To fight or to play nice?
Location: Pennsylvania
I will be getting a divorce at some point.
My spouse committed a crime, not bad enough for jail time but likely probation and registered offender.
They had a job making more than double what I do a month but since our split has taken a job making less than before but still more than me by about $5 per hour and now has a pension.
I have no claim to our home. We purchased it before we got married and I stupidly allowed it to be without my name on the paperwork. My car is mine, their car is theirs and they had 2 motorcycles but traded them for a new one after we split.
Part of me wants the simple cheap divorce to just cut my losses and be done. But part of me wonders if it'd be worth the money to fight?
So far it feels that this person has ruined our lives and will have no real punishment. They will get our home, half of my 401k, and (if they wouldn't have went back to work) I'd have had to pay spousal support if I had filed immediately.
Would it be worth it? What could I fight for/be entitled to?