Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Jimmy L. Verner, Jr. of Dallas (Koons, Fuller & Vanden Eykel), these excerpts from his deposition of the wife in a divorce case - where Jimmy is doing the best to "try to root out all the fault in the break-up of the marriage."

Q. Could you please tell me what he's done to ruin your marriage?

A. Okay. He was drinking heavily. I felt like that since this is his third marriage that he has some emotional problems with stability and commitment. And I felt like his mother has blackmailed him. She has taken him out of her will until he divorces me.

Q. When you say he's emotionally unstable, can you give me an example of his emotional instability?

A. Him wanting a divorce from me.

Q. Any other examples of being emotionally unstable?

A. Him divorcing his first wife. I met her and she's a lovely lady.
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Q. Any other examples of being emotionally unstable?

A. He didn't like for me to fold his underwear and put it in the drawer. I would - when I'd do the laundry, he just wanted to get dressed out of the dryer. And he would - I'd fold his clothes and put it -

Q. In your mind, that shows emotional instability?

A. That he would criticize me for folding it and putting it in the chest.

Q. Any other example of emotional instability?

A. No.

Full post as published by Say What! on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).