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Judge finds forged mortgage, orders financial awards to wife after divorce hearing
Summary
In a contested divorce case, the judge found evidence of forgery and financial misconduct by the husband, awarded the wife multiple monetary credits and ordered a net judgment against the husband to be paid from his share of the house sale proceeds.
A judge hearing post-decree matters in a contested divorce found evidence of financial misconduct and forgery by the husband and entered a suite of financial awards to the wife tied to retirement withdrawals, retroactive child support, medical bills and a fraudulently obtained mortgage.
The case arose from long-running marital and financial disputes between the parties. The court detailed several problematic acts attributed to the husband on the record: prior embezzlement and check-counting schemes admitted in testimony, the withdrawal of retirement funds without the wife’s knowledge, and the court’s finding that a third mortgage on the marital home was obtained fraudulently by forging the wife’s signature and notarizing it without proper authorization. The judge said those acts undercut the…
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