She would for sure demand that her child be enrolled in a French private school and threaten to ruin his life if he didn’t pay up for extortionate child support (I personally know a woman who uses her daughter’s child support payments to get her hair colored and maintained and manicure/pedicure once every couple of months) and private school tuition (the same woman demands that her daughter’s father pay for private school through the last year of university, cried and threw a fit when he didn’t have enough money while he was in school and working part-time, and got a pro bono lawyer to threaten to throw him in prison for not paying up for the private school tuition he couldn’t afford. He finally had to take two part-time jobs and take out a personal loan just to avoid jail and finish school... his daughter’s only 8 now, 14 more years of this to go...) until the kid’s done with law school 25 years later.
ETA: they never even wanted a child, but when they were finalizing their divorce, this daughter was the result of a last-ditch effort by her mom to try to hang onto the guy. He fell for it, and now he’s paying through the roof for the mom’s every demand for 25 years because she goes to court and throws a tantrum every couple of years when her new demands are denied. The courts always side (it’s happened at least a handful of times by now from what I hear) with her because there is a streak of empathy in our culture for single moms. She’s not a friend, just know her through the dad, who is a family friend. I was a single mom, and I always refused to take advantage of the system and the father. Which is why people like her rub me the wrong way.
Believe it or not, two other friends of my husband are also going through this with their respective ex-wives. A 6 yo daughter and an infant boy were both results of those two moms trying to hang onto their husbands. Those ex-husbands are now also paying for it. The one with the 6 yo daughter who he loves more than anything and would die for, her mom tells the daughter every day how evil the dad is (he is the kindest, most generous man in the world), and forces her to tell him that “she would be ok if he wasn’t in her life anymore” at the end of every weekend when he drops her back home. She’s 6. He told us he cries himself to sleep almost every night. Not all single moms are angels, and I feel like Ginette and Elle are in this cohort...
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, her new bags and clothes. No wonder she can afford to live the way she does. My accountant friend mentioned that there's even a chance that she gets money from the government because of the expenses
