Divorce Stories
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Use the form below to tell us of your Divorce, the good bits, the bad bits and especially any funny bits. Divorce Jokes are welcome too, at times like this laughter is the best medicine.
I went away to work in the USA for about 2 weeks and when I came home my wife had cleared the house out, I didn’t hear from her for 2 years then I got a letter from some Solicitor requesting a Divorce on grounds of separation or something and was told she wanted the house and half my pension.
We’d only been married fro a couple of years but I ended up having to pay her half the equity in the house and about £8k in stead of letting her get her hands on my pension.
I didn’t feel as if I’d done anything wrong but I was the one paying, there’s got to be somethig wrong with that!
Hi Liam,
You may feel hard done by but I have a friend and business colleague who at this moment is in his 24th month of wrangling with his wife and this is after making 23 financial settlement offers – all weighted in her favour. She is insistent to take it to the limit and the Final Hearing is in February 2011. She has a solicitor bill of £9,000 and for some reason thinks that pushing her spouse to the limits will result in his folding and settling for less. He now has legal aid and it looks like he’ll receive more than she wanted him to – a great result! The reason for including this is that you had 2 years of solitude, quiet, no solicitors, no barracking and were able to get on with your life. If you ever decide to marry again contact me and I’ll support you with a Pre-Nuptial Agreement – by the time your next wife leaves you – who knows they may well be legal and acceptable in the UK…worth doing. Best wishes and luck for the future…
I divorced my husband for unreasonable behaviour which involved abuse. He had not worked during most of our marriage, mainly through choice, and I had supported him and his 2 children from a previous marriage despite him claiming support from their mother which he kept. When I left – for my own safety – The courts decided that the pension I had accumulated because I HAD to work to support him, should be taken into consideration. I had nothing ut my clothes from the house and he refused me even pictures of my dead mother. He had a loan on a car which the court took into consideration but the loans I had to take out to replace my car, pay deposit on renting a home and furnishing it were not considered. It is going to end up that when the house is sold I will have to pay off my debts and he has none plus 60% of the proceeds. I will end up with nothing and possibly in debt. He walks away with around £60,000 and a solicitor’s bill for £2k. Because he deliberately refused to answer any of my solicitor’s letters in order to push up the costs I have to pay around £13k. Basically an abusive bully who sits on his backside and lets someone else look after him and his children will get all the benefit and the woman who went out to work and could not escape his bullying walks away in debt. Oh and he is 7 years younger so able to get another mortgage where as I am now too old and too broke as he has taken everything I worked all my life for. And they say the law is fair. I suspect many have been in this position and the courts and solicitors shouold maybe look at the results of their decisions to see how many victims end up on the streets or even suicidal.