughing

what was the judge smoking in story 17? why would the ex-wife have any right to family heirlooms of the husband? a surprise the judge and ex didn´t end up in hospital or 6 feet under, so to speak

Relating to someone I know who essentially grew up next to me, she eloped with this guy in the Marine Corps., probably weren't even married two years, claims he cheated on her (though later I suspect that SHE cheated on him), took his GI benefits, probably half, if not three-quarters of his money, and decided to go back to college and buy a house at the same city where she was going to college. She claims her divorce was "really, really, bad" and that she didn't want to date for a very long time. Next thing you know, around the time she's going to college (for another degree in something, IDK), she already has a new boyfriend, probably not even four years after her "really, really bad" divorce. Since then, the guy she was married to has deleted his Facebook page probably because no one would believe him, and who knows, he probably committed suicide, or is living a life of ruin and shambles. She's a definite cheat, a liar, and a swindler. It just goes to show that even those who were raised and grew up next to you (and to add she was raised by a religious family), are even capable of pulling such heinous shit. UPDATE: The man is still alive, and working as an engineer for some information technology center. I wouldn't doubt he has some PTSD from that divorce.

What state was story #17 in because from what I can recall family heirlooms are not allowed to be transferred to another party in divorce procedures in certain states due to certain guidelines and federal laws in those states. Not only that but that vase and journal would be considered historical artifacts and therefore should also be protected by law though I can't remember the name of the law

I like just grinding on a game while listening to am I the jerk and am I the genius

With the thumbnail, I just imagined Phoenix Wright being the lawyer for some of these people and he's getting more of an aneurysm than his usual crazy cases😂

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="390">6:30</a> so he met all requirements, she made way more than he did, and she's used to supporting him and the kids? Sounds like he got what he was owed, the judge in this situation exhibited bias and should probably lose his job for his unruly comments.

Some of these stories make me understand why people commit murder. Sending the ex-husband to jail while his mother dies and burning the items that survived the Holocaust in particular made me seethe with anger.

Paying child support for kid that isn't yours is simply an extortion and should be treated as such... 10th story is "so wrong on many levels" because the man is receiving support, nothing else. Good for the man!

Story 1 had me dying of laughter

Just goes to show you that the court systems are in favor of women 99.9% of the time the one about his mothers vase and journal are ridiculous.

Story one almost made my lungs explode🤣

if 4 or 17 ever happened to me, I'd be put to death already for the things i'd do

#23 is the perfect example of just dont get married. perfectly cozy life insert woman and boom instantly life ruined.

The first one was surprisingly funny. High IQ play there, good sir!

You just earned a sub for covering some Reddit drama 🤯😃

The first story killed me😂

After hearing all this, I'm reminded of the "there's no 'reason' to slap a woman" Skit by Bill Burr. But that skit was all hypothetical, I assure you.

I’ve never clicked on these videos faster than today. Am I the genius is one of the best channels I have seen. It is so interesting seeing people’s stories and to know that Am I the jerk is always a second option (chefs kiss) anyways I wanted to thank you for the content I get nearly daily. Really thank you so much.

Story 1 made me wheeze. 😂

That shrimp one is brilliant 👏

I can't comment on other states, but in the state I live in the court really doesn't give a damn about the paternity of the man ordered to pay it. Most of the money goes to the state, not the child. Also the court doesn't care about the fact that they are very likely preventing him from having his own biological child because he likely can't afford it.

Story 14, i completely agree with the husband

The vase and journal broke my heart 😭😭😭

Story #1 Epic I can't stop laughing. Naming you're dog the same as you're ex-wife

This is basically a booster for the RP community until the laws change we are out

Story #10 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="337">5:37</a> is brilliant. The shoe is finally on the other foot and fucking everyone including the judge freak out.

That itch with vase and journal I'd have sent her to the after life 😂

I love the first story!!!😂😂🤣😅GENIUS!!!!!

That journal-vase one. I would have gone to the news about it. let everyone know what the judge did and what the ex-wife did. Seriously.. fuck.

Story 17 that's so fucked up I feel bad for him

As someone who just completed the first Phoenix Wright game I must say I love the thumbnail for this video lmao.

#17 was hilarious

Story 10: is at the age old story that women do to men all the time in court? So how is he somehow the “bad guy“? At least the guy knows the kids are his … hopefully

Story #17 is probably the strongest argument against marriage.

Not a lawyer but rather a construction worker. I was working on a job and is often the case the building was surrounded by mud from rain and construction equipment. One of the guys in the crew drove in in a nice plush car. We immediately asked him why he hadn't driven his truck in. He said he and his wife had a divorce hearing and they made a list of possessions. The judge looked at the list and told his soon to be ex, you're entitled to half the possessions and gave her the right to choose which items. She chose his truck, his hunting gear and all his fishing gear. My first wife fought me for a year over my building us a new home. She kept telling me I was stupid for wasting our money. That I wouldn't be able to build the home myself. Well I got it done and it turned out to be a beautiful brick home. The economy took a downturn and all my wifes relatives were losing their homes but she was telling everyone how smart we were to have built our home when we did and that it was paid for. Down the road I had a serious health issue and couldn't work for a bit. My wife told me she wasn't happy and wanted a divorce so she could go out and live her life. I gave it to her. Our kids remained with me. Next thing I know I get the divorce decree and the judge gave her a lien on the house for twice what the house cost me to build. I had no money and no child support from her and couldn't work at the time. The courts are never fair with the guys no matter what.

These stories are my workout playlist

This is why it is good to be arowmadic

Ok,so I'll ask "WhAt's tHE NAme oF THe GaME?!?"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="136">2:16</a> Court should let him off with a warning with this one.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="375">6:15</a> Yet if it was a woman doing the same thing she’d be considered strong, independent, and brave

I really, really just want 1 person here to agree with the wife on story 17. That's how I know wo to hate before meeting them in person.

I definitely feel for the dude in story 23, I definitely don’t condone murder, however I can absolutely see how the wife lead him to doing that

This is why I stay single and keep everyone away. I have something to lose and Ill be damned if someone takes what ive earned.

The dog one is funny ☠️☠️

Story 10. Ive heard of a tone of stories exactly the same but with reversed genders and everyone in them were completely fine with it

Sounds like getting married in America is suicidal and insane. Really feel for those that get screwed by the judges and system.

Story 13 happened to my brother exactly! He was so upset he called husband #1 asking him if he wants back custody of his son, he said “nah I’m good”! 🤣🤣 my brother deserves it for being a sucker. We warned him but he knew best lol

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="517">8:37</a>, This is why you never adopt a child. Because it puts you on the hook for everything.

10 happens all the time when the roles are reversed. Still bad