Divorce payouts

[Jubber]

Well that's going to be law soon for people who have been co-habiting for 2 years. Not sure if it'll always be a 50 - 50 split but I can see a good trousering in store for a lot of people from those lovely family lawyers.

Oh yes - plan B KERCHING


Is old Mel back on the booze again? He was off it for years, but then he "had a few" and got in a lot of trouble abusing that Jewish Cop in blackout.

[gingerjedi]

To be fair, I'm sure that Mel Gibson can scrape by on the other £300m+

Spare a smirk for Ray Parlour though, not only did his ex-missus get half his worth, she got half his future earnings as well... If he wasn't an irritating ginger tw@t you might feel sorry for him.

Oi no need for that!

I thought the same but he went up in my estimation when I read this:

Hoddle’s ineptness at man-management was only compounded when he brought in faith healer Eileen Drewery as an official adviser to the England team. While some players, like Darren ‘Sicknote’ Anderton, believed in Drewery’s healing powers (and a fat lot of good that’s done him), there were others who were quite rightly sceptical.

When, at Hoddle’s insistence, Drewery put her hands on Ray Parlour’s head, the Arsenal midfielder reportedly responded by asking for a ‘short, back and sides please’. Parlour was subsequently omitted from the 1998 World Cup squad.

[PayMatters]

If you've got 600m does paying out 300m matter?! An expensive affair though!!

[AtW]

There should be a maximum payout limit of £1 mln unless it can be proven that the wife earned that money herself. Perhaps joint accounts should be outlawed - every adult should be grown up enough to deal with their own finances.

[BrilloPad]

Theres a news today about Mel Gibson's wife could get half of his wealth after 28 years marriage.

I always wonder and would like to know the reason, how on earth it is justifyable to handout someones hard earned earnings to someone with whom he is seperating anyways.

If someone has earned all his money by himself, he would definitely share with wife when they are still in relation but why if they are seperating?

Why the law is such naive ??

Perhaps he should have thought about it BEFOE getting married.

[zara_backdog]

Where did I go wrong

Took me 8 years to get a divorce from my Ex, I paid the morgage for the 8 years we was togeather, and then 2 years afterwards, cost me several solicitors fees, my pension and after selling the house which was in my name only he got 90K and I got 10K.

Mrs Gibson - go for it.....

[Cyberman]

I think the point I was trying to make was, that as a Dental Nurse she is hardly capable of making a fortune for herself. She has gotten used to being married to a rich actor but now wants to split off from him but keep the lifestyle she has become accustomed to.

This last point really grinds my gears - if you can get "accustomed" to not working and living the high life you can sure as hell get re-accustomed to getting out of bed in the morning, going to work and not living the high life anymore. Just ask anyone on here who is currently benched...

Talentless people who choose to divorce talented rich people should be cut off from the cash from day one - if you no longer want to be a part of that persons life, why on earth should their money be a part of yours!?!?!?

She's been his wife for 28 years and borne his children. There is no doubt she deserves half his wealth because marriage is an equal partnership after all of those years and both partners bring different but equally valuable attributes to the table, his as the earner and hers as the nurturer.

[SizeZero]

She's been his wife for 28 years and borne his children. There is no doubt she deserves half his wealth because marriage is an equal partnership after all of those years and both partners bring different but equally valuable attributes to the table, his as the earner and hers as the nurturer.

It scares me how often I find myself agreeing with you.

[vetran]

Maybe

He made most of his money while he was with her, so she should recieve a significant amount. However wonderful she may be as a 'nurturer' she can't be worth half of his fortune, he could have had 4 round the clock nannies and multiple working girls for the last 28 years for a 100th of the amount. Bet they wouldn't look dowdy in the morning or nag him about the dishes.

It astounds me how people honestly believe that a minor earner should receive half the wealth developed in a marriage once a reasonable level of living is assured (say the RR £5M pension pot). Unless they clearly enabled the making of the fortune then no IMHO.

When these fortunes are involved then its reasonable to investigate the level of involvement of both parties. If both husband and wife have been equal throughout then its fair to divide the spoils, for instance Brad Pitt & Jennifer Anniston should be able to clearly identify each payday and divide accordingly.

If you make a billion because you work initially with a partner in business are they entitled to the same share if you work 18 hour days and provide most of the effort and expertise while they occasionally do the accounts? Not according to the taxman they aren't.

Treat these divorces like business not a lottery.

Any of these celebrity divorces have to pass the HMMcCartney test, do they deserve the cash because of their input? Heather didn't wash dishes so Paul could go to music school, did Mrs Gibson I wonder? Did Mrs Gibson have credits on his films? If Mrs Gibson had never married him would his financial situation have been substantially the same?

[NotAllThere]

...how on earth it is justifyable to handout someones hard earned earnings to someone with whom he is seperating anyways...

He earned that money? He got paid it. Not quite the same thing.

If that happened to me I would quit work immediately. Future earnings? What future earnings?

Gosh, that's clever. Rather than have half my future earnings, I'll have none of it.

Together JamieMoles and denver2k are witty. Apart, they're half that.