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To: spiral3 who wrote (93445)	11/3/2008 6:04:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541414

what about in settling a divorce ? Well, I'm divorced. We were married ten years. My husband divided up the investments. I divided up the stuff. As I recall, that was his idea. We each glanced at and accepted the other's list without challenge. Later, after we were separated for a while, he found an ad for a Dominican divorce arrangement. He gave me his power of attorney and I was scheduled to go get it since I enjoy travel but I had to work so I ended up giving him my power of attorney and he went. There was never any issue over or discussion of fairness or any conscious attention to it that I am aware of. I divided the stuff based on who it more belonged to. I remember, for example, that he got the gun and I got the schefflera. Looking back on it, it may be that he divided the stocks to give me the more conservative ones but he never mentioned his criteria. That was that. I have no idea whether the bottom line was fair or not since I never gave it any conscious thought. Nor would I know how I would judge it to be fair or not fair.