Reply #12: And the knees jerk

[Stevenmarc]

From that snippet of information I doubt anyone here is qualified to make an assessment of asshole'edness. Certainly no one here has the slightest clue on the childrens ability to to deal with this situation that decision is best left up to the custodial parent until a court says otherwise.

Personally I can't blame a father of 3 young children for divorcing his wife under these circumstances especially with the health-care situation, in this country, it was in the best interest of the family to financially separate. With that said should he be going after her settlement, well here again we don't have the information to make that assessment, if in the course of coming up with a settlement figure the children were part of that calculation then yes he has a right to ask for support, if it wasn't well good luck with that.