If really Depends on how much we’re talking about.
£100K is much harder to deal with and £20K, and if you were talking about £5K I don’t imagine you’d have posted the question.
And we don’t know if this is going to be an acrimonious divorce or a mutually agreeable solution for all. But given that you have asked the question, I can only assume that you already expect this to go to court, discovery, and all that jazz.
There has to be someone here that is good a problem solving, but let’s just run with it....
Mrs A is getting divorced. It’s nasty. Knives out at the kitchen table. Lots of shouting. Mrs A is scared. Mrs A hires someone she knows and trusts to protect her, just in case she has an accident you understand. She pays Mr B £2000 a week, and so as not to enrage the scary Mr A, she uses her emergency fund, which of course is exactly why we have emergency funds, for when emergencies like this happen.
Now, I have no idea how Mr B squares this with the tax man, but if Mr B becomes so enamoured with Mrs A’s children and should make them a monetary gift, for their education you understand, or to help them on the property ladder, I don’t imagine that would be an issue, especially if it didn’t happen until after the divorce were finalised.
And if challenged Mr B says he was indeed contracted to work for Mrs A, but that having not encountered any physical threat from Mr A, and having met DCs, he had just divided he wished to pay it forward, because that’s what good people do.
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Likewise, if you begin to experience electrical faults in your car, the ones that are intermittent and you can’t trace them, you may no longer feel safe driving DCs around at night in the car. You may find it safer for yourself and your children to buy a new car with a good reputation for safety. Something German maybe with the sort of price on has to spend for solid German engineering.
Then old car you gave to a friend, because she needs one and her husband happens to know about these things. You wouldn’t trust it again yourself, but they know about these things and if they choose to trust it, that’s their decision to make. It’s a gift. That are struggling and you were going to scrap it anyways.
The fact that after the divorce you decide you don’t like the new car and put it on the market, bought as new, 1 lady driver, 408miles on the clock, and your friend begs you to take your old car back, because it’s so you, and you have so many memories, and her husband has given it a thorough check over and there’s truly nothing wrong with it.
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There are so many games one can play if your inside of your 2 year window.