I am a resident of Oregon and was divorced here in Oct. 2003. A couple of years prior to my divorce I began a regimen of medications to treat myself for Hepatitis c. One of the major side effects of this medication can be severe depression which I slowly slipped into. To cut to the chase what happened is when the date of our divorce hearing came I showed up but without an attorney. I am not a stupid man and up until this treatment I was quite successful and owned two separate business’s. Might credit scores could not be higher. All of that went down the tubes along with my whole purpose of self. I didn’t show up with a lawyer because I was “doomed” no matter what I did. Laying on my couch was how I treated my disability. My question is that because of my diminished capacity is there any chance of a do-over? Needless to say I got creamed in court. Within two months of this proceeding I was granted almost full disability from the V.A. (80%) for my depression and within the next fourteen months after going through all the hoops I was also granted full disability from social security. In the next few days there will be a dispersal of funds from a commercial piece of property I owned and bought with pre-marriage money I had saved. This represents pretty much everything I spent the last twenty years working for and the split is heavily tilted in her favor. Am I just screwed?
