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Originally Posted by supafamous
Divorce, especially with 3 kids, does put a pretty serious dent in "good money" - he's just signed to rent a 3 bedroom townhouse for $4950/mo as they will have shared custody while his ex-wife will need a 4 bedroom house as her parents live with her/them. They're selling the house they have together and are probably going from a $5-8k mortgage payment to having to spend $10-12k on housing between the two of them. If I had to guess I think their household income was around $350-425k with him being the higher earner by a bit - I'd guess he'll pay a little bit of child support but not much.
They had also just moved on from paying $5k/mo for their nanny earlier this year and he was so excited to get that cashflow back and now it's gone again.
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We were a 300k household before I got laid off and there's no way it's amazing money, or we are just doing something very wrong. There would be practically nothing left if we have to pay 5k monthly for a nanny on top of our mortgage. We were at a 175/125 split, and our take home was around 16-17k/m
Even at 350k, they would be taking home 19k a month, dropping 12k a month on two homes is ridiculous.
We are too broke to get divorced. I do joke that I can't afford to get divorced, but I can afford to die. I have enough coverage that my wife and kids would be taken care of.
Lesson to take home, don't get married, and definitely don't have kids.