42-year-old asks wife to help fund stepdaughter’s college despite the separate finances agreement he proposed when they got married, and gets upset when she refuses – FAIL Blog

At one point, his logic gets genuinely creative. He reframes the original agreement to mean that the separation was designed to protect his daughter FROM his wife, not to protect his wife FROM his daughter’s expenses. That is a remarkable pivot. The clause meant to shield one person’s money becomes, through sheer interpretive effort, an implied obligation for the other person to contribute to that same fund’s shortfall. Legal scholars are probably not studying this case, but they should be.