Yeah, I was pretty skilled too, and we had it all agreed to, and then the night before the appearance she decided she wanted $20K for my unvested RSUs and $5K f

Yeah, I was pretty skilled too, and we had it all agreed to, and then the night before the appearance she decided she wanted $20K for my unvested RSUs and $5K for a house with no community property value because we had used some money from an inheritance she got to replace the AC two years before we split. That's when the attorneys got called, and the rest is history. Your story sounds like most I have heard where no lawyers got involved. Hell hath no fury like a partner scorned (with a retainer). Glad to hear that you made it out without exercising Mutually Assured Destruction. :)