Extreme cases sometimes can highlight what is going on throughout the
system, even in more routine cases. This is one of those extreme cases.
Clearly, this woman wants to use her son as a profit center, and is seeking
to fasten on the increased income produced by her former husband's talents
as a mechanism for extorting more money from him. The money has nothing to
do with the son's needs.

Alas, this woman will no doubt find some judge who thinks that the
former Mrs. Mortensen should share in the income produced by her
ex-husband's talents.

As I write this, there's a TV program in progress about a high-profile
divorce involving two people in a similar situation. The husband, a Miami
lawyer called Rose, made all the money, and his wife wanted to get a
substantial cut of it.

When I see these situations, the question in my mind always is: why
would any man with any money-making talents lay himself open to this
treatment by getting married in the first place? And the amazing thing is
that Mrs. Rose, now divorced, has found ANOTHER idiotic man who has married
her.


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Viggo's ex sues for more child support
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Big News Network.com Wednesday 16th June, 2004

Hollywood actor Viggo Mortensen's ex-wife has reportedly asked a Los
Angeles judge to increase child support payments for their son from $3,000
to $18,000 a month.

In papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last month, Christine
Edge said she needs the money to cover expenses such as computers, trips,
tutoring and car insurance for their 16-year-old son, TheSmokingGun Web
site
has reported.

The couple's 1998 divorce agreement required Mortensen to pay $3,000
in monthly support, however, his former spouse is demanding more now that
his acting career has skyrocketed with a starring role in the blockbuster
Lord of the Rings trilogy, which earned him more than $3.3 million last
year.


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