Proposed new anti gold-digger law

I think all such decisions should be made on a case by case basis and not having a blanket law which doesn't consider individual circumstances, like children and joint investments in property etc.
 
Longbow said:
Well that's what the article says.
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It doesn't explain it very much though.

Say you had a house and then met someone and got married. You are married for 10 years and, in that time, both parties pay money into the house for upkeep etc.


1. Does the wife lose out on the house simply because it was already in their husband's possession before they met ??

2. Will the wife get half of the extra value of the house from point of investing into the home and divorce ??



A whole raft of other examples could be argued....




p.s. - I used the example of man having the house and wife marrying "into it" simply to keep the points easier to understand as opposed to full of "husband/wife" statements throughout... It could be the other way around i.e. wife owns house first.
 
About time I think. Way too many money grabbing women out there.

Yes, you get married because you're in love, etc. but I think if you go into it without protecting your assets then you're an idiot.
 
Just watching the news and John Cleese is on there, telling how his ex wife got $16 million of his money through divorce and he has to pay her $1 million a year until he's 76. Women are annoying!
 
I always found it odd that a woman can go into a marriage with nothing and come out with pretty much everything. Of course their is "sacrificing" her career but surely that is her own choice. Obviously if her husband forced her to give up work I would be understanding. Having kids should mean you pay child support, nothing more, nothing less. If it just so happened the house was mine prior to the marriage and meant I could provide a better living environment for them so be it.
 
We just need to have agreements before weddings as to how everything is split.

I don't understand why someone should get half of everything their partner earned whilst married. If you marry a rich successful businessman and he keeps earning 400k a year, what part of that success were you responsible for, would you have been earning the same were you not with him.

There should be a standard agreement with marriage that stipulates how couples will split assets and money upon divorce.
 
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