Lawyers Share the Most Chaotic Divorces They’ve Ever Seen

Deals with the devil

Failed exorcisms.

Client had an inner ear condition that caused chronic vertigo, but symptoms could be treated with medication. Husband was an evangelical who was convinced his wife:

1. Had become possessed, and that her vertigo were evidence of demonic possession.
2. The medications she was taking were enabling the devil to hide inside her .
3. The only proper recourse was exorcism. He would hide her meds until she got dizzy and then try various methods of exorcism.

This included:

1. Sweating it out — He put her under blankets while incapacitated and locked her in an overheated room.
2. Freezing it out — pretty much the reverse with AC, fans and bags of ice.
3. Surprising it out — he would jump out and scare her like it was the hiccups, but instead of yelling “Boo!” he would recite the Lord’s Prayer or Psalms.

The final straw was that he tried to “surprise it out of her” by pushing her down the stairs when they were heading out for dinner.

The final, final straw was when he spent thousands of dollars to have a priest come and try to do an exorcism for real.

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