Since the marriage was ending with a domestic violence court case, her divorce attorney did everything he could to seek damages for my sister.
My sister has a history of being secretive with the family. We had no idea that she got married in 2018, but I’m not sure anyone else did either. By the time she finally admitted to the marriage, things were already going downhill with her husband. He’s from a country where there is a strict patriarchal society where women are expected to be subservient to men. For a while my sister and her husband tried to compromise and meet halfway with their expectations of one another, but eventually the problems became glacial. At one point he spit in her face and slapped her when they were having a heated argument. I invited her to stay with me in my house until she could find a place for herself. Without a moment’s hesitation I told her to contact our state’s Bar Association for attorneys. The Bar Association asks you what your needs are and will give you the contact information of a handful of different attorneys in your area that fit the right specialty. In her case she needed to find a good divorce attorney locally as quickly as possible. While the state pursued a criminal case against the man, my sister got everything that she needed prepared on her side for a divorce. Since the marriage was ending with a domestic violence court case, her divorce attorney did everything he could to seek damages for my sister. Now her abusive ex-husband is forced to pay her alimony money indefinitely. She was able to keep the house that was shared between the two of them but had always been in my sister’s name. I warned him that I’d be the next person in jail if he ever came one step closer to my sister or the rest of my family again.