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There’s just no pleasing some people, I reckon.<\/p>\n

Consider the case of Sue Ann Hamm, former wife of Harold Hamm.<\/p>\n

Ms. Hamm got a billion-dollar settlement from an Oklahoma court in her divorce action against her ex-husband. A billion bucks!<\/p>\n

Was it enough? Nope. She’s going to appeal the settlement.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/14\/luxury\/harold-hamm-divorce\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2<\/p>\n

“Sue Ann is disappointed in the outcome of this case,” said her lawyer Ron Barber. “She dedicated 25 years as Harold’s faithful partner in family and business.”<\/p>\n

Harold Hamm reportedly is worth around 20 bil, so I reckon his ex-wife wants a bigger piece of that action.<\/p>\n

OK, I’m not a party to this divorce action. I’m just sitting out here in the peanut gallery, albeit not too terribly far from the Oklahoma state line. Still, I get that there’s a lot I don’t understand about this case.<\/p>\n

I’ll acknowledge one thing that escapes my understanding: Why isn’t $1 billion enough?<\/p>\n

Sue Ann can take the dough, stash some of it away for the kids, invest most of it in some secure stocks and other things, keep a healthy sum of it — say, $50 million or so — for herself and still live very nicely.<\/p>\n

According to CNN.com, Harold Hamm is a big hitter: “Harold Hamm is somewhat of a legend in the oil businesses. He built the company from the ground up, pioneered the use of fracking and led the development of North Dakota’s Bakken oil field.”<\/p>\n

Well, absent a pre-nuptial agreement, the former couple is left to settle this matter as amicably as they can.<\/p>\n

From my perch far, far away, a billion dollars looks pretty darn amicable.<\/p>\n

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There’s just no pleasing some people, I reckon. Consider the case of Sue Ann Hamm, former wife of Harold Hamm. Ms. Hamm got a billion-dollar settlement from an Oklahoma court in her divorce action against her ex-husband. A billion bucks! Was it enough? Nope. She’s going to appeal the settlement. http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/14\/luxury\/harold-hamm-divorce\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 “Sue Ann is disappointed … Continue reading $1 billion settlement just isn't fair<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[525,2063,4450],"class_list":["post-7112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-bakken-field","tag-harold-hamm","tag-sue-ann-hamm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}