This woman's divorce settlement sets back the cause of feminism.....

[mozhe]

.....£48 million for 28 years of marriage ! I wonder what she did for that...She stayed home and bought up 2 children,( now long grown..), gave some dinner parties, presumably shopped and enjoyed herself but as far as I can see she didn't actually participate in her DHs buisness dealings....so why has she got £48million ?

Answers on a postcard....

So unless you have a job that doesn't involve children, you are not gainfully employed?

I'd love to know what your maternity nurse thinks of that.

Presumably your children go to school, are teachers included in your sneery view

Just read the story properly - he turned down HER offer to settle for £12m and he's a tax exile in Bermuda FGS!

mozhe is a bore. sherlock was right in the first instance.

She has had 2 children, but both are long off her hands,( and born 11 years apart so she was hardly run off her feet at the time...),so for last x years she could have rebuilt a career for herself.

Or perhaps,( if she was such a buisness asset to DH) insisted that she take an active and equal part in the 'empire'...for whatever reason she chose not to..Fair enough it's her choice..maybe she did a bit of charity work, liked to lunch, shop, do up her house,( worth £2.7mill, which she gets to keep ) and work out in the gym.Then along comes the day when it all goes belly up and DH trades her in for a younger model,( yes dear reader that is what happened...)....Horrid DH true, but she has had years and years of a good,( what am I saying FANTASTIC ), lifestyle that she probably fully enjoyed every minute of..OK sh emay have had to put up with giving tedious dinner parties to DHs buisness cronies when she would rather have been curled up in bed with a glass of Dom Perignon and the latest Jilly Cooper but all in all it wasn't too much of a slog..

What to do ? I don't know what the actual figure is that would be fair,( frankly is it fair that anyone should make £700mill ? who knows..),but I know it isn't £48 million...Apparently he offered,( how that makes me cringe...to be offered...horrible ), her £20million, and that frankly sound like to much too..

Enough for my new inner tube, then??

mozhe - I really really think that you should stay in academia and never return to clinical practice

Your post is ALL speculation.

I could post that perhaps he had a penchant for wearing her underwear, maybe he enjoyed sex with the cat, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

It would be as factual as most of your post.

Why does it matter so much to you?

Because she's its quite simple

You sound very envious of her though.

Ha ha Cammelia!

nope still don't agree with you but i think we don;t agree on several key issues night night femenist SAHMs and WOHMs alike

No...I didn't say nannying/teaching/maternity nursing weren't jobs...of course they are...You train to do these jobs, are interviewed, get paid, have holidays and can be sacked...I said being a parent wasn't a job/career/pastime,( last suggestion frankly ludicrous...)...

No, it's being a parent. So there is no financial amount that can be placed upon it.

Which is why you questioning the settlement here, based on envious speculation is making you look a bit half-baked.

It is a job though mohze, one that society relies on people doing. Even you are bringing up your children as a job, but subcontracting the work out more than most.

Apparently SHE offered to settle for £12m and he refused. They also lived at her parents' house when they first got married and she gave up her job at his request. The amount in millions is irrelevant, it's the proportion that is relevant.

What about Heather Mills McCartney then - she's supposedly going to get a similar amount for only a few years of marriage and very little in the way of support - she wasn't even around when he made his money.

i find all of your posts on this matter ludicrous, tbh.

It was on the front of the London Evening Standard this evening,( that DH bought over rather than leaving on the plane like he usually does..), and it grabbed my attention that's all...Of course am a bit ! Would love to buy an island like Xenia you see...never mind will just have to continue in ' wage-slavery'

Of course I'll be returning to clinical practice...

It isn't trivial...I have never said that. I take the rearing of children very seriously, and have never said it is unimportant....quite the oppasite.I just don't think it is a role exclusively for mothers....other people can do it too.