Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 26, 2024

You need a better lawyer.

At least he got the dish antenna, a TV, and a recliner out of it. I’ve seen worse.

Handling retirement quite well.

She got the car and the kids, he got the house ..

Meanwhile your ex is living in luxury (a few blocks from adequacy, but oh how those blocks matter!)

And she’s latched on to half his retirement benefits!!!!

She got the bigger box.

Actually, that looks pretty comfortable.

Cool! An empty refrigerator box. As kids, we loved those things.

Well that sucks.

Jerry Reed, She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft.

Hell at least he has the chair & tv!

Hey, he’s got a box and a whole alley to himself. Better off than some. Wonder when he gets power from though. ;-)

There… at the base of the lamppost… is that R2-D2 about too get lucky with the charcoal grill in the alley?

Another comic: Satan saying to the poor soul, “Your wife’s lawyer was d*** good – it’s ironclad even down here.”

Looks like a R2 unit is hitting the bottle (at the lamp post). Staff reductions at Rebel HQ?

She had a balloon that even NORAD missed.

Prenup what you do when you get married with the intention of getting divorced. Why bother? Just give her the money up front.

He did well. I crawled away from one divorce with less than that!

It all fell apart (turned topsy-turvy) when he didn’t heed the directions on the box.

Possibly he got all the things that he considered important during their marriage — all the things that he spent time with. I often find that men gripe about their ex-wives ‘taking them to the cleaners’ but what that actually means is the ex-wives, who have primary custody of the kids, got the house and larger car so the kids’ lives will be less disrupted and the complaining fathers got their bachelor pad with no parental obligations other than occasional visits from the kids [usually at the father’s convenience]. The complaining dads essentially get the life they craved before — no real parental involvement other than taking the kids to activities they themselves enjoy; no hassle if they stop off for a drink after work and miss dinner; no need to do any planning or coordination before taking off on a trip with ‘the guys.’

Wonder if his faulty pre-nup was in not doing a really good evaluation of their two personalities and the possibilities for they would end up in just this situation

I used to work at a hardware store in a wealthy suburb. We would get the ex-wives coming in and asking us to show them how to do simple home repairs. They got the house, but had no practical skills and soon found that it cost them $100 min to have a handyman show up to change a toilet flapper. When you pay $5,000 for a handbag, you must make sacrifices somewhere.

Is that a garbage can or is R2D2 just happy to see me ?

Stuff happens.

Just spoke with a lawyer last month while my husband consults “Perry Mason”. Happy trails!

I find myself wondering if Wiley has a standard city-sidewalk template that he just plops down on the drawing board before starting to fill in the characters.

Congrts cmerb you wound up a bunch of trolls, ruined their day!

That’s what happens when you live in California

Seems like she protected her assets in the prenup. He left with what he had in the beginning – a recliner and laptop.

The lawyer is rich now.

The “intelligence-gathering failure” was that he didn’t know her lawyer was better than his.

Signing it was the failure.

He’s got The Dish!?! I can’t even afford that!!

Did you hear about the “Divorced Barbie”? She comes with all of Ken’s stuff!

He didn’t realize she had a Divorce Shark on retainer Before they got married.