Great job! You are strong and smart Macy
I suggest you make sure to download and make multiple copies of all the evidence you have on your phone, and get all of it in the hands of your lawyer, with a back—up left with friend and it safe deposit box ASAP.
I also think advice to get settlements now, and more than half, instead of payments is really really a good idea. He can’t be trusted, and more importantly he may squander and lose everything when he goes back to addictions and drinking. A long-term addict can spiral pretty quickly when they feel justified and nobody is in their “way” to stop them
