The "D" word...Has audio ever caused it?

Calculate the blue book market values of all your equipment. Those are 'community' assets, along with everything else of course. You get half & she gets half of the total assets. If you want to keep the gear vs. liquidating, then you're gonna have to give up something else to compensate for that. It still comes out 50-50 when all is said & done. Best of luck...

It's not the divorce that hurts, it's those damn alimony checks that are the real killers. The better question to my mind is: how can one make payments and at the same time continue to build a decent system? Many recently divorced have said learning to budget right after their divorce is one of the hardest parts.

No i'm single but infidelity with a girlfriend cost me a total system back in the 80s.

a few years ago, an apparent audiophile in the denver area ended up both divorced and imprisoned, based at least in part on his compulsive purchases of audio gear (and cars, rare wines, etc.). seems this fellow, an auditor for a hotel chain, embezzled millions of $$ over the years, which he used to buy an incredible array of goodies. he had so much audio and video stuff that most was in storage. his (former) wife and the audio dealers who naturally adored him believed his claims to be a trust funder whose "job" was merely something with which to keep busy. for him, i'm sure, compulsory restitution is much more hurtful than alimony. -kelly