A friend of mine is at the tail end of a messy divorce and has asked me how best to facilitate the split of their personal items.
The court mandated that he makes a list of all the items left in there home and they are to pick one item each until all items are claimed, with hime getting first pick. Sounds easy eh, however…
Their relationship it and communication is zero, they can’t even email each other even to say "Hey I’ve picked the glockenspiel, it your turn...", if they use the solicitors as a email conduit its £30 per email so that’s a economic blackhole, leading him to ask me how best to do it.
He needs the versioning aspect to prevent a ‘land grab’ of all the valuable items as this has already been attempted.
Now obviously he could use dropbox as this has versioning and I believe it can be set to alert when a document is saved/modified but I’m wondering if there is a better solution?
In a ideal world (other than acting like adults and using email) there would be some kind of service where you could upload a list sign up with your email and the system would allow one pick and then email the other party and lock you out until they have made their pick and go through that loop until all the items have a owner, but surprisingly as I doubt this is the first occurance I cant seem to find one .
So are there any solutions I can to suggest to him other than Dropbox?
TIA
Create a list of everything*. They can each rank everything on the list 'most to least valuable' and then it's easy enough to go down the list row by row.
It would be pretty easy to write a script to accept an input from each party in turn, but it's one of those things where you'd spent 5x more time writing the script than doing the same task the 'long' way.
*Don't miss any important items off the list - it'll screw up everything.
Google sheets will do collaboration. It won't stop her land-grabbing half the estate, but he can just delete it all and tell her try again.
Is there a third-party friend trusted by both that could act as mediator? The "keeper of the list" if you will.
Thanks for the pointers to Google Sheets it seems to do almost everything he wants bar the versioning not seeming to be granular enough
