Matt Vickers is very stupid; though, he may vehemently protest otherwise.
He may not have known or read the mortgage contract thoroughly. Those things are like a million pages long of small, fine print. The truth is, most people are guilty of not reading the fine print until they need to for something and even then, they only read the section that pertains to whatever issue/concern they are having.
Like, honestly, I have an HOA and mortgage and for all I know, it has that same policy and I just have no idea because I’ve never had to file for bankruptcy, so I’ve never looked into it. So, for all I know, it’s a common policy. I’m not saying it’s smart, but it’s common, people sign their rights away all the time without reading the fine print. Occasionally, you get that person who reads every page of a contract and negotiates or refuses to sign based on what’s in it, but that’s not most people. Reading all this, tho, I should be that way, we all should, because people’s ignorance and failure to read the fine print is what these companies count on and why they’re able to put in such outrageous terms in the first place, they know most people won’t read it or even know about it until it’s too late and they’re already locked in. If most people read the terms of these mortgage agreements beforehand, these companies wouldn’t be able to get away with making such 1-sided terms. But anyway.
So, it’s been well established by now that Vickers is drowning in debt and the walls are caving in around him. My question is, in what way would a divorce make this easier, financially? If it’s a paper divorce, there’d have to be some strategy behind this that they intend to benefit from, right? But as of 2018, the IRS and the mortgage and HOA fees appear to be his biggest debts, none of which bankruptcy can resolve. So, how would a divorce help? What options or loopholes would a divorce offer them that they don’t currently have as a married couple? Genuinely curious, I’ve never been through anything like this before. I know that old couples sometimes divorce if one has to go to a nursing home, for example, because then your surviving partner is not left with the debts and costs of it. But I’m not sure what a divorce would do for debts they’ve already both accumulated. Assuming it is a paper divorce.