Footballer's wife and divorce

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Just wondering what you thought of this news. Good on him or poor her?

A Moroccan footballer, Hakimi, got, along with his other teammates, a rise after the football world cup. His salary is of 1 million pounds and he also has properties and cars.
His wife recently asked for a divorce and wanted 50% of his possessions.
When they it got to court, the judge told her that Hakimi was actually technically skint and had absolutely nothing in his name, no money, no cars, no houses.
It turns out that he put everything in his mom's name, and his salary goes straight to his mum's bank account.

Her possessions, on the other hand? Well, they will have to share those!

Obviously he's a fucking scumbag.

Not sure why anyone would think good on him.

He's a rapist isn't he? I thought that was why she was divorcing him?

Tbh it's the same old hiding assets story, he's clearly a disgusting person. I feel sorry for his wife.

Yes, the rape situation is truly disgusting

Why on earth would anyone think 'good on him' for being a complete shit and hiding assets???

Thats appalling. Surely they can't just leave it at that. Its clear he's hiding his assets. I hope there's further action she can take to get what she's entitled to

I think they're trying to settle for good child benefit now

I don’t think this would fly in the UK - where are they getting divorced?

I’m recently divorced. This doesn’t surprise me at all. The settlement of assets was horrible and I’ve walked away with 3.5% of assets. Now he has bashed me with paying for more than 50% of child related expenses.

I was asked what I’m looking for in my next husband and the answer is someone who has a good relationship with their ex wife and children. It’s really hard to achieve and it means the man needs to pay their fair share.

I also question the advice this lady received. My legal advice while still married was to secure assets, which I did and if I hadn’t done that I would have zero.

It turns out that he put everything in his mom's name, and his salary goes straight to his mum's bank account.

That's a gross oversimplification. If that was the case, the legal answer would be simple.

When he signed his first major contract at 18, it was agreed that 80% of his assets would go into his Mother's name, and that she would be the majority signatory on any large purchases, essentially to stop him pissing his money away. That was rather shrewd financial advice.

Nearly two decades on, that's still the case, and 80% of his salary has continued to be paid to his Mother; and his property etc is registered in his mum's name, which appears to include the marital property - which his wife should have been aware of. It's not clear if that's the case. It's not clear if this is news to his wife at all. The only coverage is from sites quoting other sites trying to generate clicks through dodgy headlines...

It's not case closed, by any means.

He didn't do this to purposely hide assets ? It's been thr case for 2 decades since his first contract so his wife should've been aware of the financials before such a high value marriage surely ??

True karma would be when he goes to his mum for his money and she says: what money? 😉

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How did she not know? Did he purposely conceal it from her or just ‘forgot’ to tell her? Why would a grown man not want control over his own finances? Or was it his clever idea to stop this type of thing happening? What a massive betrayal of trust!

I'm not sure. He signed his first contract at 18, he met her at 19 so it wasn't to hide her assets from her particularly, but maybe he did it for his future marriage. He also mentioned that he wanted to provide for his mum.

It's funny because divorce law imo in the first place should share what was accrued during the marriage in any event, I find it ridiculous that in some jurisdictions you can be married two years and then want half of someone's fortune.

He's been accused of rape and not charged so we shouldn't be calling him a rapist (yet). It wouldn't be the first time women have tried to extort footballers through rape charges.

He's had this financial arrangement since he was 18 or so, so I don't think it can be seen as deprivation of marital assets. He did it to prevent him frittering away his fortune like many young footballers signing huge deals do.

When you think about it, I don't really know why being married to someone for two years should entitle you to half their fortune so I'm not in the "scum bag" camp