A divorce decree is expected to be issued tomorrow morning for Greg Meyers, president of the Houston ISD school board and his wife Sandie Meyers, a Houston Community College trustee, after more than 20 years of marriage.
“It’s an unfortunate situation,” Greg Meyers said when reached at his office today.
The couple has two sons ages 16 and 10. Sandie Meyers will retain primary custody with standard expanded visitation rights for her husband.
Greg Meyers filed for divorce on May 17 saying the marriage was “unsupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.” His wife then filed a counter claim on May 22 also saying the marriage was insupportable and alleging that her husband was “guilty of cruel treatment toward” her.
Greg Meyer’s attorney, Jan Cohen, said the cruelty application didn’t
have any special meaning, and “You can allege whatever you like but
that doesn’t mean it really happened.”
And she stressed that the final
agreement to dissolve the marriage was based upon the “insupportability”
clause — the standard reason given in most divorce petitions these
days. She said it was an amicable divorce.
Meyers agreed with his attorney that in the end, the divorce was
amicable. He also denied that there was any cruelty involved and said he
had no idea why his wife included that wording in her petition.
Filing for divorce “was the hardest decision I ever had to make,
especially with kids involved,” he said. The couple went to mediation
and it did not take long to sort things out, he said.
In 2008, Greg Meyers, a Republican and Boy Scout leader, ran
unsuccessfully against incumbent state representative Hubert Vo, a
Democrat. Asked if he intends to run for higher office again, Meyers
said he has no plans to now, but “you never know what the future may
bring.”
Hair Balls also tried to reach Sandie Meyers through her attorney
Ellen Yarrell, who declined to speak about the case other than to say
the decree hearing was scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday.
According to the agreement, Greg Meyers will pay $1,400 in child
support and $1,000 a month in alimony to Sandie for one year. Sandie
Meyers, whose formal name is Sandra Mullins Meyers, petitioned the court
to have her name changed to Sandie Mullins.
Among the court papers are orders for a lone deposition — which Greg
Meyers unsuccessfully tried to have quashed — of a female employee of
HISD. Asked if he’d had an affair with this woman, Meyers said he had
not; that they had worked together on district business, but that other
board members had worked with her as well. (Hair Balls was unsuccessful
in reaching this woman or her attorney.)
Asked why his wife wanted this woman deposed, Meyers said he thought
it was because his wife or his wife’s attorney “thought there was more
to something than there really was.” He added that if there had really
been something to it, “there would be a worse claim for a divorce and
not just insupportability.”
This article appears in Jul 29 – Aug 4, 2010.
