I want half in the divorce. Am I likely to get it.

If you're going to demand half of everything, when you yourself have acknowledged that he put down £200k for your home together and knowing that is inequitable, then you also shouldn't be surprised that he may choose to draw out this divorce to attempt to protect his money and assets.

If you are so well paid OP, why do you not have savings of your own?

Also, you are quite right - £50k as a deposit on a property won't get you anything like the home you're used to, but that's because it's financed via two incomes, but it will get you somewhere you can live. You have no children so there is no provision needed for them in both homes.

You will need to temper your expectations, OP. Divorce isn't a payday.

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Wondered that too. Really with no children and no one having to take time off for maternity purposes they should leave with what they brought to the marriage and half of any equity/debts after the marriage. For such a short marriage anything else is just being a gold digger to me.

Poor bloke. Accept the 50K and leave him in peace.

https://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/get-advice/family-law-information/

PDF guides for divorce & separation - they lay out the legal starting point.

your situation is different to the OPs. You had 2 children. You may have also been married longer than 6 years. The OP would not get 50%. That is normally the starting point, before considering the individual circumstances of both parties in the marriage.

I think he’d say it was you making it difficult.

You have had a very short marriage, and you had no children together.

You are younger than your DH so you have a longer time to build your assets, in the context of your eventual split and your life potential after.

The court will look at both your needs, not your wants. They will ensure the split of assets takes account of what you each bought into your short marriage of only 6 years. They will also protect both sides from attempting to clean out the other side of their assets and ensure each is protected. They may well consider his proposal and agree that it's a fair division of the assets you amassed as a couple during the 6 years.

you have the ability to ring fence any assets that you brought into the marriage the same as he can, As you do not have children there will be no need to consider any dependents' needs such as the primary caregiver keeping the marital home for the stability of the children.

you need to seek legal advice and you definitely need to change your attitude to how you are seeing the split of assets. If the marriage was 30 years and you had taken time out of your career to bring up children, then that would be a completely different matter.

You cannot count the time you were living together. The court will only consider the legal status of marriage. What you negotiate financially outside the court process is different. You just have to agree as the two people in the marriage how things will be split. If you can't agree, then you have to each put forward a proposal and the court will rubber-stamp the final decision according to a 'formula' so it is equitable and consistent with each party's circumstances.

That won't buy me anywhere though.

Then you will have to rent using the £50K. The court isn't there to help you buy a house. They are there to ensure you aren't homeless, so they will see your DHs proposal as the solution to that as the money gives you enough to put down a deposit and 3 months' rent. They will look at your employment status and be satisfied that you have earning potential and years into the future to continue to have stable employment to put a roof over your own head.

That’s magnanimous but I think you did yourself as a disservice as the cost to women of having children is really much much greater than to men, unless you get a surrogate that is biological reality.

I don’t think you’d get half as you don’t have children and the £200k was put in before you got married and your marriage is short.

If you had children then the lifelong hit to your earnings as a result of being pregnant, giving birth and taking maternity leave, along with the ongoing needs and caring responsibilities of children would probably result in you getting half or more than half despite the money going in before marriage. This is to compensate you for the uneven cost to you of having children relative to him within a marriage and make it fair.

You have faced no such penalty so what would the justification be? Did you make career or earnings sacrifices to help enable his career?

This. As someone who has been through trhe divorce process Yabvu unless you have left any info out? Do you have children? Is there any loss of earnings whilst you stayed home/changed your working hours to work around kids which benefited his career? It’s very unlikely you will get half and he is well within his right to fight you every step of the way.

My divorce solicitor advised me to reach a financial agreement first with my ex using an intermediary, rather than go through the court which takes more time and racks up legal fees.

Scotland may have different rules (not sure it does on this though) but otherwise we don’t have different rules in different counties like the US does with states. OP is being greedy and unfair.

How much is the marital home worth?

Legally yes you can take half. Morally, i’d give him back his 200k. That’s what I did and we had 2 kids. Yes it meant I have had to rent for 15yrs and this year I can finally buy again. Morally, i’d never have taken the money my ex saved before he met me but that’s me.

Are you a judge, or is there some other basis for your legal pronouncement?

It goes on length of marriage.....you aren't going g to get 50%. And that 200k will be seen as a premarital asset.

Wow, this greed & exploitation is why so many men don’t want to get married - and makes their fears seem entirely rational and well-founded. I really hope my sons never make the mistake of marrying anyone who wants to shake them down in this way; & that the courts don’t give a legal veneer to what morally speaking is no more than extortion.
Poor man. Hope it is made up/a reverse.

I agree – it must be a reverse.

But you shouldnt get half.
He should keep the £200k he put in first
He should keep his own ISA
He should keep his own savings.

Why do you think you deserve it?

No children to consider is a massive factor here

You sound like you are trying to grab far more than your fair share of marital assets as you contributed significantly less than he did.

Being married to someone for a few years doesn’t give you the right to asset-strip them in the divorce just because you’ve led a spendthrift life.

Agree, totally unreasonable.

Oh I hope he rinses you in court for your pension and everything else you have. You are nothing but a money grabber.