I just can't get over Alice's scorched earth approach. She has a prenup.
There is a court limit over child support payments. The more she denigrates him, the less he is likely to find work. He was a D list before she started all this, and now he is even lower down the pecking order with casting agents, and Reunion was a complete failure. If she wants custody she has to prove she can provide a stable home for her girls, financially, emotionally and physically. She has said she can't survive on the spousal and child support being proposed. So why is she not working. There are masses and masses of Vampire Diaries conferences and conventions. She has only attended one - and left early, apparently after being upset she couldn't get back to her children (in her own words). But she hasn't been accepted for any others. This says the following: either 1. the conferences don't want her and won't hire her 2. she hasn't tried to find work with conferences.
Either way, she knows she has rent coming up, but has not, over the 3 years since the marriage broke up, tried to re-train as far as we know. She could have retrained as an Estate Agent or a foreign language teacher (which would not have taken much time due to her existing degree). She has used the SAG strike publicly as a reason why she can't work (see Mrs Hilfiger post), but was able to work during the strike on conferences. Yet hasn't signed up for any further conferences. She says she will be out of money and the children will be homeless by Christmas, which is INCREDIBLY problematic for the children's future schooling and emotional and physical stability.
She doesn't understand she can no longer be the victim. Her ability to look after herself and her children is SOLELY on her as primary custodian, taking into account the amount of spousal and child support she is entitled to, and what she has overspent against what the prenup set out. She is an adult, who is responsible for her children while she will not allow them access to their father. She can't argue victim. She needs to show she CAN look after her children. If she can't, they will be moved from her custody. Simple.