A Letter from Lovey!

She actually wrote me a letter!

An old fashioned, typewritten, folded, enveloped licked, postage paid, postage delivered LETTER!

And you know what she said?

She wants her alimony to start...and the agreement signed.....PRONTO!

Let's review!

I turned the agreement around last year PRONTO, and she has had my draft for nearly a year without anything further happening.

So now, I have had her new/old version for almost 4 weeks....waiting for my attorney to return from vacation.....and she is pushing to move things along.

Hmmmm.

She has now increased her amount of alimony requested by two hundred dollars per month!

I responded with an email that set forth my expenditures, and suggested that we might want to have alimony to start less and increase gently over the next how ever long it takes.... I also told her that even though I had thought she was getting her own automobile policy as stated in her letter, that I noted that it was still apearing on my insurance.

She sent me an email in response....no letter this time.

"Yes, I’m still on your insurance. I made the effort to contact the insurance company and I spoke to them on August 22 to find out why I was still on your policy. Since I’m not receiving any other support from you – and I could really use it at this point – I guess I will stay on your policy for a while longer. Thanks for budgeting it in.

I’m having trouble getting the paperwork from the Conference Office for the medical –I don’t know why, but I need to call them AGAIN and ask for them to send it. (I was supposed to have it more than 2 weeks ago, but it hasn’t shown up in the mail.) However, without support I cannot afford the increased out of pocket expenses my own policy would pose right now (the plan is not as good as previously thought), so I’ll remain on your policy for the moment.

I realize that the separation agreement we marked up and discussed is different from the one we made edits to. I’m not sure what happened there, but it’s my attorney's version and I’d like to go with it. It’s just as thorough and legal as your attorney’s version, and since I had the first draft done, I’d like to keep to that format. (I’m just sorry you spent so much money having her write an entirely different agreement which said much of the same thing – had you initiated the separation, we would use your draft I am sure. Please mark it up and send it to me. As I said in my letter to you last week, I’m all for you and me going over it before it goes back to the attorneys. I really would like to get everything over and done with.

Concerning alimony figures, I should ask for $900, which is half of what I am technically entitled to – that figure has to do with more than my mere monthly expenses – I will be 70 when I retire, and I have no property/home to retire in, and I have to do something about that in the next few years.) I have not asked for an unreasonable amount (if we have to take this to court, which I would rather avoid, I could end up getting a larger sum, but I would not be awarded less)..."

Peace,

Lovey"


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