Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”
Wendy Davis said that as a lawyer, she contributed too.
“I was a vibrant part of contributing to our family finances from the time I graduated to the time we separated in 2003,” she said. “The idea that suddenly there was this instantaneous departure after Jeff had partnered so beautifully with me in putting me through school is just absurd.”
In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part and conflicts that the couple could not overcome. The final court decree makes no mention of infidelity, granting the divorce solely “on the ground of insupportability.”
That happens all the time. It's more difficult to prove adultery, so those claims are dropped at trial; the case then proceeds on simpler grounds because both sides want to get divorced.
Seems to me that most of this will make her an even bigger liberal hero. Blind ambition, check. Make someone else pay for school, check. Dump the “no good” guy who supported her, after she made him drain HIS retirement account, check. Also got rid of the kids (sort of a post-partem abortion), check. Let nothing, not even family, get in the way of what “I” want, check. So she gets all of the benefit with none of the baggage. She just guaranteed herself a sizeable share of the “Girls” vote.