Feeling duped

[Tulip24]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone might be able to offer me some advice. My husband recently returned from a school trip to Kenya (he is a teacher ). Within 48 hours of his return he informed me he did not love me and hadn't for 4 years (both verbally and via text). As a result he walked out on our marriage. I had absolutely no idea this was coming, he had never discussed or shown me in anyway he felt like this. My issue is that we had only been married 6 months at this point (we married on the 9th August 2014) and I am struggling to cope with the fact my parents had spent approximately £13000 on our wedding/honeymoon. I would never have married him had I known his feelings and feel he has completely duped not only me but my parents out of their life savings. I was wondering if you could tell me whether I may have any kind of case in respects to obtaining any of my parents money back from him? Considering that he has openly admitted he hasn't loved me for so long and should never have married me. Any adice would be greatly appreciated.

I very much doubt you will be able to get anything back. I presume your parents paid for the wedding as a gift? If so then there was never any contract to pay it back.
I understand you feel duped but I'd imagine that your husband would state that even though he shouldn't have married you in hindsight, on that day he wanted to get married to you.

It isn't a nice situation and I feel for you, you hear about it a lot :-/ Again I doubt you have any recourse, your husband didn't gain financially from the wedding in cash terms. I guess he could also say he didn't want such an expensive wedding and it was you that wanted to spend 13k.

sorry, really sorry for your situation - but there will be no legal redress (unless - unlikely - the ending / honeymoon funding were a loan...)

There is no contractual claim here so no legal redress I'm afraid. The money was a gift, not payment for services rendered.

And in any case, you would be 50% liable for any money too!