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Copped equity breakfast but wife is fighting me on capital buy-in
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Date: July 1st, 2026 11:56 AM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions The capital contribution is about $1m. Wife has been sucked into the cult of Dave Ramsey and can't understand what the money is for. She thinks I should remain an income partner because the money would “grow faster” in a mutual fund.
I could finance it but she's terrified she'd be “on the hook” for the note if something happens with us. I told her that's not how it works, but she's demanding some sort of explicit guarantee in writing that if we get divorced or I die they don't come after her for it.
I could just pay for it out of my personal funds, but that's so unfair. I put my own money toward her businesses, but she says that having that much already invested in our own businesses is exactly why it isn't prudent to make a capital contribution to get equity.
Did anyone else run into this? I'm embarrassed to ask my partners their experience.
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:00 PM Author: Shema Yisrael divorce her? whyd you marry a dullard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973556) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:02 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions Aside from the fact that I love my wife and do not want my kids to be children of divorce, this would cost me more than just using my personal funds. Are you Jewish my man? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973560) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:02 PM Author: right to push back DESCRIBE “her” “businesses” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973559) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:04 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions She runs a modeling agency and an event planning business (mostly services events for the industry). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973562) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:19 PM Author: right to push back Do you ever get to meet any of the models or personally service any industry titans? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973594) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:42 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions We do engage is some debauchery... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973625) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:30 PM Author: Shema Yisrael thats one expensive whore! (just ask cslg) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973712) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:40 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions I don't force her and cheat on the side like that rat faced kike. She's more into it than I am and always is the one suggesting it with some person she knows. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973750) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 2:10 PM Author: Debunked antisemitic trope Uck. This is something cslg would make Kenny or chandler post (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973812) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 2:15 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions I don't poast or brag about it, someone asked. And aren't you a literal fag? I doubt I've been more debaucherous than you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973828) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 2:29 PM Author: ...,....,,........ GO on... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973855) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:51 PM Author: gaetan dugas i love that every woman in my neighborhood has the exact same made up fake jobs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973771) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:53 PM Author: total lawyer genocide (🧐) when i was a young tutor in marin county i met no fewer than three (3) wives who ran bead stores. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973777) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:57 PM Author: gaetan dugas my childhood neighborhood were all "interior designers" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973785) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Richard Ames I have no idea what is flame and what is real anymore. Starting to think that ranting about scamilio and his gang of scamdadim is the only thing that is truly real on a deeper level. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973600) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:37 PM Author: Nazca Redlines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973731) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:24 PM Author: ......,,,,,,........, Have you tried explaining that Dave Ramsey is great advice for poor people? But seriously, why not just give her an “agreement” (? Enforceable) that she won’t be on the hook for the debt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973610) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:28 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions This isn't a bad idea. It certainly wouldn't be enforcable but I've never heard of bank coming after someone for an capital buy in loan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973706) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 12:43 PM Author: crime lord $1 million to buy in seems high. what do you expect your draw to be over the next few years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973626) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:26 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions I'm anticipating about $1.5m, and my book should explode shortly because one guys with the biggest book isn't long for this world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973702) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:30 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i know some lawyers who copped the breakfast and signed $500k notes, and the firm went BK about nine months later. as it turns out, there's not a lot of defenses on a note other than "i already paid it," and there's even fewer defenses that a BK Trustee will countenance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973714) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:35 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions Only way my firm goes bankrupt is some ITE x5. I'm not worried about the contribution or the note, just annoyed my wife in insisting it come out of my own money when we share joint expanses and I make 1000x more than her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973727) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:53 PM Author: gaetan dugas "Only way my firm goes bankrupt is some ITE x5"
tbf we are 100% due for this |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 2:28 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions I agree actually. But if a V20 to suddenly went bankrupt the global conditions would be in serious shit and my capital buy in loan would be the least of my worries. Plus being equity means it's very unlikely I'd get Latham'd
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:36 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Congrats. Big law? How long have you been in?
On your issue: you need to just pay the buy in however makes the most sense (your marital funds, a loan). Explaining it to your wife or giving her a document that says liability associated with it is yours alone are secondary. |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:53 PM Author: autistic queer ((zurich is stained)) personal injury in the (not really deep) south (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973779) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 2:05 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions We keep seperate accounts and split our income between them. We're supposed to pay major household expenses equally. But jefore we did that I funded her business out of what was once our joint accoint. So, it seems very unfair to pay for this completely out of my account. But I can already see that's likely what's going to happen. FML. Happy wife, happy life I guess.
Edit: Biglaw and about to hit 15 yesrs |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:46 PM Author: that buzz, that bling, that smile She’s right - AI will destroy your firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973760) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 1:49 PM Author: autistic queer ((zurich is stained)) oh wait, lol, bow tie niggas IS spaceporn.
listen, you need to just tell her what your decision is and fucking leave it at that. if she has a problem with it, she has a problem with it. worst thing you can do is try to take a stand on this issue and then back down once she breaks your balls over it.
haven't you already been an equity partner for at least a year? |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 2:09 PM Author: Bow tie niggas always have very strong opinions Boy you sure are one retarded kike. Spaceporn outed you and Gujerreddit and you mock his investigative work, and now you're sperging accusing me of being him. Why are all kikes such shameless hypocrites? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973809) |
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Date: July 1st, 2026 2:13 PM Author: autistic queer ((zurich is stained)) 👍 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878945&forum_id=2,5#49973824) |