Court tells lottery winner to pay ex wife 2 mill

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Found this via Vox Day's blog:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331925/Lottery-winner-Nigel-Page-pay-ex-wife-2m-left-10-years-ago.html

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£56m lottery winner ordered to pay £2m to ex-wife who left him for another man TEN YEARS ago

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Last updated at 2:04 PM on 22nd November 2010

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A £56million lottery winner has been ordered to pay £2million to his ex-wife who walked out on him ten years ago.

Nigel Page, 44, was sued by his former wife Wendy shortly after his massive Euromillions windfall earlier this year even though she left him for another man.

The human resources director, 43, who is the mother of his 13-year-old daughter, is thought to have wanted £8million.

She received a lump sum of £2million in an out-of-court settlement, which she celebrated yesterday when she was spotted with a bottle of Champagne as she left her luxury Gloucestershire home with a mystery man.

Mr Page is believed to be the first lottery winner to be successfully sued by an ex-partner for a percentage of their winnings.

Despite his heartbreak when his wife walked out with his then-three-year-old daughter, Mr Page had decided to offer his ex £1million following his jackpot win in February.

But Wendy is believed to have instructed her lawyers to fight for up to £8million.

'Nigel feels very hurt,' a source told The Sun. 'The last seven months have been horrendous for him. What Wendy has done has ruined everything...

'Nigel has always provided for their daughter. Even when he was out of work he made sure she was all right. And right from the start Wendy was going to get a big gift.' Wendy is also thought to have won a huge increase in maintenance payments for their daughter, up from £150 to £2,000 per month.

Legal experts today said it is likely the couple failed to include a legally-binding 'clean break' arrangement in their divorce settlement.

Should the clause have been included, Wendy would have been highly unlikely to have won her out-of-court settlement.

Following his £56million win, Mr Page, from Barnsley, Gloucestershire, wed his girlfriend Justine Laycock. The pair, who are both divorcees, are understood to have married at a register office over Easter with staff standing in as witnesses.

They then whisked Mr Page's daughter Ella and Mrs Page's children Georgia and Jacob and other relatives away for a luxury holiday in Dubai.

The bill for the party, at the exclusive Atlantis The Palm resort, is said to have reached £70,000.

On their return they moved into a £4million environmentally-friendly mansion - leaving their old £400,000 home to their cleaner, Denise Kelso.


Worst thing in my mind is, the guy went out and married his girlfriend....


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Worst thing in my mind is, the guy went out and married his girlfriend....


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Nov 22, 2010, 01:37 PM Last Edit: Nov 22, 2010, 07:23 PM by outdoors
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Worst thing in my mind is, the guy went out and married his girlfriend....

dumb-ass

Billy

Yes dumbass

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BRIAN

Good luck to him. I hope number two doesn't take him for half.
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hell he could pay half that and get her lee harvey'd
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Quentin0352

Now if the ex had won, do you think the courts would have ruled he was entitled to a huge amount? Hell, he was even going to be nice and just give her a big amount but that just wasn't good enough for the Princess who ran off to another man. After all, it is what SHE wants and nothing else should matter. I am surprised they didn't just tell him to hand it all over with intertest the way they are ruling anymore.

As a matter of fact, they just ruled a woman didn't have to pay her ex a month ago when they split and she was the rich one so why did they do this? Oh yeah, she was the rich one there and they left room for only women to do shit like this and it rule in their favor.

LSBeene

My problem with this is the notion that what he gained, AFTER the failure of the relationship, is somehow hers.  Regardless of gender, to which I think I'd be singing to the choir here as to there being a pro-female bias in our courts, is that it clearly shows that:

1)  Our legal profession has become (and already is) a clear money making machine for the lawyers

2)  That the MAN is somehow a slave to the woman for the rest of his life.  That is not hyperbole.  A wife is, ideally, a life partner who shares in all the good and bad, and with whom an intimate relationship is shared.  There is no intimate relationship, and she shares in (nor is obligated to be around for) any of the rough days he may have.  He is therefore, for all intents and purposes her slave.  He must give of what he has, with no reciprocal expectations, nor with them having any mutually supportive relationship.

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