Heather Mills to appeal against £24.3m settlement!

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How can that not be enough? The papers are going to have a field day.....

I wonder if Dupre (prostitute who went with Elliot Spitzer, NY Governor for 5000 dollars and then made 200,000 dollars in 48 hours in downloads of her music in consequence) earned her money more than Ms Mills taking such a large sum on divorce?

In terms of contribution - if a man earns say £40k a year and his wife for 20 years has been a housewife the value of her services is about £40k a year. On divorce an equal split is fair. If however husband earns £20m a year then the wife's contriuion has been about £40k a year and her entitlement after divorce shoudl be to a sum entitling to that value - the £40k a year income, the value of the servies she provided to the family. If she'd had a nanny and housekeeper adn just really provided company and sexual services then perhaps she is entitled to even less and only for a short time until she can get back into whatever work she was doing when she met him.

I don't agree with your figures there Xenia. How absurd to think that a mother can be labelled a nanny/housekeeper

But the same with a father - in a marriage most fathers do a lot of childcare too even if they work (as do mothers who have children) so I'm suggesting value the hours/time etc of that part of the job of both of them an give them the share on divorce which reflects the market value of that input or do you think say had Heather M been married to him for 20 years she should have got 50% of £400m because her time at home was worth what he built up over that time, assuming they both started out with nothing and over 20 years he earned that and she earned nothing?

Xenia, are you Rod Liddle in disguise?

You don't seem to be able to come to terms with what happened in your divorce.

The history of divorce law in this country has been a slow, step by step improvement for women by recognising the joint economic value of the stay at home partner. You seem to want a return to the dark ages.

Why would you want to even compaere them though?

I cannot have a serious conversation with you about relationships - they always come down to 'transactions' with you. It's like knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

I dont agree that the laws entitle Heather to this money - she had £8M when she went into the marraige, as she stated herself, the majority of HIS money was earnt before she married him. Therefore, she should have just walked away with the £8M and any money from Paul should only have been entented for Bea.

But that is just my opinion. I know that myself and DH are not earning millions, but I doubt that if the worst happened and we split that we would attempt to make claims on one another - just split everything equally and ensure our DD was fairly provided for.

By the way, bringing this back to a slummy level, The Sun's front page today highlights Heather's quotes on how she will pay for her daughter to go A class seeing as Paul wont, but The Sun has published a travel list where Bea is going to be travelling "B Class" whilst Heather is in "A Class". Not that I buy the Sun, am at my parents and unpacked their shopping to discover it in their bags

entented - WTF intended

Except that she didn't have £8m going into the marriage, or anywhere near that sum, as proved during the course of the hearing.

last night i dreaned i was married to Paul. It was lovely! I was so sad when he married Linda, I cried so I feel t hat now he is available, perhaps it is my turn? DH wouldn't mind I'm sure

maybe if you called yourself rock&roll instead of ska

The point is ladies........as my fellow partner at work says ( he deals with alot of high level divorces and is a man ) Marriage is not a meal ticket for life and that is what Heather Mills was trying to make it.

All this bollocks about a and b class travel is rubbish. Its about what are her needs and to what extenet should sir paul provide. It was a 4 year marriage FGS !

o wonder marriage rates in this country are falling. Its enough to put any hard working bloke off for life!

I don't believe that HM had 8 million pounds before she married PM. The judge asked her to produce her tax returns stating this. She couldn't. She was lying. She made one property investment with the money she got from suing the police for making her legless and had a mortgage on another property because she was a minor celeb who talked about mogelling without a leg

The judge said she had said she had 1 - 2 million on marriage. he then said I think that there as no evidence of that as in virtually all areas where had asked for evidence and documents she did not produce it but he would take it that the 1 - 2 was right and I think he implied it was mostly given by Paul M before the marriage actually...

Ah just read scatty's post - that's right she'd had her damages from the leg accident and that was about it.

Just the blokes MP's?

Monkeytrousers - completely agree with you that it is impossible to have a serious conversation with Xenia about man-woman relationships and it is extremely frustrating and somehow disappointing that despite all the time Xenia spends on MN she doesn't gain any insights...

..Bit nasty