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.
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