Spousal support

[Captain1]

Anyone have experience of this?

my understanding was it is there to enable a spouse to get back to a place where they are able to support themselves.

in my situation my spouse thinks she should get it as I earn around £150k she earns around £40k. She will get roughly £500k in cash for the divorce with no children involved . hence I believe she is “self sufficient “/able to buy a new house outright had a decent pension and earns more than enough to support herself.

in contrast I will get £200k cash (and keep £300k pension) so will need more to catch up with housing etc.

thoughts?

I think she would be cheeky af to look for spousal but people's brass neck never ceases to amaze me

Depending on all the facts of the case this may or may not be reasonable. For example, you could have all the facts above and conclude the claimant was "cheeky AF."

However, what if you had all the same facts except the claimant was financially abused throughout their marriage (excuse me OP, this is not directed at you) and had no real idea what their ex earned or had stashed away? The facts might be entirely the same, the outcome of a court case might also be the same but the lack of trust is going to encourage people to seek whatever they can because the finances are opaque. It's not really the claimant's fault that they're shooting in the dark in those circumstances.

Also, I would exercise caution in comparing divorce outcomes. It's quite rare that we can see all the facts of a case or why a judge reached the outcome that they did. Hence why there are people here saying in similar circumstances they got spousal. My own limited experience tells me it's more likely that they either divorced before 2014 (there have been three particularly important SM cases since then) or there were other factors to their case such as a disabled child, rather than that they were "cheeky AF."