History Main / DivorceAssetsConflict

* In ''[[Film/StarTrek Star Trek (2009)]]'', [=McCoy=] tells Kirk that his ex-wife took everything from him when she divorced him.

* Some divorce lawyers ''encourage'' the "Take him for all he's worth" behavior, one in Pennsylvania even erecting a gigantic billboard made to look like a Pennsylvania license plate with the custom tag "WAS HIS" on it.

Every time there's a divorce in media, the individuals involved never decide to handle it in a sane, rational manner. They always decide to make the couple as petty, vindictive and spiteful as possible, in a "Who Can Hurt The Other The Most?"-style contest. God help us all if they have children, or worse, one is TheFavorite.

->"She's taking everything. She's taking the house, she's taking the kid, she's taking the dog. IT'S NOT EVEN HER DOG. IT'S MY DOG! SHE'S TAKING . . . MY DOG!"
->-- '''Lewis Nixon''', ''Series/{{Band of Brothers}}''

* ''TheWarOfTheRoses'' is about an escalating war over marital assets between Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas that get's taken to [[BlackComedy a ridiculous and tragic extreme]].

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* How is [[StarTrek Leonard 'Bones' McCoy]] not on this page yet? As he put it himself in the reboot, "...the ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones."

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-->"She's taking everything. She's taking the house, she's taking the kid, she's taking the dog. IT'S NOT EVEN HER DOG. IT'S MY DOG! SHE'S TAKING . . . MY DOG!"
-->- '''Lewis Nixon''', ''Series/{{Band of Brothers}}''

* In Robert Altman's film ''ShortCuts'', a husband facing an impending messy divorce sawed every piece of furniture in two.

** Yet another episode had a couple engaged in a highly publicized ''War Of The Roses''-esque conflict become the suspects in a murder. Though they had nothing to do with it, eventually they did momentarily set aside their differences to murder a divorce attorney scamming them both. The team busts them for the latter thanks to the help of their son: when asked why he decided to turn in his own parents, he replies that they fought tooth and nail over their material possessions...[[LonelyRichKid but not once over him.]]

-->- '''Lewis Nixon''', ''{{Band of Brothers}}''

-->- '''Lewis Nixon''', ''Band of Brothers''

-->- Lewis Nixon, '''Band of Brothers'''

* Some lawyers ENCOURAGE the "Take him for all he's worth" behavior, one in Pennsylvania even erecting a gigantic billboard made to look like a Pennsylvania license plate with the custom tag "WAS HIS" on it.

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* The "literally dividing all the assets by cutting them in half " thing actually happened between a Cambodian couple in 2004 when they cut their house in half rather than let the other one have the whole thing.

* ''The War of the Roses'' is about an escalating war over marital assets between Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas that get's taken to [[BlackComedy a ridiculous and tragic extreme]].
* This happens in the Cary Grant/ Irene Dunne film ''The Awful Truth'', with a custody battle over a dog!

* In Robert Altman?s film ''Short Cuts'', a husband facing an impending messy divorce sawed every piece of furniture in two.
* In the movie ''{{Enchanted}}'', when we first meet Robert the divorce lawyer, he is with a divorcing couple who is arguing over who gets to keep a Hank Aaron rookie card.

** The line itself is likely a reference to [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Kings%203:16-26&version=NLT 1 Kings 3:16-28]], which is about the custody of a child, but not in the context of divorce.