Garlic Bread brought up an interesting topic. What are people's views on divorce? Especially with regards to some big divorce settlements that seem to be more and more common. Last year a wife was granted £48million in a divorce settlement. Should these payments be so high if they haven't contributed towards the income? Why should they get so much money when the other half has worked so hard to get it?

Heard the other day that Rupert Murdoch's wife got somthing like £1.7 BILLION in the divorce....No wonder Sky is so expensive.

If a husband or wife is in no way involved in the business I think it is unfair t o award such high settlements however i think that the main reason for such high settlements is the arguement that they have supported them in all their endeavors and raised the family while they went to work, etc. etc.


that said i reckon anyone stupid enough to get hitched in the first place deserves what they get as it is in essence now only a legaly binding contract.

Oh dear. Mugsey was stood up again :lolanimate:

It's a shambles, there should be a bigger burden of proof that the other half is entitled to the money they claim for on the basis of them aiding the other half in the wealth they have created, and not simply that they are the partner of a rich person and are therefore entitled to half. It's rightfully so, that in any break up you take back what is yours, and to use an example, cd's, dvd's etc, that you had rightful title to. However, the law should be changed from splitting the wealth to showing where the wealth has come from and how it was created. Did the wife have anything to do with the busineses of her husband in the £48 million case? I highly doubt it. It'll be interesting to see how the appeal goes, particularly with the McCartney's case soon to be heard.

I agree with general pricipal that if the partner has contributed towards the earning then that partner is Entitled to it.
But the big celebrity break ups are a shamble. Specially when the Marriage only lasted few years then the partner should only be entitled to a portion of any additional earnings during the marriage period not for the whole of the person's life. This would cut out some of the Sham marriages where everyone but the Rich partner knows what the hell is going on.

Like Stubbsy said it would be Interesting to see what out come is handed out to Paul M. There is no bearing of his marriage to Paul's earnings, but bet your bottom dollar she will end up with a sizeable chunck of it.

ha ha fecking ha there bud i was not she was just fashionably late, very late in fact i had to ring her 24 times before she turned up, but it was worth it she loked fab and even took me a pressie to apologise, shame when i opened it it turned out to be a restraining order.

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Oh fuck ya.....was enjoying that coffee an all.....

mugsey will you fuck off!!!!

i was just enjoying a rather splendid chicken fried rice untill that point!!!!















gonna be finding bits of rice stuck to the wallpaper for weeks :lolanimate:

Divorce seems to have become more acceptable in general. Whether this is a good thing or not i'm not entirely sure. However, I have never thought it is a good thing for parents to stay together 'for the sake of the kids'. Children are not stupid, they can tell when their parents aren't in love anymore, or not happy. When my parents got divorced it was great. They hated each other by that point so it was finally a relief. They have both since re-married and are happy again.

Sory, slightly off topic, but its about divorce.

I'll let you know in a few months maybe.......

From my own personal experience, it pissed me off that I had to get an extension on my mortgage to pay my ex off even though I spent 2 years of my life building a house with every spare moment I had whilst she sat at her fat arse at her mothers, and I had to give her 1/2 of the equity in the house and she even tried for an element of my pension!!! FFS. I appreciate the big numbers of £48m but when it hits the normal working man on the street, its hard to take.

All women are bastards!!! :lolanimate: (for clarity)

i agree winus the whole :lolanimate: thing, it'd kill me if some cow took half of what i had worked years to build up off me in a heartbeat just 'cause she had been fooolish enough toget with me in the first place.

And all men are potential rapists...



So i have been told, stop choking love and finish your meal..

I think marriage seems to have become more acceptable. I'm divorced, and got married because that's what people do. It didn't change the relationship, didn't make it better, didn't put any extra stress on it. Nothing.

We got divorced and it wasn't messy, but it was a pain in the arse. If you're not religious, why get married?

My sentiments entirely Jonno. My parents divorced when I was young- they should never have married in the first place, but things were very different then.
My ex was forever asking me to marry him, but it just didn't feel right, I stuck it out for as long as I could for the sake of my kids, but in the end it wasn't doing any of us any favours.
People are always asking Col and I when we're going to tie the knot, but it doesn't seem important to us right now.

I'm not religous, in fact i'm anti-religion. We got married mainly for the legal aspect of things, especially having a child. I knew the dangers that a divorce could bring and the bloody hassle after watching my parents go through it. Our relationship also didn't change as we had been living together for years before we did anyway. It was a great day though and we had a huge party that cost barely anything.

throwing my two pennies worth on this one, I ain't what you might call a conventionaly religous person i.e. I do believe in a higher being and the need to do good in order to please such a being (not a bad thing for your fellow man either this whole being good thing) but don't feel that this has anything to do with marriage. I feel that my religion and a deceision to get married will foerever be two distinct different parts of my life.

If i am ever to get married (which, as ever, for me seems unlikely at this given point) i want to do so as i am prepared to make a sworn statement of my intent to spend the rest of life with that given person regardless of what life may throw at us and would do so in hope that they were prepared to do the same. So call me an unrealistic twat if you will but if i am to marry to is going to be because i love someone and feel that no matter what is to happen to us this love will survive and help us get through thick and thin.

but like i said this ain't likely to affect me ever so my opinion could be said to hold feck all validity as i am as ever (AGAIN) looking in from the outside that affects others within society.