buctootim Posted 1 April, 2010 Share Posted 1 April, 2010 Ex wife gets lump sum of £215,000 after 25 years of getting £27,000pa. How long should a man pay maintenance for his ex wife? I can see you need to provide for her if she is unable to work because of bringing up children - but if there are no children involved why the **** should she still be getting maintenance 25 years after the end of the marriage, which only lasted 13 years anyway. Exes should only be entitled to support until the kids are 18 imo, and not at all if they spend half the time with the other parent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/barristers-exwife-wins-maintenance-case-1932340.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 1 April, 2010 Share Posted 1 April, 2010 Ex wife gets lump sum of £215,000 after 25 years of getting £27,000pa. How long should a man pay maintenance for his ex wife? I can see you need to provide for her if she is unable to work because of bringing up children - but if there are no children involved why the **** should she still be getting maintenance 25 years after the end of the marriage, which only lasted 13 years anyway. Exes should only be entitled to support until the kids are 18 imo, and not at all if they spend half the time with the other parent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/barristers-exwife-wins-maintenance-case-1932340.html The arguement is that the mother takes a career break to raise the kids for 18 years and as a result reduced her ability to earn a higher wage in future years and also enabled tihe bloke to concentrate on his career thus giving him the opportunity to earn more. There is some merit in this. IMO the laws are too heavily skewed in the woman's favour (Ray Parlour wife did extremely well). However I believe that the pendulum will start to swing back as their has been a number of cases recently where the high earning woman has had to pay large sums to the husband. And guess what...they don't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 1 April, 2010 Share Posted 1 April, 2010 But in this case there are no children, the woman had her own successful independent career, inherited over £700K from her parents, and lives in a £1M+ house. She was claiming she needed £48K per year from her ex 'to avoid undue hardship' ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 1 April, 2010 Share Posted 1 April, 2010 Move to Australia for 12 months, and job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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