Divorce and having no money?

Hi I'm Lizzy and I'm 35 and I'm going through a divorce in which I decided I would do 2 days ago. Me and my husband have been married for 11 years we have a 9 year old 6 year old and 4 year old.
My husband makes around 450k a year plus bonuses around 30-50k. I'm worried that if I get a divorce I will have no money to sustain my life style and support my kids.
We have 2 homes a 900,000 main residence and a 600,000 vacation condo in Florida.
We have 4 Cars a Porsche Panamera, a Audi convertible, a Honda Pilot, and a Mercedes E class all about 2 years old

I'm wondering do you think I would receive any money or cars or any part of the house?
And would I receive spousal support or child support for our 3 kids? (I do not work I stay home and care for my children)
And any additional advice would be awesome!

YOU HAVE MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE I KNOW. YOU SHOULD COME TO AN AGREEMENT WITH YOUR HUSBAND. ALSO YOU PUT YOUR CHILDREN LAST IN THE ASKING WHEN THE FIRST THOUGHTS SHOULD BE TO THEM.

You will get child support, and probably a property settlement and maybe temporary spousal support. But at 35 you won't be taken care of for life, so will need to plan for your future, and most likely get a job. In the property settlement, you will likely get one of the homes and one or two the cars, but might have to sell them depending on how much is still owed on them.

It depends on which state you live in, and why you are getting divorced. Without knowing those facts, its impossible to answer. You likely won't be able to sustain your lifestyle and the fact that you don't work will actually have a negative impact on how the money you would get for child support.

Where I live all marital assets would be evenly divided, no alimony would be paid, and child support would be about $1800/month. But in other states you wouldn't get any or only a small share of the equity of the houses since you did not make any contribution to pay off the mortgages. But in the states that allow alimony you would need to prove a need and one need is proving yourself incapable of earning the money yourself, thus at 35 you would be hard pressed to receive much, and then only for a short period of time.

Hi. You have been in a long-term marriage and you are accustom to a particular life style, don't work but take care of your children, household. You need to discuss this with an attorney, take a copy of his last year's tax returns with you, and any other documentation about finances that you can find, so the attorney has some idea of your lifestyle and his income, the material possessions you have gained together as husband and wife.

An attorney knows his way around the law, can help you request your husband pays for the divorce and can help you decide on a settlement for possible spousal support.

Child support is always granted.

take care.

Your so full of BS.

You are Legally entitled to half of everything. And Child support. The more you can sort out by mutual agreement the less you both pay the solicitors etc. He could agree to leaving the house to you and the kids and paying the bills and one car. Or you could agree to sell the Vacation Condo and then he finds somewhere to move into. Then you could look to Down size

Andy C

Get yourself an attorney and ask what the laws say in your state about divorce. Then brace yourself for a really long and arduous divorce, sharing the kids, and awful fighting each other for 14-17 years, and lots and lots of attorney fees.

You are past the magic 10 year point so you will get alimony and child support.

You are filing for divorce by choice and by doing that you choose to permanently reduce the lifestyle of all involved including yourself. That's how it works. You get some but not all.

See a lawyer.

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