67 years old. Did you not have a retirement plan? Was she that bad of a mom that the kids don’t want to help her? She has no other family, brother, sister, aunt? Can’t she worse case, move to Phoenix and work at a Starbucks for $10 an hour. Again – poor choices.
Its kind of strange, I have some familiarity with people who end up going this way. My father used and/or screwed over anyone who was associated with him or tried to help him. After a while, people just stayed away. He was never there for the kids. He quit a well paying job to do stock speculating. Because of the noise of the kids, he insisted on buying another house. He did not do that well at investing, but insisted on continuing (and not going back to the 9 to 5, in spite of responsibilities of a family). He didn’t want anyone to be his boss. My mom ended up carrying the cost of the first house and part of the second.. which she later found out he was using as a love-nest.. in a shit hits the fan moment.
In the divorce, he basically got both houses because my mom wanted her income and retirement to be free and clear of him. She took the kids and raised them. The end result was that my mom prospered and he sort of floated along, alienating everyone who tried to help. He also ended up with very little money to his name.
Moral of this is that when you seem something like what has happened to that 67 year old woman, it is probably Karma doing its payback. Another thing to realize is that one bad decision doesn’t take someone and put them on the street like this. It takes a succession of decisions, their consequences and not learning from them.
PS: 67 is old enough to draw Social Security…
@bsrsharma I am weak on family law; does the law not provide for alimony for someone in her situation, especially if her ex-spouse is well off? If she spent her life as a homemaker, she deserves that in any sane society.
Alimony, not necessarily.. BUT she gets half of all assets in most community property states. After the divorce, the two are essentially separate individuals. It is tricky to go back and have additional monies levied because one of the two made a series of bad decisions after the divorce. In many ways, you don’t even want to open the door to that. It would also open the door to being sued for support because someone you once dated and lived with is now having financial problems. NOTE: she could have been one of those women who divorced the husband and took him to the cleaners. People saw what she was doing and it left a bad taste.
There are so many variables.. but I do know that in general, if you do good to others, it comes back to you in times of need (Karma).
