rSlash - r/Askreddit What's the Most Evil Thing You've Seen in Divorce Court?

Episode Date: October 28, 2026

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If you're ready to finally launch your business before Black Friday, go to Shopify.com to start your free trial. That's Shopify.com. Go to Shopify.com today to hear your first... Welcome to R-slash Ask Reddit where people answer the question. Divorce lawyers of Reddit. What's the most evil thing you've seen during a divorce? Our first replies from Rosefeather. Not a lawyer, but a veterinarian. We had a guy try to have his estranged wife's dog euthanized during a messy divorce. Fortunately for her and the dog, the dog was already our patient and our policy was to never do any treatment without at least verbal consent from the client on the pet's charts. The wife was the only one who had ever brought the dog in before that and hadn't put her husband's name on the paperwork.

So after he checked in, the technician called the owner on file to speak with her about why her slightly old, but apparently healthy dog, was being brought in for euthanasia. Turns out, the husband had stopped by the house earlier that day and stolen the dog from the yard. She had no idea where they were until we called. Police were involved, and ultimately the dog made it back home safely. Then another reply from Grizzly Clairebear. I work at a shelter. Sometimes an ex will bring in their shared pet and try to abandon them. It happens so effing often, it's disgusting.

Most of the time we catch it and call the ex to come get the pet, free of charge. Sometimes the person just lies their face off just to make the ex's life difficult to try to take away something they love. Those people are so evil. And another reply from Little Lot. A few months ago, someone dropped off a dog at our shelter claiming he was astray. The dog was chipped and we were able to get in contact with the owner who lived in a different state. His ex had stolen the dog and driven all the way to another state so that the owner would have no hope of finding him. Thankfully, she didn't know that he was chipped because there's no way they would ever have been reunited otherwise. And another reply from Officer Miao Meow Meow. My ex-husband's girlfriend

had both of my dogs that I had even before I met him put down the day after the divorce was finalized. The judge didn't let me have them back because he got the house and I was in an apartment. Better off did than in an apartment, I guess. And another reply from Landatie. I nannied for a family when I was in college. The parents took turns being the parent in the house during divorce proceedings. One of those days, the dad had a vet come to the house and euthanize the slightly old, but otherwise healthy family dog in front of the kids. That dog was more the moms than the dads, of course.

RIP, Shan, she was a good girl. Our next replies from Fart Kilometer. My ex-s cousin worked for a divorce lawyer and told us about one couple, who got into a massive dispute over custody of their two young kids, ages four and six. The fight wasn't about who would get them. It was over who had to take them. Neither wanted custody. Just made me feel sad for those kids. Beneath that we have this reply from character K. Oh, was it my parents, lull? My parents eventually ended up splitting us up, so neither had to pay child support. My brother and I went with my dad, who promptly took a job as a truck driver so he did

I didn't have to be home. I was the eldest at 13. He was pissed that he had to pay rent for a house for us. My sister went with my mom, who immediately got her hooked on drugs and started trying to get my sister pregnant so she could try again to have a happy family. My sister was 12. She was pregnant and addicted to meth by the age of 14. Anyways, there's some really awful people out there. Our next replies from Responsible Son. I was a legal assistant, and a woman opted to give up everything in exchange for her husband's mother's China, which was beloved to him and his family. The dispute went on forever, and eventually the husband relented. On the day the divorce decree was signed, she showed up and she broke

every piece of China, put it all in a box, and mailed it to him. Beneath that, we have this reply for mobile lawyer. I asked for one thing out of the house, after I'd moved out. One thing. The teapot my mom bought me in England. The judge told him to give it to me. At the next drop-off, he handed me the pot, minus the top, rendering it useless. He told me our kid broke it. Our next reply is from L'O. My stepdad's ex-wife sat his three kids down around the tree. She told them on Christmas Eve that they could go to their father's house for Christmas if they really wanted to, but they would never see her again and she would miss them, because their dad was going to kill them. They were five, seven, and eight years old.

No, of course, the dad wasn't really going to kill them. She was just an awful woman. She had told her husband that she was going to make sure those children would never want to spend another holiday, weekend, or minute with him. And she was right. They were petrified of him. He adored those kids, and she did everything possible. to ruin their relationship. She mentally abused those children as teens and as adults. She was evil incarnate. Beneath that, we had this story from cautious string. Dude, I wish we could have

set her up with my dad. My dad put a hit on my mother's affair partner. She took us kids and moved out a few weeks before. My dad was using me to get info of where my mom and boyfriend would be during our nightly calls. My mom found out I was the league and I got into here. huge trouble, and she said if my boyfriend was killed, it was my fault. My dad didn't get into any trouble over it, and the boyfriend got promoted to stepdad two weeks after the divorce was finalized. My dad is dead. I hadn't talked to him in 20 years prior to his dying. My mother is alive, and I haven't talked to her in 15 years. And another reply from Moll. My dad tried a similar form of parental alienation on my siblings and I after my parents' divorce. He said my mom had taken

life insurance policies out on us and was plotting to murder us for the money. We were still in elementary school. My mom did have life insurance policies on us, but it would have been enough to cover funerals, not some big million dollar cash payout. Obviously, she did not murder us. Another reply from I am a solipsist. My ex-wife's mother did something like this. Kept telling her that her father would kill her and that he was controlled by the devil.

My ex-wife had clinical paranoia at like age six from it and was terrified of even seeing her father. The worst part was that her mother left her around a bunch of drug addicts so she could go bang her boyfriend. She got molested and when she reported it, not only did no one believe her, but out of nowhere the next day, the mom dropped her off at her father's house and disappeared for a number of years. The mom did the same thing years later when my ex-wife was 12, literally just walked out of the house and didn't come back. Fortunately, while my ex's father was literally schizophrenic and incredibly weird, he was a very good guy and as best of a father as he could be.

But it was after that second time that he got pissed enough to pay lawyers and investigators to remove any rights she had to custody. Our next replies from Gab Monte. My mom let my dad keep the house, and in the chaos of everything, did not prioritize getting her name off the mortgage. My dad foreclosed on the house just to spite her and her credit score. This foreclosure was on her credit from when I was ages 13 to 20, and I never knew it. We still did all of our activities.

Dance and cheer is not cheap. We went on one vacation every year and had a clean and safe house in a nice neighborhood. My mom budgeted like a boss and paid for everything on a debit card, brand new furniture, $1,500 dance team fees, and I even got a car when I turned We thrifted almost all of our clothes and hardly ever went out to eat, but I never felt the stress that she undoubtedly felt and carried by herself for that time. My mom rules. Our next reply is from October. This lady in her 40s goes through in vitro fertilization with her husband. The day the embryos were due to be implanted into her, she was served with divorce papers as well as a preliminary injunction on the usage of embryos. This bastard was asking for a ton of money to allow her to use the embryos. Due to her age, it might be her last chance to have kids. She has to think through it if she would pay and go ahead and have babies with a man like this or throw the embryos away. Not sure how you can get this cruel. Don't want to know. Our next

replies from new development. I'm not a lawyer, but I worked for a bank many years ago. I had a client come in because there was no money in her account. Her future ex had taken everything out of all of their accounts. He remorgeted the house and drained their credit so that she had no access to any money. He canceled her credit cards too. She had nothing. She was a stay-at-home mom and couldn't buy food for her two-year-old and eight-year-old. They were all still living in the same house together, and he would bring food home for himself, but nothing for anyone else. Beneath that, we have this story from Wehrlo Longas. My dad strangled me so hard, I saw stars.

And then he locked me in a room in our basement when my mom left him. I had to climb out a window because I genuinely thought he was going to off me. It's been like 15 years, and I still dream of him standing over me in my sleep. Our next replies from Be More Wiser. A divorce lawyer microwaved the opposing party's cat. Look it up. It happened in Maryland. And sure enough, someone provides the link.

The story goes, this lawyer represented his friend. And so the lawyer and the friend got drunk, drove to the ex-wife's house, and then this happened. During the break-in, the lawyer testified that he put the family's seven-month-old kitten, Max, into the microwave because it was underfoot and accidentally activated the microwave. The lawyer pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of breaking and entering and cruelty to animals and received a 15-month suspended jail sentence. He was ordered to get treatment for alcoholism. Our next reply is from Hind Durkle.

A dude who lived next door to me accepted a job on the opposite coast, moved his entire family, then resigned the new position as soon as they got there. Then he turned around and found an apartment back in my town, which is how I know about it, moved back and filed for divorce. When I asked him why he did that, he said he didn't want them around, and this was the cheapest way to get rid of them. Our next reply is from Sashi Dice.

Teacher here, I had a student a few years ago whose dad decided he wanted out, but didn't want to pay anything. It was a community property state, and he had convinced the mom to quit her very well-paying job to be a more present mom when the kids were little.

He cleaned out all the bank accounts, moved it all overseas into his parents' name and walked out. Left the mom holding the bag for the mortgage, the bills, the school tuition, everything, with empty accounts. She knuckled up, got a not-well-paying job, and started figuring things out. He tried to sell the house out from under her. Didn't work. He tried to sell her car.

Didn't work. She got security cameras, and they all ended up mysteriously shot up by an air rifle, but not a real gun so the cops wouldn't investigate. He started showing up at the house and screaming at them in the middle of the night from the street. She got a domestic violence protection order. He tried to pick the kids up from school. We obeyed the order and he punched a teacher in the face. Cops refused to charge him because he was provoked.

He started stalking the schoolhead for denying him his kids. Cops did nothing until he slashed her tires on camera. The divorce took two years. The mom never got her half of the savings. It was community property, but there was no proof that she hadn't consented to the gift to his family. The dad got joint custody. All of his actions proved that he was dedicated to his kids. Our next replies from Felicitous Solicitor.

I'm a divorce attorney for about 13 years, based outside of Philly. I had a client who lived in Ohio, had an 8-year-old son living with his mom in Pennsylvania. He got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Terminal, of course, only about a two-month timeline. The mother refused to let the kid visit the dad one last time before he passed away. Wouldn't even let the kid's older half-siblings pick him up for a weekend visit. We took it to court to try to force the mom's hand, and the judge's response blew my mind even more than the mom's obstinence. Per the judge, can't the kid just FaceTime Dad? I don't see what the big deal is with forcing mom to do something she doesn't want to do.

I left the courtroom feeling like I got dragged through the liquid garbage pit in Star Wars. The dad died a few weeks after the hearing without ever getting to say goodbye to his son and without his son getting any sense of closure. I don't think the mom even let him have the FaceTime call with his dad. I can only hope the kid is doing all right and has gotten all the therapy. For those wondering what the dad did to lose custody, the dad had primary custody after the mom's third driving under the influence conviction, which she actually did the mandatory minimum time for. The custody judge transferred the primary to mom upon her release because the dad stopped taking the kid from Ohio to Pennsylvania to visit mom in jail towards the tail end of her sentence. The kid was getting freaked out by the visits because mom was in full-blown withdrawal psychosis.

making insane promises about the future, totally age inappropriate conversations, etc. I am by no means a men's rights activist attorney, but this was a good guy and both he and his son got screwed by the system. Well, which of these stories is the most evil, you think? For me, it's either the guy who microwaved the cat or the mom who left the five-year-old daughter in the care of drug addicts. Nah, it's got to be the mom, right? That was our slash-ask Reddit, and if you like this, content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day.