British businessman Dennis North’s wife Jean left him 30 years ago after she began seeing another man. Their split became official in 1981, when they signed an agreement that granted Jean their house and income from rents on their various properties.
North went on to be a wildly successful businessman, while his ex-wife never worked. However, a judge has just ordered North to pay Jean a large lump-sum payment because she has “fallen on hard times” due to a number of money-losing investments.
Deborah Bangay, QC, for Mrs North, said: “This was not a second bite at the cherry but it is what are her reasonable needs. The court was entitled to take into account the obvious wealth of the former husband.”
She said it was not Mrs North’s fault that her investments had gone wrong.
So, to recap: This woman destroys her marriage, never gets a job, lives well beyond her means, loses a ton of money in bad investments, then gets a large cash payment for her trouble?
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the f#$king you get for the f&*king you got. On the other hand maybe someone really believed the “till death do us part” part.
Considering she was the one who committed the original adultery, I don’t see why she was entitled to anything in the first place. Alimony laws exist to protect women who sacrifice a career to stay at home raising a family when they are cast aside by their husbands, not to protect lazy women who cheat on their husbands and expect a payment when he wants out.
“She said it was not Mrs North’s fault that her investments had gone wrong.”
Bullshit! Was it her ex-husbands fault?? God knows what she “invested” in.
I hope the rabid Austrailian and British tabloids get a hold of this story. That bloodsucker won’t be able to stick her face out of her free house without being photographed.
I guess gender equality only works in one direction. Women must now be admitted to every job available to men but they have not given up some of their old favorites such as “Completely Useless Parasite”
At minimum, he should at least be able to go bury a bone in her backyard – so to speak.
Sure she’s not a teenager?
You always pay for pussy….and you never go to the legal system for justice.
Well, well another woman making headlines so all of us look bad. I am sure another high dollar attorney got a chunk of that money too.
Let us remember it is not always the MAN who gets screwed in divorce. “Man destroys the marriage, abandons two children which he seems to think he has no obligation to support, tries to hide income by working for cash (can’t do income withholding then), lives high on the hog and then cries “what are these women doing to me” when it finally catches up with him.” Another ass who comes out smelling like a rose every time he is in trouble.
The idea is that she left the country before he completed making the maintenance alimony payments to her. Once she came back, many years later, she asked for a lump sum payment for the amount of time remaining (from way back then). The lump sum payment took into account the amount that the husband was making now and not what he was making when she left.
It almost makes sense. The truth is, though, that she just had the better lawyer. He could have won this.
#8
Yes this is defiantly a MEN ARE ASS story. Thanks for reminding us. I bet her attorney was a MAN also, attorneys can be such ass.
So to sum up:
MEN = ASS
ATTORNEY = ASS
WOMEN = ASS FOR MONEY
heh
9–Thats an interesting factoid. I can see it, still unfair even if restricted to interest only, but I can see the logic behind it.
Lets see, the alternative is she can go on welfare and everyone can pay for her, or just the rich guy. Again, not fair, but I can see it.
In GOUSA, most divorce is “no fault” when fault is present in every case to various degrees. Is GOUSA better off for ignoring the truth/justice for quicker resolution, or should more lives be mired away in court.
Pro’s and Con’s to every position
This is why my wife and I signed a pre-nup agreement. As we thought of it at the time it’s an agreement “to not be arseholes to each other” in the case that anything goes wrong in the future.
I am not saying I agree with the ruling, either. There should be a time limit on it.
#12 a pre-nup is only as good as the lawyer trying to defeat it. The very best pre-nup to get is to make sure your wife earns more money than you do.
How crappy was this guys attorney?
I bet shes hot.
#8 has a point. Usually it is the woman getting screwed in divorce proceedings. Only when the case is extreme, like this one, do we hear about it.
In the end I think she must have had the better attorney.
Maybe the Judge emigrated from the US.
The system is broken! Where’s the common sense?
#13…Ascii King….you should actually read the story. He not only made a settlement with her 30 years ago, but gave the home and made a large amount of investments for her so she would never need money. Oh, and HE raised the 3 kids. After a few years, she sold everything and went to Australia, where she proceeded to go broke.
The Judge agreed he didn’t owe her a dime….then ordered the man to pay her a half million dollars.
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This is NOT unusual in Britain Fusion, well, this particular case is unusal, but the man getting screwed isn’t. It’s now to the point that even the House of Lords has taken note that the divorce settlements granted in Britain have made it the place of choice for woman to file from their wealthy husbands. Another recent example, a woman who had a pre-nup(not binding in the UK, a Judge can throw it out and usually does), was married to the guy for less than 2 years, and was proven to be committing adultry….he offered her 1 million pounds….she got from the Judge, 6 million pounds. It actually is having an effect on marriage, men who are making large amounts of money and will be doing so for many years to come are refusing to get married. But, the leftist liberal/labour goverment wasn’t going to let that happen, so just last month they extended divorce awards to co-habitating couples as well now.