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Our French Life

The Divorce Diaries – Part III

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Okay, so this one I think may be the most helpful and hopefully I won’t digress too much but I can’t promise anything. Once we have the practicalities out of the way, we can move onto what I’ve been up to since I last wrote this blog regularly.

Spoiler alert – it will include the catalogue of house issues I had from my ex’s ‘workmanship’ which also included a touch of carbon monoxide poisoning, mains water leaks, 100mm pipes going into 40mm pipes at a right angle, a septic tank that simply ended with a pipe going into some shingle and lots of bloopers besides all of which, probably cost me in the region of €20,000 to repair. The flip side of this, is that I now have a little black book of excellent and reliable trades that I can call upon.

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Our French Life

How To Get A Divorce In France Part II

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So, if you haven’t already done so please go back to Part I or not. Up to you! So I left you on collating evidence and without further ado we shall look at the next steps to be taken.

Initially my ex would email me various shit settlement options which were all heavily weighted in his favour #shocker. At the time, I was volunteering at the Resto du Coeur, one of the many things I did during that separation year to improve my French. In addition going on a 4 month intensive GRETA language course which I was not allowed to do prior to the divorce.

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