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Okay. Good evening, guys. Welcome. Um, today I'm going to talk to you about what divorce attorneys don't want you to know. And as a family law attorney with over a decade of experience now in family law, which seems crazy to me, I have a lot to talk about when it comes to divorce litigations and what attorneys do and do not do for their clients during the process. So, let's get into it.
So the first thing to know is that many of the colleagues that I encounter on a regular basis are very motivated to move cases forward and stay out of court. I have a lot of really great people that I work with on a regular basis. Um, I'm in Santa Clara County, but I work with attorneys in all different counties at times. And um, but it's important to know that there's always going to be um a couple attorneys that approach things from a very litigious meaning they are, you know, filing a lot of motions or not necessarily engaging in settlement discussions or not proactively encouraging their client to engage in those types of discussions. Also very common.
So, let me stop there. Okay. So, my opinion on that, uh, and my experience on that, I probably agree with her. Um, it really depends how much money you've got. That that's my honest opinion here. If there's a lot of, uh, net worth, you know, you know, assets, cash, um, pensions, you know, whatever you may have that makes up a big asset pool to be carved up. Then you're going to have, uh, one or more of the lawyers, attorneys, solicitors, whatever you want to call them, wherever you live, uh, they're going to be having a crack at it and they're going to start getting very, they're going to start encouraging the parties to be, uh, acrimonious, to start arguments because they know they're going to get paid. So if they start, they start, start arguments, they start, um, filling their client's heads, uh, with, you should have this and you should get this, then they can start racking up the billable hours. You know, if the person doesn't have a lot of money and it's a short, quick, and quick and dirty divorce, they're going to try and push it through because there's nothing to gain. I think about it in terms of say, a real estate agent. Real estate agents are motivated to try and push through a sale as quick as possible because that's how they get their commission. And only if it's a really, uh, well sought after asset or high value property that they'll, you know, drag it out to get the right money because if it's a huge sale, huge commission, etc. Same more or less applies to family lawyers. Now, I'm not sure how it works in other jurisdictions in Australia. To my understanding, obviously, I've only been through one divorce process. Uh, the fee is contingent just on hours accrued, not as opposed to a percentage of of of a settlement. I don't know. You guys put in the comments if you've experienced anything different or heard anything different. Uh, I've had people comment, uh, my videos that it was done by almost like a finder's, finder's fee, like a success fee as well. Very interesting. But anyone who's going through that right now, uh, I can tell you right now, I'm feeling for you because regardless if it was your choice, uh, or not, most of the time with men, it generally isn't. But whether it was your choice or not, very, very hard thing to go through. It is going to be one of the most stressful experiences you really ever go through, uh, in your life. One of the most stressful experiences you go through in your life. And why is that? Because your whole future's on the line. Um, you may have, um, you know, been very diligent, saved money, invested money, maybe built a business, bought a property, all that sort of stuff. Now all of that, uh, you know, that's on the line. That's on the line. And a lot of people say, "Well, no, you know, you know, you know where you're at. It's 50/50." Like, in some cases, if the woman earns the same as you and she's got a similar amount of assets, yeah, it'll be like a 50/50 split. Could even go in your favor below 50. However, that's generally not the case. You're going to have children involved. A lot of the time, the woman's had to sacrifice, um, her career, either by her choice or not by her choice, to look after children. And that's going to be taken into account and has a really heavy weighting in how much money then the man has to pay extra. And if the woman hasn't worked for five years, 10 years, assets are unbalanced, all that sort of stuff. Uh, they're going to make sure that, uh, everything is balanced. So it's extracting money, I guess, that the man has earned and providing it to the woman. And also the lawyers get their nice fair share out of that. Um, that's going to come with, you know, increased animosity and, most importantly, increased attorney's fees. And so when you're picking an attorney, you really want to make sure you're finding somebody that fits what your goals are. But you also should be wary of going into an attorney and them agreeing with everything you have to say. Some of my favorite clients, we had very, um, stressful consultations because I was pushing against them a lot and giving them kind of the bad news and saying, these are the things you have to know. And because I didn't sugarcoat things, because I didn't just say whatever they wanted to hear, "Yes, we'll fight this. You have this argument, this argument." They felt, and this is what they've shared with me, they felt right that they were not going to just be another billable hour, right? They were not just going to be another case that was bringing in money. I was going to invest time in coming up with a result and making sure they didn't waste their time filing motions that weren't going to benefit them in the long run.
So, I'm not sure what a, what a motion is in, in terms of a divorce. I understand, you know, that's paperwork or all that sort of stuff. Uh, but my experience and I've heard other guys having a similar experiences. So you get your, uh, solicitor, she gets her representative, her solicitor, and basically someone has to start. Okay. And someone needs to draft up a settlement letter, uh, with terms, uh, with more or less an offer. Okay. It's a financial settlement, uh, offer. It's normally two or three pages long. Uh, they're, they're quite brief. However, you know, you get a lawyer has to write that, needs to be reviewed, needs to be tweaked, all that sort of stuff. It does rack up quite a few hours. You could be, you know, paying two, three, $4,000 per round depending on the seniority, um, of the lawyer that is writing that correspondence. And just by sending that letter, that's not a legally binding, um, contract or offer. They don't have to accept that. And generally what happens is, uh, especially if things have gone pear-shaped, even if they haven't, everyone wants more than what they're being offered, right? Everyone wants more. It's just human nature, okay? You send it off to your wife, ex-wife, whatever you want to call her. Um, she's going to read that. Her lawyer's going to say, "No, I reckon we go back and ask for this." Then they send you a letter. Then you say, "Ah, you scoff at that." You know, your lawyer, you're saying, "Oh, that's rubbish. Let's go back again." Back and forth, back and forth, just racking up hours. And I just got to a point, uh, where I just wanted a result. Um, I'll see this wasn't getting me a result. And what you can do, um, to sort of force the hand isn't to get a result, but it's to get them in a position to negotiate and then work towards a result. Um, is you can, I think it's like a summons. You can send them a summons to court, right? They're issued with a summons. Then also, uh, they need to attend court once you, once you provide that summons to them via your lawyer. And so that's what I did because I was sick of all the games and sick of all the wasting money and all this sort of stuff. And then once you get there, more or less what happens is, I went to the family court. I didn't, I didn't sit in front of a judge or anything like that. I'm not sitting there with, with a judge with the hammer in it, you know, his or her hand smashing it on the table and all that sort of stuff. You sit in a room, it's like a mediation session. You sit in a room and there's a, they call them a registrar. Okay, they're like the mediator. And they sit there and they say, "Okay, let's try and do what we can to get to an outcome." You sit on one side of the table, you know, your ex sits on the other side of the table. The lawyers do the work. You have a game plan going in. I'm sure their side has a game plan going in. Uh, then you'll go to breakout rooms if you can't, uh, come to an agreement quickly, which is what happened in my case. You go out to a breakout room. So, a breakout room is a separate room. Uh, your lawyer will go in and out. Their lawyer will come in and out. Uh, it's more or less, um, just a really back and forth until you get to an agreement. Once you get to an agreement, uh, it'll be written up in court orders and then it'll be signed off by the court. And that's how you get your financially binding financial agreement, financial settlements. I can tell you now, um, it's a very, very stressful time to be involved in that. As again, as again, as I'll say this once again for you guys who are just about to go through it, uh, you know, your life's sort of on the line here. Uh, your life's on the line. And you feel very much out of control, pretty hopeless. Anxiety can really spike, especially if you are somebody who does suffer from anxiety or or depression. Can really send you off the rails. I've seen a lot of guys really suffer, uh, through this process. Guys, probably halfway. If you're enjoying the content, consider subscribing, like, comment, um, share. As I said, a few more weeks and we hopefully we're out of YouTube jail. We can get the channel remonetized again. If you want to support my work further and see some of my, um, archived comedy, uh, videos that are no longer on YouTube, the ones that got me, uh, banned or not banned, um, kicked out of the, uh, YouTube partner program, they're over on the Locals community. That's linked in the video description and pinned comment. And one month is free. So go and sign up, go check it out. If you don't like it, just, you know, unsign and you don't have to pay anything. Appreciate it. Also, for you guys who want to have a chat with me, you can. Um, there are options to do so linked in the video description and pinned comment.
And so, you know, there's a couple things that my clients know, right? I'm not going to let them litigate everything, like even if they have a basis for it, right? This is the distinction. Lots of times there's a legal argument or a fact or factual support for the claims my clients want to make. And the big picture is that if it doesn't move the long-term goal of your case forward, then instead what we do is we review all the options and figure out what to focus our energy on instead. That's actually going to get us to where we want to go. So that takes me to the first thing attorneys don't want you to know, specifically divorce attorneys. But some of this stuff can apply to a lot of different matters. So it's important to kind of keep that in mind. First thing is that mediation can save you thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars. For the majority of couples, mediation should be the first option when approaching your divorce case. And so often it's not because people, you know, they Google search, divorce attorney near me. I need to know the laws. I need to know what I'm entitled to. You know, what I can argue for. And don't get me wrong, there's there's a number of reasons why sometimes you need to bring an attorney on board and you need to file a motion. There's things that need to be resolved quickly. And if you have a difficult partner, I get it. Um, so there's going to be exceptions, right? But if you can start in mediation, get a get ahead of the process early, you are going to see so many different benefits in the long run. Sometimes it can be hard to see it when you're in it. Sometimes it can be easy to say, "Well, if I just go in front of court, I know I'm going to get this, so why would I agree to it?"
Well, you don't, you don't really know you're going to get it, too. Really depends, uh, what happens on the day. You might get it within, you know, maybe 10% either way. But I, I can tell you now the benefits of of trying to be reasonable as well, because men also, right, we can be very unreasonable. You get your backup. You get super protective. You're like, "This is my money. This is my house. These are my assets." You know, she didn't do anything. I've been, I've been doing this my whole life or I've been saving up for 10 years to buy this house and now she wants a chunk. Completely understand it. Been there, been there, done that. Uh, I think the main thing that saved me was I didn't get my backup, uh, to her in in private. Yeah. Very pissed off for quite a bit for quite a long time. But I kept it really very calm. Correspondence, very calm. Uh, no contact via phone, no getting nasty, because once you start doing that, once you start doing that, that's when the wheels fall off and just all hell breaks loose. And, uh, you're fighting over who gets the the couch, you know, and you got, you got a couch worth $500 and you got lawyers fighting for $600 an hour over a couch. Sometimes you just got to know when to, when to, but it's better to sort of cut your losses and move on. Really depending on what's on the line. Also, I'm not talking about people who got $50 million on the line, but if you've got $100,000 bucks and you know you can rebuild, it's probably better off for your mental health to do that, uh, to be reasonable. That's again, you can be reasonable and the other side can be unreasonable, you know. So, so a lot of guys will have that too. They just go, "Look, I want to be fair. How about we calculate who came in with what? We'll average it up. You know, you get a bit of a payout and on your way." And they're like, "No, no, no." They know they can get a big payout. Um, they'll dig their heels in. Uh, and they'll start racking up the bills, uh, putting pressure on you, start threatening you by saying, "Well, if you don't agree to me, uh, I'm going to go and I'm also going to make sure you're liable for my costs." And they're going to put all these threats and all this sort of stuff in there. And they're going to try and scare you. Sounds fun getting married, doesn't it?
Pay the attorney, you're going to build animosity. If you have children, it's not, it's going to increase the conflict long term. And ultimately, if you have people, a, a really educated mediator and, um, you know, is collecting the information in an efficient way and guiding you to the conversations, likely you're going to end up at a pretty similar result in a different way that you two were able to decide. So mediation can look like just the two of you and your mediator. So you don't have attorneys. It's just the, the kind of the three people working together to come up with a plan about how you're going to divide your assets, what's going to happen with certain support related conversations, as well as, uh, parenting plans and things like that. Right?
So once again, I mean, that is the perfect ideal world. Uh, if you, if you're able to get out doing that and you're able to have a reasonable, uh, other party, you're going to have a lot less pain than someone who goes through what I was just talking about. Uh, before that's great. You know, you can go and do it all, um, witnessed by a mediator, sign off, have minimal legal fees, legal costs. Uh, you could even stay potentially stay civil towards each other if you have children in the future. Better off for everybody. But this just isn't what happens. I said, um, most people aren't married to someone who is reasonable. Generally, the wheels have really fallen off. That woman's gotten disgruntled with the man. She's resentful for whatever reason. It could be, uh, you know, a lot, a lot of the time women just get bored of men and they are done henpecking him. And in her mind, she wants to be paid because in her mind she tried and she put all this time in and all this sort of stuff. And on her way out, she wants to be compensated for that for the self-angst that she's created by being super resentful of this man for a long period of time.
It can be the mediator. You both can have attorneys still and you can be mediating together. So, some people like knowing that they have somebody in their corner to run by the law with and brainstorm with. So, mediation doesn't mean no attorneys. There's lots of different types of mediation. Some of my clients really like having their attorneys in mediation with me and it can be a very valuable tool when the, the, the roadblock is a legal issue that both parties seem to be really stuck on. Um, and you can also bring, uh, other experts involved, CPAs, forensic accountants, real estate appraisers, whatever the need is for your case. So, mediation can be very, very collaborative. You build a team together. And instead of going in front of a judge and letting a stranger decide what should happen with your money, what should happen with your property, how it should be split, and also what holidays your children are going to spend with you. You two get to stay in control of the process as well as make it more specific for your family needs, more specific for your needs. Not everybody needs to have all the assets divided 50/50. I'm in California, so I'm always going to talk a little bit in in community property law context, but not everyone's going to need everything divided 50-50. You can come up with a unique way that addresses both people's financial concerns. I always say to my mediation clients, we should be able to get you all your wants, right? We should be able to get you all your wants, both parties' wants, um, sorry, we should be able to get, we should get be able to get all of your needs met and some of your wants, right? And what's important to know is that needs are very distinct. Some people think things that are wants are needs and vice versa. But needs are about what do you need to financially support yourself and take care of you and your children? Pay your bills, have some cushion, build financial goals, right? As if you were still married, right? Kind of living in that same mindset. Now, when you divorce, it's not always that easy, but think of that as a need. I need to have, um, you know, help at home so I can work and we need to have daycare. We need to do these certain things, whatever that looks like. I think, I think a lot of the time what happens here as well is this is where [ __ ] starts hitting the fan and where women will really want a pound of flesh out of a guy. They haven't really thought about their life, uh, after the divorce, where they're going to live, how they're going to pay for it, how they're going to earn money if, if they haven't had a job or they might be overestimating the jobs they can get and the money that they might be able to earn. And so when they're up against the wall, uh, they've put themselves in a position of vulnerability in a really bad spot just in life. You know, you've jumping off the money train, jumping off the gravy train. Uh, she's want to take as much as I can, um, from you.
So my my best mate Laza, good old Larry. Haven't spoken about Larry in a while. For those of you who are new, Larry is my best mate. He is a salt of the earth kind of guy. Very, very good. Um, it's a great guy, okay? Look, he's got his faults. He picolizes women and all that sort of stuff and gets trampled, which I've talked about pretty extensively, but I'll talk about his divorce experience for those of you just, just to talk about this. So, the exact example I'm talking about is Larry was married to a woman who, uh, was uneducated. Uh, she didn't work on the books. Okay? Okay. So, what that means is she was doing cash in hand work at cafes for, um, family members, you know, making coffees and sandwiches and [ __ ] like that at bakeries and stuff like that, cafe coffee shops. So, she's earning some money here and there, wasn't enough and it was more pocket money for her that she spent on herself. She never gave or contributed any of that to Larry or to the family. Anyway, long story short, uh, married 15 years or so. Um, Larry's gone, worked his guts out, uh, worked two jobs. Um, paid a house off. I had a house paid off. He was 36. House paid off. Like winning the game, right? How good's that? 36. Unheard of. People aren't even buying houses at 36 now. He got paid off. Cruising. Easy street. Had a little bit of money in the bank. More or less. She blew the marriage up through cheating. He found out. I won't go into the full detail of it, but essentially she ended up completely divorce scraping him. So, she brought it on him. Ruined his life essentially for years. Cuz he's just starting to be a bit better now and starting to be a bit optimistic. This is probably about eight years ago. Uh, she fully dragged him. He had to refinance his house, uh, to, at the time, I think he only refinanced it a couple of years ago because he had this loose agreement where he let her live in it for years and she just paid him rent. Nothing for him. All right. Good old Laza has been getting taken advantage of. Under market rent as well. Um, don't get me started on that. I'm going to get myself started. Get protective of the old boy. They like seeing people get taken advantage of. So anyway, so he, uh, had her, yeah, living there, low rent. Um, and eventually, look, they went to the, um, went through the exact same process that I was talking about earlier. They didn't have lawyers and that, they, well, they did have lawyers. They didn't go to court. They went through the mediation process, court orders, all that. So she, he had to refinance the house, uh, up until 2022 or 2023. Was that 2023 value? So from like 2006 value to 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. I can tell you now, there's a huge difference in a property price. Like things went ballistic here for those of you who aren't aware. So, for those of you who are local and understand the property market and how it's changed over the last 20 years, you'll see that's a huge whack. So, he had to, he wanted to keep the house. Uh, he wanted to keep it as an investment property. And so, he refinanced it up to the neck, was able to do that. Um, but she also, she, so, so she got paid out about 500k in equity for a house she never paid for. She never put down any money, never contributed any, any money to him at all. So, she got 500 equity from the house. Like, just the house. They had some money in some cash accounts. Well, he had some money in some in some accounts. She got all of it. Don't ask me how that happens. She got all of it. Uh, and most of the stuff or anything that she wanted from the house was more or less hers that she wanted. And the superannuation. So in Australia, we have superannuation, um, which is your 401k for those of you who might be in the US or pensions for those of you in the UK. Um, she, he had a significant amount there. I think she got about 100k out of his super. That's probably the biggest hit when you think about it. $100,000 compounding for Lazar for 30 years, um, in a pension fund. That's, that's not $100,000. That's, that's a lot more money than that. Anyway, so she walked away. She was able to get a place. She was able to go and buy a place. Um, completely debt free. This is someone who's never had a job, a proper, okay, she's had a job, but she hasn't had a career. She hasn't studied, hasn't really done anything. Has an entry-level job now. She's had to go out and do that. But she owns a house in Melbourne outright because of him. Just think about that. That, that's just how badly guys get screwed. I know I'm ranting here and I'm sharing a lot of information. That's why I always say to dudes and people say, "No, G man, money doesn't matter." It, it really matters because she had nothing and he worked his guts out to the point where now it was all, most of it was all stripped from him, uh, and given to her. And he's now in debt. So debt he didn't have. Now he's back in debt hundreds of thousands of dollars. And he's living, is literally the stereotype in an, an apartment, okay, by himself. Well, she's got a house that she owns and her new boyfriend's moved into it. And Larry paid for the whole thing. I don't care what anyone says. She didn't earn that money. She didn't, unless it's the law wasn't there and didn't do it. She didn't deserve that money, but she got it. People say, "No, that's their entitlement by law and blah blah." Okay, sure. You didn't earn it. You don't deserve it. I'll die on that hill. Anyway, let's move on. Getting charged up here.
And then wants are like, "Well, I want this car or I want the timeshare." Right? Those are things that you can kind of do without and we can be flexible about. So if we can kind of focus on those issues during mediation, you can get an agreement that looks much more like what both of you wanted versus maybe what just one person wanted and the other person, um, you know, ends up feeling a lot more grief towards the process. Again, that's going to build animosity between you, especially if you're parents. Not only that, but mediation will substantially reduce the amount of attorneys fees you both pay. Yes, you're paying the mediator, and if you have attorneys, you're still going to have them in the process. And it can seem like in the short term, you're paying a little bit more if you're paying a mediator or both of your attorneys, but you have to look at the whole process, right? How long is the average divorce case? California, I think it's around 18 months. I think the last, uh, bit of information we have as far as average cost about $17,000 a person. Um, that might have been 2022. So, I'll check the updated dates and let you guys know, but you have to think about that spread out. And if you can come up with a plan, hire a mediator who's organized, keep you on track, your attorneys are committed and doing their job, you should be able to turn things over a lot quicker and again in a way that you can control. Not to mention, and I've highlighted this, the impact mediation can have on how your children experience it. Right? When you're in litigation and you have attorneys fueling the fire, because I can tell you, they do it, right? And when you have that fuel being thrown and it's in children involved and you're trying to work through a parenting plan, whether you have a parenting plan or just fighting over financials or whether you're litigating the parenting plan issue, it's important to know that it's going to change the way you treat each other outside of the litigation setting, right? It's going to be really hard when you guys just went to court and then in a couple hours you have to exchange the kids and interact and you won't even say a word to each other. Children pick up on these things and it's going to impact other aspects of your life. You, this shouldn't be new, but I, I guess it is for a lot of people. Divorce is not what causes, you know, mental health issues, trauma related responses, or just any other negative experience that children have of their parents separating. Right? It's not just the divorce. It's the conflict of divorce that impacts the children's experience. So the number one question I ask is, what do you want your children's experience to be in the event of divorce? Like, what do you want their story to be to other people? Do you want it to be, you know, kind of saying, you guys didn't have it together, you constantly argued, it was drama all the time and they were pushed back and forth. Or do you want to say, "Yeah, I mean, you know, they separated but still got along and I was never put in the middle, so, you know, they're better."
A lot of kids, uh, have a horrible time during divorce. Uh, that's why I think it is, if you have children, the best, the best protocol is just to try and push it through as best as possible. Well, obviously you're not screwing yourself over if everyone's being reasonable. I know that's the ideal situation. Now, I don't have kids or I didn't have kids when I went through it. Uh, but I've seen it happen to friends of mine, men in my network, uh, have a horrible time, uh, having losing access, um, to children, uh, having, having a woman using the children as bargaining chips. Uh, the man is scared to stand up for himself because he knows that if the outcome isn't what she would desire, um, she will poison those children, uh, against against him and ruin the relationship, um, against his side of the family. Completely ruin the whole thing. So some guys just go, you know what, I'm just going to cop over and take it because I don't want to lose access to my kids and I don't want them to hate me. Very disgusting behavior that happens. It's absolutely torturous. It is treacherous. It is subhuman to do that to somebody with their children, but it happens a lot. And it goes to tell you a lot about some of the female personality traits that are out there that can do this to men that they once said, "I do till death do his part." For better or for worse, now all of a sudden they're trying to ruin that man's relationship with the children to torture him, to hurt him in the deepest way possible. Absolutely disgusting.
For it. Now they're on their way. They're friends and you know, they have new partners. It's fine, right? That experience is really important. And so why I'm starting with mediation and talking about divorce when I'm a premarital planner is because I want to get you thinking about what the next kind of secret is. The secret that divorce attorneys don't want you to know about, um, and how you can utilize that agreement to get to the next place. So the number two thing that divorce attorneys don't want you to tell you is premarital agreements can save you even more money on the divorce whether you use mediation or not. One of those provisions specifically will be, do you will you require a certain amount of mediation in the event of divorce? Right? Okay. We're, we're going, we're have this agreement in the event of divorce. We have to go to at least five hours of mediation before we file any motions because at least it's going to force you to sit down and take advantage of this process that is meant to keep the control in the party's hands and save you a lot of money litigating very expensive issues that are short-term issues. A lot of the time those are the biggest issues that are litigated are a lot of the short terms. The longer-term issues usually are the things that get set for a trial and the majority of cases settle before trial. Often for
The last thing you want to do in my opinion is go to a trial because it's the amount of money it costs to go to court is astronomical to have someone. So you got, you, you don't need to have a senior lawyer or someone very experienced to represent you and also building up your case, building up everything to a standard that you need to go to a court. It costs a lot of money and you're also at risk of, um, things not going your way or going worse than what you thought they would go, especially if you've been seen as the one who hasn't been agreeable and reasonable. I think a lot of guys just really just want to get put out of their misery and they lose the desire to fight because it can just wear you down. Mine wasn't too bad. It went for about six, six months, all the drama. I've heard of men having stuff going on for years and cost, you know, with things with kids and custody and disagreements around that and you're just constantly going. So, I really feel for guys who go through that [ __ ].
So, this is, this is one of the reasons why I like to talk about guys really taking their time to get to know women. I'm not saying it's going to completely remove the risk of this happening, but guys get with women so quickly that they don't, you know, you get caught up in the sex, you get caught up in all the fun times, the honeymoon stage, and then once you get past all that and you're stuck with someone, you don't even like them or they don't like you or both. And this is where this [ __ ] starts. That's why I say year three, years before you move in, at least three years, five years marriage. And even then, it's not removing a lot, all the risk, but you're going to have a better idea of what you're getting into. Guys, I'm going to leave it there. Don't rant too much. Thank you for watching. See you in the next video. And once again, check out the Locals if you'd like to support my work or get access to exclusive content no longer, uh, available anywhere else. Cheers.