Divorce settlement in the news

Swisdom

Anyone seen this story in the news recently....what are people thoughts on it?

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-38891663

Personally I'm disgusted that she is looking for another handout on the back of some poor personal decisions that have affected her pocket - and she still hasn't found a mug willing to support her so goes for the easy option.

SantaClaus

Prostitute's are cheaper and more fun than marriage.

stonemuse

Doesn't seem right on the facts given.

floydroadfaithfull

feel for the poor fucker
women =£££€€$$

PrincessFiona

There's been 2 cases in the last few days. As a woman, I am disgusted at
the outcomes; SO unfair on the man

McBobbin

Yeah, be interested in all the facts. Said the kid was grown up. On the face of it doesn't seem right

Lincsaddick

Most women love equality .. except on divorce when it comes down to who gets the money, the house, the car, the fridge, the tv, the tea towels, the ..... this verdict is a scandal, especially from the court of appeal, I can imagine some dickhead high court judge coming to this conclusion but the coa has now set a very dangerous precedent

JiMMy 85

SantaClaus said:

Prostitute's are cheaper and more fun than marriage.

PrincessFiona

This is the other case http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/28/wife-lambretta-millionaire-wins-27m-divorce-settlement-ten-years/

Lincsaddick

PrincessFiona said:

This is the other case http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/28/wife-lambretta-millionaire-wins-27m-divorce-settlement-ten-years/

I wonder what Harriet Harperson would have to say about all this ((:>)

blackpool72

PrincessFiona said:

There's been 2 cases in the last few days. As a woman, I am disgusted at
the outcomes; SO unfair on the man

Please be my next wife: )

Powell Is Pleasant

Swisdom said:

Anyone seen this story in the news recently....what are people thoughts on it?

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-38891663

Personally I'm disgusted that she is looking for another handout on the back of some poor personal decisions that have affected her pocket - and she still hasn't found a mug willing to support her so goes for the easy option.

That story is SO poorly written. No idea what the timeline is or why he should have to have ever given her any money.
On the information given, that verdict is an utter disgrace.

Darty Valiant

SantaClaus said:

Prostitute's are cheaper and more fun than marriage.

And less likely to correct your misuse of the apostrophe :-)

SantaClaus

There are so many of these judgements. The law is a joke.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/twenty-three-years-after-divorce-judge-rules-multi-millionaire-has-to-pay-out-to-ex-wife-10100340.html%3Famp&ved=0ahUKEwj59qH21P7RAhXsCcAKHXifCscQFggvMAE&usg=AFQjCNF_3jIS4h3e6_3nUyWLh94QcKCzAw

SantaClaus

JiMMy 85 said:

SantaClaus said:

Prostitute's are cheaper and more fun than marriage.

Daggs

I'm tempted to say he deserves it for hijacking the name of the finest Italian scooter.





But I won't .......................

C_A_F_C

SantaClaus said:

Prostitute's are cheaper and more fun than marriage.

Ho ho ho

moutuakilla

Out of interest, are there any cases where the husband gets maintenance from the wife? Surely there must be?

Huskaris

I'm guessing if all of her failed property investments had gone well he would have got a cut of that right...?

DA9

I remember years ago when Mel B of spice girls fame divorced her husband (jimmy somebody, who was one of her backing dancers) he went for maintenance and a divorce settlement from her, the women's groups and female commentators certainly sang a different tune then, they thought it was outrageous of him.
.

MrOneLung

Some comedian said after he had been divorced a couple of times ' don't get married, just buy a house for someone you don't like'

Macronate

MrOneLung said:

Some comedian said after he had been divorced a couple of times ' don't get married, just buy a house for someone you don't like'

Rod Stewart

Swisdom

DA9 said:

I remember years ago when Mel B of spice girls fame divorced her husband (jimmy somebody, who was one of her backing dancers) he went for maintenance and a divorce settlement from her, the women's groups and female commentators certainly sang a different tune then, they thought it was outrageous of him.
.

Jimmy Gulzar

No idea why I know that

Chippycafc

No wonder shes effing smiling.

The_President

Hmmm, i'm going to have a go at this getting some money back after a divorce lark - cant just be girls doing it.

Chippycafc

Women are like tornados. There wet when they come and when they go they take their house with them.

PaddyP17

Tbf if this occasional news story* sort of thing is the tradeoff for:

- earning more money/having more earning potential;
- not feeling scared to walk alone at night;
- being at far less risk of sexual assault either from someone I know (much more common) or from a stranger;
- having a legal and societal system that inherently benefits me;
- favouritism in custody battles when men actually contest their case;
- a male-dominated political system (70.6% of MPs are male; all but one of the Supreme Court justices);
- living in a world where we don't need a male equivalent of the Bechdel test;
- 96% of Fortune 500 companies having a male CEO;
- the implicit yet societally curated expectation that women are "best" at child-rearing**);
- there never having been a female President; and only two female Prime Ministers

Then I think us guys have it pretty sweet. ... Or, we have the system in our favour, at least.

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(*Story? Pah. It's written like shit.)

(**NB I think the whole raising children thing is very much a two-way patriarchy-limits-everyone thing because stay-at-home dads can be AWESOME etc etc)

aliwibble

moutuakilla said:

Out of interest, are there any cases where the husband gets maintenance from the wife? Surely there must be?

One of my friends paid maintenance to her ex for a while, because she was working and the kids had residency with him. And I've never heard her whine about it once.

MrOneLung

PaddyP17 said:

Tbf if this occasional news story* sort of thing is the tradeoff for:

- earning more money/having more earning potential;
- not feeling scared to walk alone at night;
- being at far less risk of sexual assault either from someone I know (much more common) or from a stranger;
- having a legal and societal system that inherently benefits me;
- favouritism in custody battles when men actually contest their case;
- a male-dominated political system (70.6% of MPs are male; all but one of the Supreme Court justices);
- living in a world where we don't need a male equivalent of the Bechdel test;
- 96% of Fortune 500 companies having a male CEO;
- the implicit yet societally curated expectation that women are "best" at child-rearing**);
- there never having been a female President; and only two female Prime Ministers

Then I think us guys have it pretty sweet. ... Or, we have the system in our favour, at least.

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(*Story? Pah. It's written like shit.)

(**NB I think the whole raising children thing is very much a two-way patriarchy-limits-everyone thing because stay-at-home dads can be AWESOME etc etc)

Yep, a woman should be able to financially shaft her ex husband years after their divorce because she may feel more scared to walk alone at night than a man.

McBobbin

depends what she had to give up. Depends on the facts. PaddyP17 is on the money

Exiled_Addick

moutuakilla said:

Out of interest, are there any cases where the husband gets maintenance from the wife? Surely there must be?

Of course there have.

This isn't about gender its about greed.

These cases usually end up being women who are receiving the payments because men have spent the last few thousand years building a society which favours them, meaning when a marriage breaks down the fella usually has more financial worth behind him.

Doesn't mean there aren't plenty of fellas out there who wouldn't try this one if their rich wife left them. Gender ain't got anything to do with it. You either got morals and the wherewithal to look after yourself or you haven't.