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What's Happening at the Courthouse: An ex-wife who won't pay maintenance · "What's happening at the Courthouse?" with Rameez Khan

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  Speaker 1: Is where it ends.
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  Speaker 2: For all, court is where it begins.
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  Speaker 3: They say, no TV show, this is the real world.
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  Speaker 4: And this is what's happening at the courthouse.
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  Speaker 3: On KFM Mornings with Remis.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, added Weinberg Courthouse yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, this is where Amis.
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  Speaker 2: Patrols outside and asks everybody one simple question, what.
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  Speaker 5: Are you doing at the courthouse today?
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  Speaker 6: We had a house robbery in twenty twenty three suspects
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  Speaker 6: were court let out on bail, so when we had
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  Speaker 6: to appear for the first court hearing, obviously they didn't
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  Speaker 6: show up so to be re arrested. So we've got
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  Speaker 6: another quartering and today we've got another postponement, and to
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  Speaker 6: my surprise, they're letting some of them go free. See yep,
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  Speaker 6: they're letting some off on warning who've got pending cases all.
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  Speaker 7: Over the place.
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  Speaker 5: No, no thing makes sense.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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  Speaker 6: So they'll just carry on doing what they're doing and
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  Speaker 6: then hopefully they'll show up on the second.
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  Speaker 5: How many guys are there?
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  Speaker 2: Four?
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  Speaker 5: And omni are they letting three one?
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  Speaker 7: For sure?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if the others are going to be
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  Speaker 6: staying custody until the second.
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  Speaker 5: But what is the reason for them for letting them
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  Speaker 5: let this person three is.
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  Speaker 7: They've not been found guilty of anything.
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  Speaker 6: I say, they've not been found guilty because you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're still pending judgment from the court. And then they
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  Speaker 6: have the audacity to say, if I don't show up
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  Speaker 6: for the second, then they're going to arrest me.
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  Speaker 8: What.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but you're a witness and it happened to you.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, they broke They cut through the fence and broken
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  Speaker 6: to them from no men.
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  Speaker 4: You yeah, I know, give me, give me one second
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  Speaker 4: year just to.
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  Speaker 5: Just to like this. They told you that if you
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  Speaker 5: don't come.
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  Speaker 6: Up, they'll issue warrant for the rest for me and
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  Speaker 6: the ad T gard who actually apprehended them.
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  Speaker 4: And what you got to say, no is what it
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  Speaker 4: is now, it is not what it is which just happened.
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  Speaker 4: And then they might even just say no bail for you,
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  Speaker 4: because you what is this word flight risk?
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  Speaker 7: I have a passport team.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter. That's not the point. Where are these
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  Speaker 5: other three.
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  Speaker 7: Guys now they're still inside.
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  Speaker 6: Now they're letting one or two of them off on warning,
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  Speaker 6: hoping that they'll show up on the second.
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  Speaker 4: Like letting them off like go out, you get you're unbailed.
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  Speaker 4: Now you can walk the streets, not even bail warning,
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  Speaker 4: a warning? Did they catch them on the same day?
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  Speaker 6: Like, yeah, the act in the night, your neighborhood watching
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  Speaker 6: adyt Okay, it co operated.
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  Speaker 5: Right, and then obviously police came along.
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  Speaker 7: The act with the goods that they took.
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  Speaker 4: Why are they taking so long two years later to
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  Speaker 4: three years almost to get rid of the.
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  Speaker 7: Wheels of justice turned slowly? Clearly?
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  Speaker 6: How do you feel about that little disenfranchised? I served
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  Speaker 6: in the military and that's that's the reason I left
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  Speaker 6: because of things operate. So yeah, I can't understand how
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  Speaker 6: you can let it go off on warning. Who's got
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  Speaker 6: multieveral pending trials?
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  Speaker 5: Okay? What is the next court date now?
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  Speaker 7: Second of Jude, don't forget that. I've just put it
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  Speaker 7: in my diary.
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  Speaker 5: You better you don't show up, you get locked up.
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  Speaker 7: Correct.
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  Speaker 6: It's a major problem with our system where they let
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  Speaker 6: people out on bail the world career criminals.
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  Speaker 7: It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 4: He so all the best, Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 4: your time. Thanks for your time, teers man. What are
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  Speaker 4: you doing at the courthouse today?
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  Speaker 8: I am applying for a maintenance order to get a
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  Speaker 8: maintenance from my ex wife.
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  Speaker 4: So that is a bit of a strange situation because
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  Speaker 4: always I'm getting females that are applying for maintenance.
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  Speaker 5: Why is that?
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  Speaker 9: It's just the way the divorce worked outs.
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  Speaker 8: The agreement in the divorce was that she would have
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  Speaker 8: a year to get on her feet, get a job,
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  Speaker 8: make some income, and then she needs to start contributing
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  Speaker 8: to the to the children. I've got three children and
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  Speaker 8: are pay for everything, and she's got to start contributing.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, And then what is the court saying, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like are they allowing that?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I just got to do an application, I see, and
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  Speaker 8: the divorce documents stipulate that she has to contribute what
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  Speaker 8: she going to afford. I've tried to do it with
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  Speaker 8: her personally, amicably, but she won't produce any form of
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  Speaker 8: proof of what she's earning. She's saying she's not earning X,
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  Speaker 8: so she can't contribute, but she's supposed to prove it.
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  Speaker 9: So the only way I'm going to be able to
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  Speaker 9: get proved is through the courts.
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  Speaker 8: So instead of trying to just do it and look,
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  Speaker 8: I'm earning X, my rent is X. What she's told me,
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  Speaker 8: and I know what it is because I've had to
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  Speaker 8: help a pay Wow, you know my kids are staying
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  Speaker 8: there again to say, I know what her overheads are.
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  Speaker 8: And if she just shows me, bank says, then I
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  Speaker 8: can go okay, cool, you can't contribute?
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  Speaker 5: Is she working now? She is?
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  Speaker 8: And she got paid out nearly a million rand. What
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  Speaker 8: she got nearly paid out a million round in the divorce.
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  Speaker 8: She's blown through all the money, paid her out a
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  Speaker 8: car in the divorce. I don't know what she's done
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  Speaker 8: with the money. So this is the way we've got
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  Speaker 8: to go.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what to say to you.
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  Speaker 8: At least I can go to the court and get something,
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  Speaker 8: whether it's five hundred round, one thousand round, whatever she
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  Speaker 8: can afford.
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  Speaker 9: She needs to start contributing.
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  Speaker 5: Where's the milliona then you gave her in the divorce,
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  Speaker 5: little men and.
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  Speaker 9: Spent it on wolvers?
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  Speaker 8: Oh wow, okay, I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I didn't ask questions. I can't ask questions.
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  Speaker 5: And I was the visiting rights.
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  Speaker 9: Like seven days with me, seven days with her?
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  Speaker 4: I see s's one week, one week okay, okay, and
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  Speaker 4: you have you moved on with your.
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  Speaker 8: Life slowly, but surely I didn't want the divorce. There
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  Speaker 8: was an affair, she committed an affair. But slowly it's
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  Speaker 8: been a year so the healing has been good. I've
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  Speaker 8: been doing the work on myself.
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  Speaker 9: It's not easy.
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  Speaker 8: I was with her for fifteen years. Wow, so and
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  Speaker 8: my kids are three, five, and seven. Came out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 8: Generally I thought we had a happy marriage, but I was.
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  Speaker 5: Still with this guy. Then it wasn't even worth it.
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  Speaker 9: Men, Yeah, you know, I made a stupid mistake. Men,
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  Speaker 9: of pause is probably adding to.
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  Speaker 4: It, and she's saying that she doesn't have money to
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  Speaker 4: bay maintenance.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not allowed to ask those questions and don't want
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  Speaker 8: to answer those questions.
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  Speaker 9: It's just a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: Then I get too involved, and then I get told
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  Speaker 8: that I'm trying to control, or then I get too
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  Speaker 8: attached emotionally, and then I want to help because I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 9: So rather just don't ask those questions.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, to be honest with you, I feel for you, men,
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  Speaker 4: and I hope that the courts you can would be
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  Speaker 4: able to help you.
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  Speaker 5: So all the best. Thank you very much for your time.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like a good guy, but you're on a defendant,
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  Speaker 2: a ex wife defendant b woolworths.
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  Speaker 5: Wool Worth catching strays.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as someone who's both fought for women's rights
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes women's wrongs, I cannot support how wrong that
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  Speaker 1: woman is. Seems to just be in a very selfish phase.
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  Speaker 5: At the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to make the dude hurt you.
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  Speaker 9: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, blowing through millions, not wanting to contribute for
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  Speaker 1: the kids, not showing.
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  Speaker 2: Up and you know, and it's the thing is, she
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  Speaker 2: was the one that cheated, so you know what it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't It's not like she wants to pay him back
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  Speaker 2: for something he did. I know he has a message
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  Speaker 2: yet quickly that lady must have spent that Berlin ran
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  Speaker 2: on Woody's vows.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's so often where people now suddenly
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  Speaker 3: have access to amounts of money they not used to
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  Speaker 3: and they blow it. I'm sure even if you asked her,
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  Speaker 3: chances are she trying.
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  Speaker 2: To tell you how she blew that money. No, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know it talks about the evers. For me, it's
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  Speaker 2: the watermelon cut in such neat six pieces.
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  Speaker 5: You and the love affair with the watermelon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I'm on a watermelon Finch. It's like
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  Speaker 2: it's like a it's a meal and a drink.
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  Speaker 5: All advice, Darren.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, where when you.
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  Speaker 4: Blow your millions and it falls watermelon ic tangles?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me REMI I club the pips and alice. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And then I see a whole
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  Speaker 2: watermelon there and no, I'm not planning that thing. So
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  Speaker 2: you said, James, you can cut your fingers off of
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  Speaker 2: the watermelon whatever? Right now? Do you know what you're saying?
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  Speaker 1: You understand the woman and her decision.
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  Speaker 2: Making, absolutely not at all on her side. I just
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  Speaker 2: understand how quickly you can blow through that money. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hey hey Papa, sure there's a lot there. All right,
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  Speaker 2: we'll wait for your comments now on wait two nine
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  Speaker 2: four five zero nine four zero KFE mornings. Good job, Remis,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you really much. Six minutes to eight o'clock. Prank
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  Speaker 2: coming up in about fifteen minutes time. Your comments from
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  Speaker 2: what's happening at the courthouse with ramis, Oh, just.
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  Speaker 6: The system is so based up and this is.
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  Speaker 7: Why people think into their own hands.
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  Speaker 2: Just a nice story with that robbery.
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  Speaker 9: Have heard of cases like that before? Car hasat free?
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  Speaker 5: Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 9: In the victims are being sued if they don't show up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry that first guy gave up. The justice
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  Speaker 2: system just does an out person, they say, and the
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  Speaker 2: second guy.
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  Speaker 1: They always think it's the days, it's always the furthest
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes it's.
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  Speaker 3: The monster men divorces. She's loving our best life and
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  Speaker 3: limit all your menopause brothers.
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  Speaker 5: Got nothing to.
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  Speaker 4: Do with it.
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  Speaker 5: You'd be thinking you'd be out here thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: Your children, especially at that end of age.
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  Speaker 3: Nah, she must the court must demand that document so
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  Speaker 3: that she can start contributing.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be out yellowing your best life. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 4: She had an affair and you still had to give
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  Speaker 4: her a million.
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  Speaker 2: That's wild.
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  Speaker 1: I'm learning so much from home robberies where the victims
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  Speaker 1: can now also end up in jail to you know,
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  Speaker 1: divorce proceedings.
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  Speaker 2: Where the victim becomes the villain.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're not obliged to take care of your kids.
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  Speaker 3: A light happening at the courts.
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  Speaker 2: He Sometimes you feel like you're like, where do I
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  Speaker 2: turn for help? Eh?
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  Speaker 1: Because really, the courts aren't possibly your last resort.
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  Speaker 2: And let me tell you the reality is, you want
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  Speaker 2: to take somebody to the hard court. Hard court is
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  Speaker 2: generally if you say it's a civil case and you're
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  Speaker 2: taking somebody for over four hundred thousand ran, then then
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  Speaker 2: it goes to the High Court. Right you do lodge
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  Speaker 2: that today with your lawyer, four or five years time,
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  Speaker 2: it will see a court room five years time. Like
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  Speaker 2: I say, you know, the wills have justice turned very slowly.
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  Speaker 2: By that time you've forgotten the detail. You're over. It
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  Speaker 2: moves on. You know, lawyer's fees are in the millions already.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, like I say, the cheapest lawyer is compromise.
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  Speaker 2: But that lady ain't compromising. She's just blown all the cash. Yeah, okay,