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My wife left about a month ago and cleaned out all of our joint accounts. I was a widowed man with 2 boys ages 13 and 10 before I married her a year ago. My kids are mine, no adoption was ever done. She left a marriage to come to me and cleaned up in that marriage. She has her own seperate pre-marital money of over $300,000 in her name and I never asked to comingle that. However, what she did do was clean out 2 joint CD accounts totalling about 120k and our joint checking account of nearly 10k. One of the CDs was my children's college funds of $45,000 that had been saved from the their deceased mother's SSA survivor benefits. I'm at a loss here as to what I can get back. I have filed for divorce. She came back for a week at Christmas and then left after New Year's Day. What can I do?

My wife and I have split up. She has left and has acquired an apartment leaving me and my 18 year old daughter in our home. Over the last 2 years, I have spent about $60,000 from an inheritance on the house. If it comes down to a divorce, my wife has already stated I can have the house. Will the money spent on the home in the last 2 years be subtracted from what would be her share of the equity? Also, we have had seperate checking accounts for 10 years or more. I have been paying the house payment and all utilities. My wife does work and has her own accounts. She was just responsible for groceries. My 18 year old daughter wishes to remain with me. She will be going to college.

My wife is disabled and refuses to go to work. She is taking some college courses just to have something to do. Her parents pay ALL her household bills, have given her a house and a car; her parents pay her car insurance as well. Her parents also own a grocery store and provide her with all food and necessities to clean the house. If there is a problem in the home her parents pay for all repairs. We have been seperated for 6 months and she rarely lets me speak to our daughter even though I call every single night. She has called my work and told lies about my having an affair and not sending her any money. I have the written signed statements from the people she spoke to about this and she called back the same day admitting that what she said earlier was a lie. She has been harrassing my friends and co-workers with phone calls. Her phone bill, if subpeonaed will verify this. She went to the casino in January and won almost $500. When she told me about it she immediately asked me to send her $100 because she didn't have any money. I have proof from Wells Fargo Bank and Discover card that she took out a credit card in her name but gave them my checking account number to have the payments made by me. She was never and has never been granted access to this checking account. I have the written proof from Discover that she did this. All told $322.23 was deducted from my checking account between December 1 and January 15. I have bank statements to attest to this. Luckily, my bank refunded all the money back to my account. Based on this info what are the chances of my getting primary or sole custody of my daughter?