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 haven't read the details, but it sounds as though an interesting new precedent has been set in family law. As I understand it, the current legal starting point is that assets are split 50/50 even in a short marriage. She has clearly got a lot less than that, even though on a personal level she has done extremely well.

I thought she was one of those eco warrior types, though, so why does she need to fly places?

Paul McCartney gives me the heebie jeebies.

I still think £20m+ is plenty for HM. How much money does one need? She's done very well. Plus she has all her properties too. Seven of them, I believe I heard on the radio.

I hope they both disappear now and get on with their lives/work.

I love the fact that she went on about the flights.
To paraphrase Chandler Bing 'Is your wallet too small for your fifties and are your diamond shoes too tight?'

Jesus wept, what a nutter she is. I hope she manages to get some help with her millions, she certainly seems to need it.

I agree Elf, I just saw her on the news and if that woman's not stark raving bonkers then I'm a monkey.

I'm afraid I just do not like this woman one little bit.

She is not appealing against the amount but the decision to publish

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I'm still confused as to why they award so much money to these guys in the first place.

I always thought a divorce settlement was to provide security for the partner who would be worse off financially after a split - especially if there are kids involved.

For example - say a couple split up and they had two kids in school, some child-care and a full-time dad and a part-time mum, an amount would be paid as an allowance for the woman (if she took custody) to continue working but afford a house and more childcare or whatever. To live a simple life that doesn't thrust them into poverty.

Why is it that these famous money-grabbers take MILLIONS off their exes? What could they possibly need that for even if they have got kids to look after?

I just don't understand it.

You split up with someone who had lots of money they made themselves. You had lots of money. You don't now.

Where is the problem?

i think she's insane, FWIW.

the financial settlement is supposed to reflect the standard of living the less well off spouse is used to.
No idea about HM, but if say a family lived in a squllion pound house in Belgravia then its a bit unreasonable to expect them to move into a bedsit in dagenham because the husband ran off with the 19 year old babysitter...... this is all my own opinion of course and I'm sure bedsits in dagenham are lovely places.

dittany you say

'Most women who get large settlements have been instrumental in supporting their husband whilst he builds up his empire.'

What exactly did she do to support him? Was she an embryonic roadie when he was popping to Hamburg?

Did she hum to start of Yesterday to get him going on his magnum opus?

Or even the Frog Chorus.

I'd bet that the majority of his millions were in place before she came on the scene. In fact she admits this when she ways he was worth £800 million all those years ago. Before she met him

Does anyone else think that £35,000 pa (if I've got that right) for Beatrice seems quite low on the face of it? I'm not sure what it includes (clearly not school fees), but it's not exactly working on CSA guidelines is it?

I do actually feel a bit sorry for HM. She's been awarded a huge sum, which he earned before she came on the scene, but the settlement seems out of step with other large money divorces. She shouldn't have represented herself and I hope this case doesn't mean a return to the old days of complete uncertainty and confusion in divorces. I think she is her own worst enemy in lots of ways but isn't as bad as some people make her out to be.

i think she should have got the lot. i hate paul mccartney. . such is my reasoned, thought out opinion

actually the more i see her on the news the more i like her!

me too. Have just seen her on Channel 4 news with a shot of Fiona Shackleton's wet hair. She's a true original, what entertainment value! And I think she had some valid points about the legal world being a club and the judge having made his mind up in advance.

Evie - Did you see the judge's comments on C4... apparantly that is the normal process and she should have known that if she had legal counsel.

That was my husband's view too - that he got used to a particular standard of living on my earnings unlike most teachers' and was entitled to continue with that after the divorce.

HM comes over quite well in the interview - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7300931.stm

She is not appealing the sum. She got double what he'd offered her and his offer only went in at the last minute at £15m. She's just appealing details of her daughter and her life in the judgment being made public.