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....

As this thread seems to have gone decidedly French, perhaps the phrase cherchez la femme might be of relevance in this big money divorce case.

the woman was a gold digger and is clearly grinning now like the cat who got the cream.

The case is a step forward for feminism.

A comment that surprises me from Mozhe is as follows:

"If I was a man I would not get married....too risky...you'd never know when you were going to be taken to the cleaners"

Surely being taken to the cleaners is a risk for both men and women?

It is more of a risk for men currently, although some well off women with breadwinning responsabilities have also had to make big pay outs....

Stig...but he was also a contributor to the marriage,( presumably he had sex with her, talked to her, supported her emotionally....plus I think he even bought her parents a house !),the family AND he worked...so he should be able to keep a bigger portion..

Mohze, whilst they were married it was joint money so surely he didn't buy her parents a house, they bought her parents a house, maybe because the parents did a lot of babysitting or something.

Mohze - I don't think that it is possible to make the assumption that the man contributed more to the relationship than the woman because he worked for money and she stayed at home.

Personally I see quite a lot of couples around me where men contribute nothing more than cash and everything else is contributed by the woman.

Do you just bait people for fun on MN Mohze ?

You absolute BORE, mozhe.

and, thinking about it, I even know a few where the men don't even contribute cash... they have play jobs...

What is a play job ?

I am not baiting anybody I am genuinely putting forward my thoughts and ideas....as you both are.Interestingly I don't feel the need to hurl insults at you....

play job = ones that don't make any money eg entrepreneur who barely covers his costs doing something he thinks sounds sexy, novelist (unpublished or books pulped)...

"Stig...but he was also a contributor to the marriage,( presumably he had sex with her, talked to her, supported her emotionally....plus I think he even bought her parents a house !),the family AND he worked...so he should be able to keep a bigger portion.. "

Er.... he did keep a bigger proportion. She only got 36% of the overall wealth generated during their marriage - so he got 64%

The husband argued that he had made a "special" contribution - ie made simply pots of money.

As Stig said - she only got a third - so the courts effectively agreed with him.

Why has she got £48m? Well there is the small issue of the promise her husband made ... "with ALL my worldly goods I thee endow"

Enlighten me, what exactly is the French model of marriage?

And if she's a gold-digger, it seems to me she dug for a blardy long-time.

French model of marriage is a complete rip-off for women:

• you don't put your money in the same pot
• but you become liable for each others' debts, parents in old age and this is basically a nightmare if you are not French because it's not reciprocated outside France
• you pay inheritance tax when your husband dies before you (pretty likely) and have to move out of your home because your children will inherit as well as you
• you pay a higher tax rate than your husband if you are the second earner
• no alimony worth talking of on divorce

Should I go on? Don't get married in France.

Oh, and you are a sex object before you are a mother. Don't even think of putting your children first ever...

pmsl at a gold digger marrying a penniness man and having children with him and staying with him for 28 years
pretty rubbish gold digger

mozhe - I supported my dh for several years and was the main breadwinner. now I stay at home and look after the children full time while he works. and have done for four years.

I currently earn nothing and haven't for ages.

so if we divorced, when should I get?

£2. 50

and thats for your bus fare out of town......

He was the one who grafted hard, came up with the ideas and stuck his neck out..

If he took risks in his business whilst married, then he was also risking his wife's and childrens' financial situation. She shared the risk, and if he had gone bankrupt, she would no doubt have shared the hardship and drop in lifestyle. So, having 'stuck her neck out' too - she is entitled to an equal share of assets gained during the time they were in the marriage partnership.

lol at dosby and vvv! £2.50 wont get you out of town round here.

Its funny how when children get out of control its down the the parents or rather their lack of valuable parental input and guidance. But when someone puts a financial value on parental contribution of someone who works inside the home apparently for many people that financial value should not be worth very much.
iyswim

"and thats for your bus fare out of town...... "

So, still no mention of my new inner tube to to bike it out of town, then??

isn't someone going to kill this thread? A sort of mercy killing???

I don't know harpsi.. what do you think you should get ? And then what do you think you would get ?

Do you not approve then Anna ?