How is Mount Everest relevant to divorce?
One of the first things that your divorce lawyer is likely to request of you (after you pay the initial retainer) is that you share your complete financial information — income, assets, debts, accounts, investments, personal property, etc.
The divorce lawyer is supposed to file a complete financial disclosure statement with the divorce court. Your divorce lawyer may not make the filing — mine did not (I did the filing myself about two years later after I was self-represented) — but in any event she or he will have enough information to be able to assess your financial condition.
And so your divorce lawyer will have your financial information and then will begin working your case and sending you bills for legal services.
But what does billing by your divorce lawyer have to do with Mount Everest?
Here you go …
Famed but ill-fated British mountaineer George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.
His answer: “Because it’s there.”