The series of medical events caused a downward financial spiral for both petitioner and intervenor.

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But it lands a persuasive intervenor in the case to help the leagues.

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Petitioner testified that he did not review the joint bank account statements and that intervenor primarily handled the finances and balanced the joint checking account, an assertion uncontested by intervenor.

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Petitioner admits that he and intervenor discussed the possibility of obtaining a loan from her retirement account but states that he was unaware that she had actually obtained a distribution from her retirement account.

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He alleges that although he maintained a joint checking account with intervenor, she primarily wrote the checks drawn on the joint account and that he wrote checks drawn on the joint account only when he was instructed to do so by intervenor.

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Robin can get back into the act to argue that Terry really should be paying some of the tax in which case Robin will be called the intervenor. (Terry will be calling Robin something else, but it would be unwise for me to repeat that.) On to the case, where I can start using third person pronouns.

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