Two time All-Pro cornerback
Tim McKyer played
on three Super Bowl champions during his distinguished,
12-year NFL career. However, everything that he had worked
so hard to earn was taken away in a divorce by a judge who
reminded McKyer
that "[your money] is no longer your money--it's mine."
While giving McKyer's ex-wife the house and almost all of
the family's assets, the family court, oddly enough, gave
him custody of his two children, ages seven and five. McKyer
says:
"I'm grateful that I have my children, particularly when so
many fathers don't. But it's insane that they give me my
children and then take away everything I've earned and leave
me without a way to support them."
Armed with the power to seize in an instant the savings and
property earned over decades of labor, family courts are
notorious for destroying fathers economically.
McKyer will t
