I didn’t respond to the pictures. I simply forwarded them to my lawyer and told her, “He says he can’t afford four years of support, but apparently he can afford all of this.” She asked me to send screenshots with the dates visible. I did. Two days later, she called and said the state had already opened a review of his reported income and assets. Apparently, he’d been claiming he had no reliable income while publicly showing off purchases that didn’t exactly support that story.
Then my lawyer found something else. The house wasn’t just new—it had been purchased through a company registered in his name. The truck had been financed shortly afterward, and the boat was paid for in cash. He’d spent years telling the court he couldn’t find work, while somehow accumulating enough money to make three major purchases within the same year. My lawyer said the photos alone weren’t proof of everything, but they were enough to make investigators start asking where the money had come from.
He called me that night for the first time in almost a year. He said I was trying to ruin his life and that the pictures were “just social media.” I told him I hadn’t ruined anything. I hadn’t even called him. The state had simply started looking at the same numbers he’d been asking everyone else to believe. A week later, a notice arrived requiring him to provide financial records going back four years. I put it in a folder and never answered another call. He’d spent four years saying he had nothing to give our children. One weekend of showing off proved he had plenty to explain.
