Legal Separation

Divorce. It's never pretty. At least not as pretty as the new girlfriend.

When it happens, usually there's the day he or she moves out. At that time, a legal snapshot is taken of the combined partnership's assets, and it is from that launchpad that the lawyers go to work, trying to create conflicts so that they can bill as many hours as possible to the fighting couple.

What? The lawyers are capitalists just like everyone else. And yeah, yeah...lawyers can twist ethical arguments to run any way they want. They're trained to do so, in fact.