Divorcing Husband (a Lawyer) May Have Dissipated $300K of Family Assets on TikTok Gifts (Which He Says Was a Business Strategy)

M.B. v. C.B. , decided May 15 by Westchester County ( N.Y. ) trial court judge James Hyer .

Plaintiff's counsel indicated that his client was concerned about Defendant 's continued erratic behavior including his use of the social media platform TikTok (hereinafter "TikTok"), including representations made during recordings of Defendant on TikTok that he had gifted significant sums of funds believed to be in excess of twenty or thirty thousand dollars .

Defendant: "My parody persona was on the videos, but yes, my physical being and my likeness was on those, yes, Judge. The whole TikTok thing is a public act, so yes, I mean, sitting here as an attorney before your Honor, this is [Defendant]. What you see on there is CJB times three because I have three accounts, so he's not even referencing — there's XXXX , XXXX and XXXX .

The Plaintiff is quite aware of that because we even went live the first couple of the lives and we got a few gifts.

Defendant confirmed that he has spent at least $300,000.00 on TikTok since February .

The Defendant has engaged in repeated acts of domestic violence / intimate partner abuse against me with increasing frequency and severity over the last several months .

He has also exponentially increased his abuse of cannabis and possibly other drugs.

He attempted as recently as this past weekend to interact with our children immediately after having smoked a significant amount of cannabis.