Divorce
So, I read where some oil company guy is paying his wife almost a billion damn dollars in a divorce. You gotta hate somebody a whole lot to be willing to give them a billion dollars just to go away.
Continental Resources (CLR.N) Chief Executive Officer Harold Hamm has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to his ex-wife in one of the largest-ever U.S. divorce judgments, according to a court filing on Monday.
In an 80-page ruling following a more than nine-week divorce trial that ended last month, Oklahoma Special Judge Howard Haralson ruled that oil magnate Hamm should pay his ex-wife a total of $995.5 million.
Bubba said that if I divorce him I get half a GMC pick up truck, his 7 iron which never worked worth crap anyway, and his entire collection of coffee cans with leftover nails in them.
I truly love it when the CEO types claim it’s their expertise that increased the value of their corporation so they should get huge bonuses. But when someone lays claim to their share of that increased value it’s just due to the “passive factors like oil prices and new technologies helped to propel the firm’s value”.
Juanita Jean is fortunate to have so many lawyers available because most of us would end up giving all of our money to a divorce lawyer and having nothing left to divide afterward as was the Jarvis case described by Mr. Dickens in “The Old Curiosity Shop”.
1Harold is one lucky piker; that’s not even 10% of his net worth. Wonder if the old cheapskate ever reached Mitten’s top tax year of 14%.
2Good to plan ahead. I know what I’d get would be a zillion old books and about half a million old LPs and fifty years’ worth of alumni bulletins. Gives you cause for pause.
3I’ve been wondering what obscenely rich people do with their money– as witness the article I mentioned a while back about the world’s richest man (in Mexico) who would take 220 years to spend all his money at the rate of $1,000,000 a day.
I guess this is one way to get rid of some of it.
The head of our local Sherlock Holmes society says that Sherlockians never divorce because they’d have to split up the books.
4With his wealth, he could repeat the $995 million payout about 15 more times before he’s mostly broke.
5the lady that let’s me live with her reminds me, if we get divorced, I can keep my kilt collection, as I sure as hell never wore the pants around the house.
6Hey, somebody tell him that I’m willing to go away for half that amount.
Where do I sign up?
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7How much he want for the cans of nails?
8And the marriage holds together because if Bubba divorces you, you get the life insurance proceeds provided you are discrete about it.
9The biggest divorce settlement in the country? You actually mean he beat out that giddy Daddy Warbucks Walsh who used to run GE? Next question: Does the Guinness Book of World Records record this kind of stuff?
10maggie, 2nd place goes to our own Steve Wynn here in NV. The big bucks have been on the rise in the last 5 years.
Wouldn’t divorce my wife for a $billion. Then again, us little guys cough up the house and car, retain the payments, split half of any remaining assets and struggle to the finish line carrying hefty alimony payments.
Moral of the story ladies: marry us little guys in NV with the low 6 incomes. We’re real careful about giving you cause for divorce.
11Rhea, if I’m thinking of the same richest man in Mexico that you are, he paid to have the entire contents of Kahn Academy translated into Spanish for his countrymen and women. No small thing. That’s what some rich people do.
Kahn Academy, if you’re not familiar with it, is the most wonderful free academic aid any student of any age can use to help them get through their subjects…math, chemistry, biology, astronomy, etc. It’s an amazing site, and it saved both my granddaughter and I when we were taking college algebra.
Take a look: https://www.khanacademy.org/
1241 years on my little bride and I couldn’t get our financial affairs separated let alone our emotional affairs. If the marriage ends that means somebody’s dead.
13Yes, indeed, there’s something to be said about NOT accumulating too much money. If my Bubba and I got divorced, it would leave both of us poor. Ain’t gonna happen.
14Micr, toast to you and your beautiful bride! When you are celebrating your 60th Anniversary, please join Jane and I for a toast at her Inaugural Ball.
Politics as unpredictable as it can be, Jane will either be President of the US or Governor of Nevada. Me? I’ll be both the luckiest and proudest First Husband ever.
15Wait, you’d get all the cans of nails? Really? Maybe that’s why we’ve been married nearly 35 years — my dear husband just couldn’t bear to give up the cans of nails, to say nothing of all the nuts and bolts and washers. Who would get the duct tape?
16I took math classes via Kahn Academy. It’s a wonderful resource.
17I’ve been divorced from the same woman for 32 years and no one congratulates me. What gives?
18e platypus onion: congratulations. I’ve never been married, so I can’t possibly get divorced. Maybe someday.
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