Marriage Breakdown
After Kim's birth, and after completing his medical degree, Dan announced he intended to combine it with a law degree. He enrolled at Harvard Law School. Having degrees in both medicine and law, Dan had no difficulty finding work. In the early 1980s, Dan hired Linda Kolkena, a former airline attendant who had become a receptionist, as his assistant.
Betty suspected an affair, and eventually Dan moved out, bought a house of his own, and took custody of his children. Then followed a lengthy, divorce. Broderick vs. Broderick became one of the more famous divorce cases in the United States.
The long drawn-out Broderick divorce was finalized in 1989, four years after Dan filed for it. Judge William Howatt accepted all of Dan's proposed numbers and ruled that Betty owed Dan $750,000 in Epstein reimbursements and cash advances. In the end, Dan Broderick, was ordered to pay his wife of 20 years less than $30,000 in cash. In addition, Dan was re-awarded custody of the children.
On April 22, 1989, ten days after what would have been Dan and Betty's 20th anniversary, Dan and Linda were married.
Read more about this topic: Betty Broderick
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