What Causes Divorce? Elite Divorce Lawyer James Sexton Talks Marriage and Entrepreneur Relationships
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Rob Moore
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Rob interviews James Sexton, a top divorce lawyer who shares shocking stories from his career. From multi million dollar divorces to why marriages fail, Sexton gives his perspective as someone who's seen relationships at their worst. He discusses expensive settlements, entrepreneur marriages and reveals the real cause of divorce.
James Sexton REVEALS:
- The real cause of divorce
- How he manipulates emotions for a living
- His thoughts on prenups
- Dealing with narcissistic clients
- How he manipulates emotions for a living
- The most expensive divorce he handled
- Whether entrepreneurs make good spouses
BEST MOMENTS
"I'm a good ex-husband. I don't think I was a great husband, I'm impatient, I love my work. I don't think I love anything as much as I love my work so I don't know what that says."
"56% of marriages end in divorce and yet it's assumed that it's something you should do and to add to that, 86% of people who get divorced are remarried within five years of their divorce."
"The people I represent you've never heard of and they could buy those celebrities 10 times over. They drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee, they wear a Timex watch. They're not posh. They're just people who look like they're no one."
"I divorce the person we marry, and I think that there's a lid for every pot. I think that it's really less about the individual character... it's also about finding someone that's complimentary to you."
"What would appear to be a red flag may be something that requires a polarity. Like some person's trash is another person's treasure."
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| 0:00.0 | James, what's the most expensive divorce you've ever seen or been involved in? |
| 0:05.2 | I got paid $3 million from one of my clients over the course of four years. |
| 0:10.2 | That's the most expensive one I've ever personally been involved in. |
| 0:14.0 | The other side in that case paid $5 million across three lawyers, four lawyers, four law firms. Because I, I just kept picking |
| 0:23.2 | them off like one at a time. And every time she would get a negative outcome, she would fire her |
| 0:28.0 | lawyers and hire new ones. I was on it from the beginning all the way to the end. But yeah, |
| 0:32.7 | she spent five million. My client spent three million plus another million or so each in expert fees. |
| 0:39.3 | So it was probably like by the time it was all said and done about a 12 million dollar divorce. |
| 0:43.3 | But for a couple that had $800 million worth of assets, you know, that wasn't as much money to them. |
| 0:50.3 | He actually said to me with a straight face that client early in the case, we were talking |
| 0:55.2 | about settlement concepts. And he said, well, look, I'm not going to argue with her over a couple |
| 0:58.9 | of million bucks. I remember thinking, really? Okay. Because I argue a lot for a couple of million |
| 1:03.7 | bucks. That's actually my job description. So, you know, that's, but he was very sincere. He was like, yeah, I'm not going to want to. I'm not going to. Who's going to quibble over? |
| 1:11.4 | What's a few million among former lovers, you know? |
| 1:14.1 | Wow. |
| 1:14.7 | And what's the most you've seen one side have to give away to another side in a divorce settlement? |
| 1:22.1 | Somewhere in the neighborhood assets wise of about $4 billion. |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah, $4 billion. Yeah. billion yeah yeah but that was you know a marriage of long duration the guy had a net worth of about nine billion and you know he she got |
| 1:40.6 | up around half of it because they when they when they got together he didn't really have much and |
| 1:46.6 | and and she had really you know raised their kids and you know is this is all new york is is um you know |
| 1:52.5 | it's very funny my my colleague in l.A laura wasser represents like people you've heard of you know |
| 1:58.5 | like she represents celebrities and And anytime a celebrity is getting |
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