Divorced wives do not deserve maintenance for life, but our marital laws need an urgent overhaul
8 years ago

Divorced wives do not deserve maintenance for life, but our marital laws need an urgent overhaul

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Recently, a woman whose 39-year marriage was described as “loveless” was refused a divorce, because neither side was prepared to be named as “guilty”. Angelina Jolie speaks out about her divorce from Brad Pitt for the first time Many will have to resort to costly legal proceedings to resolve issues relating to property and financial affairs. London has become the divorce capital of the world as wealthy women seek to fleece their former spouses, asking for obscene amounts of “living” expenses long after hubbie has fled home. Lord Wilson, a senior law lord, has complained publicly about the concept of blame, saying reform is “long overdue”, and thinks prenuptial agreements should be binding, not something that a divorce judge can chuck out if they consider the terms unfair.

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Divorce for women: One big thing all the recent books are missing.
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Divorce for women: One big thing all the recent books are missing.

Slate  

I’m a child of divorce, “as if divorce were a parent,” as Leslie Jamison writes in her gorgeous memoir Splinters. And yet, I find myself wincing at recent dialogue sparked by divorce books by women in midlife, like Sarah Manguso’s Liars and Lyz Lenz’s This American Ex-Wife. There’s also an emotional cost to being single in a culture that very …

Divorce laws on dividing wealth to be rewritten
2 years ago

Divorce laws on dividing wealth to be rewritten

The Telegraph  

Laws on dividing wealth between divorced couples are to be rewritten to make it easier to avoid costly legal battles. “The Government thinks that the Law Commission is best placed to investigate all these matters, establish what the existing law and practice is and where the problems lie, and make comparative studies of various other jurisdictions, including Australia and elsewhere, …

Why women file for divorce more than men
2 years, 10 months ago

Why women file for divorce more than men

BBC  

Why women file for divorce more than men 13 May 2022 Share Save Katie Bishop Features correspondent Share Save Getty Statistically, women call time on their marriages more than men. “Also, because gender roles become more complicated as women start to gain financial independence, more marital conflict naturally arises.” In other words, women’s entry into the workforce enabled them to …

How divorce exacerbates the retirement crisis—especially if you’re a woman.
9 years ago

How divorce exacerbates the retirement crisis—especially if you’re a woman.

Slate  

Once upon a time, Monique Prince didn’t worry much about planning for retirement. Vox recently crunched data from the federal government’s National Survey of Family Growth and documented a significant falloff in the number of people who agreed that “divorce is usually the best solution when a couple can’t seem to work out their marriage problems.” The numbers all but …

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