I think she would be entitled to half of the sale of the main house, if they dissolve the trust that owns it.
And if the trustfund income was used by Nick to pay for general expenses during the marriage it should be included in the income calculations.
I believe the commingling principle that takes personal inheritance monies to joint status applies to putting them in joint accounts or acquiring joint assets. And income is typically a current calculation.
But if current income were 0 (it's not), they'd impute income (what he should be able to make), and initial decisioning would be based on that (or he could immediately move for an adjustment, if there has been a change since evaluated).
And the house is currently being foreclosed on, so the net proceeds could be low. But of course there is the Murder Barn, too.
If it is capped at 150000$ anyway, I would think the trustfund income alone would get there considering Nick's spending habits.
Yep.
He is also still a lawyer and can be expected to work in that capacity to earn money.
100%
But he had a couple dozen mostly low-level court cases in small-town Minnesota, where he just said recently that he couldn't make a buck, in 3 years (in at least 2 of which he apologized to the Court for fucking up and begged not to have it count against his client) (hello, writedown ), plus he says he has had corporate/contract clients. Pretty meager. And good luck getting local clients after the last few years.
That said, he absolutely ought to be deemed able to earn a fair living. But at $60k, even assuming 0 kid time responsibilities, kids on Medicaid or no healthcare insurance costs, and 0 spousal and (presumably) 0 non-joint children, Kayla's receives $1470/month for the kids + $1500 for her spousal maintenance. 6 people on $36k = $500/ month each. Nick would be living on $24k, or $2000/mo for him alone (his taxes on $60k would be negligible if he gets the child deductions - support is not deductible (nor taxable to the recipient) but who takes the deduction is negotiable and it would make no sense for her to take them on $0 taxable income.
But of course that's not reality, bc they have significant assets even before you get to whatever he gets outside of any earned income.
And if he's several years behind on the CLE, and he has probably done absolutely zero, it will take a considerable period of time to fix. Not "easily corrected" at all. Especially for a wet-brained retard whose every utterance makes it clear that basic mental functions are now beyond his ability.
It literally is very easy to correct. For under $2k he can take unlimited classes. So even if he were missing 46-90 hours (2 reporting periods' worth) - which he's not or he'd already have been not authorized for the last 3 years - he could finish it in 2 weeks if he worked hours like a normal person; 3 weeks if he was of course driving kids 70 hours/day.
I recall people aking him about it in late 2022, and he said he never heard anyhting about it. He signed an NDA, but no one got back to him about it.
It could have been Algebra because I doubt his Arts degree required much Math's.
...I was going to say hey! Some BAs require at least through Calc II, but then I remembered he went to a school with a 92% acceptance rate that is ranked #39 of 57 of "regional public schools in the Midwest - which list does not include any flagship universities, which are accounted for on the national list.
ACT range: 17-23, on a 36-point scale and a 27% 4-year graduation rate. No wonder he thinks he's a superstar.
but Nick had everything most people want out of life and then some (a family, a beautiful house, plenty of money, success, fame and respect) yet decided to completely self-destruct at the age of 41.
