Alimony/"maintenance" 30 years later

Started by FP, Jun 27, 2007, 11:03 PM

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Virtue

I was going to post something about simply not getting married.....then I realized they will take your money with the courts anyway....Then I was going say something about changing the system....we'll see about that....
Imagine waking up tomorrow to find
that unbelievably rape is now legal.

You would be freaking out, telling everyone you ran into this is crazy- something needs to be done... now!!! And then every man you told this to just very smugly and condescendingly says...

"Hey... not all men are 'like that.'"

FP


shiva

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This is a generalization:

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There are only three things in the world that women do not understand; and they are Liberty, Equality and Fraternity  -  Unknown?


Maybe I missed it, but I didn't find who you got that quote from. I take it that you weren't attributing it to Gonzokid although you quoted it under a quote of his, so then is this a random quote from someone else that you've forewarned to be a generalization?
The above is the individual opinion of shiva. Unless stated otherwise, it's just an opinion; please do not confuse with a certified expert's individual opinion.

poiuyt

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2141118.ece

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A multimillionaire succeeded yesterday in stopping the woman whom he divorced nearly 30 years ago from claiming a slice of his fortune after she fell on hard times.

Dennis North, 70, a retired builder from near Sheffield, had appealed against the decision made by a family judge last year to award £202,000 from his retirement fund to his ex-wife, Jean North, whom he divorced in 1978.

Mrs North, 64, had left him and their three children for another man and the couple had divorced with a financial settlement that gave Mrs North a "reasonable" lifestyle.
But after her finances took a turn for the worse she returned to court to seek a further award from her former husband in what Mr North called "a second bite of the cherry".
Mr North, whose fortune is estimated at between £5 million and £11 million, argued that it was "simply unjust" that he should have to make another payment so long after the original settlement, particularly because his former wife's financial state was a result of her own lifestyle choices.

In a rare court victory for a husband, the Court of Appeal agreed with Mr North, ruling that the second award was "fundamentally flawed".

Lord Justice Thorpe, sitting with Lord Justice May and Mr Justice Bennett, ruled that Mrs North may still be due "some modest award" from her former husband, but it would not approach the six-figure sum that she had previously been granted.

The judge said that it was the court's "overarching objective" to be fair to both sides. But he said of Mr North: "He is not an insurer against all hazards nor, when fairness is the measure, is he liable for needs created by the applicant's financial mismanagement, extravagance or irresponsibility.

"The prodigal former wife cannot hope to turn to a former husband in pursuit of a legal remedy, whatever may be her hope that he might, out of charity, come to her rescue." The appeal judges will decide before the end of this month after considering written arguments whether Mrs North is still entitled to anything at all from her husband.

The couple split up in 1977 and were divorced the following year, with the three children staying with their father. Mr North divorced his wife when he found that she was having an affair with a friend of his. In 1981 they hammered out what he believed to be a final agreement, under which he gave her a house in Sheffield, and paid her ground rents that he received on various properties that he owned in the area.

By the late 1990s Mrs North had accumulated investments worth £328,000. But her fortunes declined when she emigrated to Australia in 2002.

As a result of a series of "unfortunate" investments, based on alleged poor advice, her assets dwindled by more than £100,000 over the next two years.

In March last year Mrs North, who lives in Sydney, applied to the High Court in the UK to vary the terms of the 1981 divorce settlement to provide for her basic needs and, in April, a district judge awarded her £202,000.

District Judge Peter Greene awarded her the lump sum, despite finding that Mrs North's problems were "entirely of her own making" and that Mr North had no further responsibility towards her.

Lord Justice Thorpe said yesterday that that approach had been "fundamentally flawed" and the appeal should be allowed. He said that any settlement must be fair to both parties and it did not follow that Mr North was responsible financially for any of Mrs North's needs.

He added: "Even the applicant's subjective sense of fairness should surely not encourage her to expect that someone from whom she was divorced so many years ago should be required in law to compensate her for the financial consequences of ill-advised choices."

Mr Justice Bennett said he agreed that there had been an "illogical inconsistency" on the part of District Judge Greene.

"Having found that the husband played no part in, and should not be held responsible for, the depletion of the wife's finances, the district judge nevertheless jumped to the impermissible conclusion that the wife was entitled to an order of periodical payments."



Oh, so there is still a possibility that this wretched and wayward woman may still gain something from this poor man whom has only done the right and honest things by himself all his life?

Why will the system not make an example of this nonsense person of an ex-wife as a warning to others of her kind whom roam up and down the land with impunity. That is, in search of a comfortable situation in which to insert theselves as victim ?

Look, chauvenist-biggot whom ever you are, by your actions and the actions of your mass supporters you are only recking civilised community. Your chivalry however benignly intented has malign and barbaric consequences. And if you please, desist from sanctifying it as "our civilised and progressive way of life". What such civilised or progressive way of life is supported by a so called "christian values" the foundation of which is theft of other peoples property.

1 A man is not put on this earth to be made responsible for another adults food, drink, clothing, shelter or pocket money, however much of a dependant pig that other adult is or is conditioned to be. And neither does he have legitimate children in order to owe child support to another as a ransome on their behalf.

2 It cannot be made the responsibility of one households members the provision of sustennance for another households members. Otherwise degeneracy, weakness and immorality result from the fact of freely obtained fodder for bastards, harlots, prostitutes and other anti-socials. Any free provision for this lot isnt social justice but social suicide.

3 It only serves as encouragement to hard criminals who also wish to live for free and salivate over other peoples property; when they see women entitled for free, purely as a matter of their sex to other peoples property.

4 Over the long term in a society of freely obtained alimoney, child support and other legal parasitisms, the number of workers prepared to work honestly and legaly for their daily bread decreases in direct proportion to increases in all other economic vermin. You see this inevitable result in the western nations crime and incarceration rates.

Alien Love Child

I have a buddy at work who has been seperated from his estranged wife for about 3 years. They just went through a divorce, he was married to this woman for over 20 years, raised her children from a previous marriage as his own. They are all grown now and married off, one is a frequent flyer in the judicial system for drug related issues.  She decided she wanted another man.  This guy bought with his wife a campground, had a great business, owned rental property.  They decided together to have her maintain the business and he would still work.  Well, guess what? He lost everything, he had to sell the homes, sell the campgrounds.  He also gets the blame for her being out of the "workforce" for 8 years and the lifestyle she is used to has to be maintained by him.  She works, under the table, makes good money, doesn't matter.  My buddy is in his late 40's, she in her 50's. Trust me folks, never again, never never never will I marry again.

poiuyt

What would Glenn Sacks or indeed the entire leadership of the mens movement have said if for example this harrassed man reacted like Darren Mack ?

Note that this sickly ex-wife of a person, surborned by the Appeals Court, hasnt been ordered to pay her ex-husbands costs of defence. Nor have the Judges absolutely closed out the case against a 30 year-long divorcee giving his ex-wife "something reasonable".

In short, a precedent is here being set in favour of long lost parasites, scroungers and other economic vermin returning to their abandoned host, for more, ... and more, ... and more... ad infinitum. That is as long as the sum demanded is reasonable every time !!!





shard43

After a demand of $200,000, maybe $100,000 would be considered reasonable by the courts.  :rolle:

poiuyt

It was clear this case was to serve as a thin end of the wedge to force cash, property, alimoney and other resources out of husbands, decades after separation.

And we now have its legal development in aid of other roving parasites in england, scotland, wales and northern ireland.

Notice also how easy it is becomming for some men to come across all liberal, caring and charitable to women with other mens hard earned income and property.

Divorce settlement granted after 22 years
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6489253.ece


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A woman has won £220,000 in a ground-breaking divorce settlement -- 22 years after separating from her husband.

They were married only four years before they split up but they never formally divorced.

The woman, who is in her fifties and lives in West London, was prompted to bring her claim after learning that her husband had secured a windfall by inheriting some money.

The couple met in 1979 and lived together until 1982, marrying that year. They separated in 1986, after the birth of one child. After their separation, the husband, who lives in the Republic of Ireland, inherited £120,000 that he invested in property, selling it in January last year for about £1.1 million.

The woman's solicitor, Naim Qureshi, a partner with the law firm Healys, which is based in London and Brighton, explained: "The main reason that she did not divorce earlier is because their child was very young, and she did not want all the anguish of a messy divorce at that time. Now, their son is an independent adult."

Mr Qureshi said that another factor was that the woman's former husband, who works occasionally as a chef, had come into an inheritance.

"She had borne the brunt, with almost no maintenance, of bringing up their son single-handedly, and felt that she had a potential claim."

Her lawyers argued that the woman had been financially disadvantaged because of her husband's lack of emotional or financial support during the marriage and because of his minimal provision for the support of their child after they separated.

The lawyers argued that she needed a fund to provide her with long-term security for housing and pension provision. Mr Qureshi said that the court had agreed with the woman's claim and awarded her sufficient to house herself, while leaving enough for her former husband to buy another property.

The solicitor said: "She is extremely happy and felt that the court has taken account of her contribution in supporting their son. She does feel a great deal of satisfaction and vindication."

The woman, who works in a company that produces online educational materials, does not wish to be identified.

Mr Qureshi said that although the inheritance had occurred after the separation, it was the only real asset in the case.

The court had accepted that the woman did have a "need" and ruled that therefore it would have to be met from the inherited asset -- the proceeds from the property sale.

"If the need can be met without injustice to the husband, and without preventing him from meeting his own needs, then the court should strive to meet the need of the wife," Mr Qureshi added.


davis2ab


Its not just 30 years.  She went to the other side of the blasted planet.  This defies understanding. How can a man be responsible for someone he hasn't seen in 30 years and who has been living on the other side of the planet?

What this tells me is that a man is never really divorced from a woman. She is divorced from him but he is not divorced from her. I see signals of this lots of places. Like, the news media kept acting like OJ was married to Nicole Simpson even though he wasn't.   I have people refer to my ex wife as my wife 7 years after divorce, etc. (this includes child support authorities).

Divorce means that a man has lost the benefits of marriage (although I cannot really identify any) but he still has all the obligations. It is true that you are married until "death do you part."

Galt

I remember the liberal blowhard Ted Kennedy also had a problem like this several years ago. One of his former wives, who had gotten a healthy settlement from him, just spent all the money and then tried to get more out of him years and years after the divorce. My fuzzy memory is that he settled with her out of court (and I think because she "mentioned" that if he didn't give her more money she would be forced to write a tell-all book or something like that).

Galt

Another famous spend-it-all woman was the former wife of the rich guy / arms dealer Adnan Kashogi.

His wife got a settlement of something like $80 million (and that was back in the early 1970s, when that was REAL money, LOL).

In the 1980s, I saw a small item in the newspaper that she may have to leave her house in London because she couldn't pay the rent.

She blew through all of that money giving parties and the like.

poiuyt

Do these bottom-feeding, parasite-minded stinkers ever go away ?

Do they ever just get the f**king hell lost ?

When you say its over for you ... its damn well over for him too, whatever your appetite, greed or vanity tells you !

Talk of needing a man like a fish needs a bike ... when its more like the shameless and lazy imbecile needing the ever nescessary drip-feed of other peoples income and property.

Who encourages these people anyway ?

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202433513766&rss=newswire

Impoverished Woman Loses Bid to Increase $100 a Week Alimony

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Their marriage was as short as it was spontaneous. Jan and Leonard S., as they are known in their divorce proceedings, married in August 1966 during a three-day stopover in Acapulco. They were told the marriage would make it easier for Jan to obtain a visa for Australia, where Leonard was headed on a Fulbright scholarship.

Jan obtained her visa, and the couple returned to the United States 13 months later, at which time they immediately and permanently separated -- Leonard headed to New York, Jan to Maryland.

The couple's fortunes also diverged. Leonard made a substantial fortune as a businessman and financier; Jan became homeless, and mentally and physically ill.

Now, nearly 40 years after she first filed for divorce and 35 years after she agreed to $100 per week for life in alimony -- as spousal support was still known when the couple divorced in 1974 -- Jan has sought an upward modification, citing a substantial change of circumstances and the danger of her becoming a "public charge."

In a lengthy, sympathetic decision, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew F. Cooper has denied that request. "[T]here is no compelling reason why [Leonard] should be held any more responsible than society as a whole for what has happened to the ex-wife. Nothing in the record suggests that he caused [her] problems or that anything involving their marriage somehow contributed to her leading the life that she has," Cooper wrote in Jan S. v. Leonard S., 35438/1971. "The ex-husband has faithfully complied with the obligations imposed on him by the divorce decree and he has not missed making a single alimony payment over the past thirty-five years. No matter how great the ex-wife's difficulties may be, her life is not the ex-husband's cross to bear. There is no reason why he should shoulder any greater responsibility for her than he already has."

In his 17-page decision, Cooper wrote that the case's "sad and unusual facts" seem as if they sprang from a Victorian novel rather than an American divorce.

Since returning from Australia, Leonard, now 71, has headed several prominent national corporations. He has been profiled by Forbes.com and Smart Business and named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Jan, now 67, has received public assistance since at least 1971, the year she, too, moved to New York. She suffers from an unspecified mental disability, according to the decision, and needs medical and dental work that she estimates could cost more than $100,000.

Since the couple entered into a divorce agreement in 1974, Jan has four times moved for an upward modification, including the present motion.

While the motion raised several substantive and procedural issues -- including the standard for confirming a special referee's report and whether a woman who has received public assistance for more than three decades could be at risk of becoming a public charge -- the judge's decision turned on a philosophical one.

"Just how far does [Leonard's] duty to care for [his] ex-wife extend?" Cooper wrote.

"It is impossible not to acutely feel how great the tragedy is that has befallen this woman's life. ... By the same token, it is hard not to have some empathy for the ex-husband as well. ... Today, most couples who divorce after short-term childless marriages divide their property, say goodbye, and never have to deal with one another again. The ex-husband, of course, has met a far different fate here. Instead of being able to close the book on a painful chapter from his youth, he has grown old forever tied to the ex-wife by the alimony provision of the 1974 divorce decree."

Ultimately, the judge rejected Jan's arguments that a change of circumstances or the possibility of her becoming a public charge merited an upward modification of the alimony.

"The ex-husband is directed to continue paying the ex-wife alimony in the sum of $100 a week," the judge concluded. "The award will continue at this amount until the death of either the ex-husband or the ex-wife."

The decision does not name the parties nor their attorneys
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