THE SUPREME COURT IN LONDON

This is the highest Court in the land and was previously the House of Lords.  It deals with the big landmark divorce cases such a White v White and Miller v MacFarlane. 

If you Google those cases, you will see that in the average family with a house and regular incomes the judge is not going to be interested in who worked harder or put more money or effort into the marriage.

He will just say 50/50.  In the larger money cases however, these factors come into play.

The judge aims to split 50/50, but often there is not enough money to go around to do so.  All sorts of solutions are found to get round that dilemma including Mesher Orders.  This means that one person (typically the wife) keeps the house until the children are grown up and then the husband’s (typically) share of perhaps a third is paid to him when they university, like a pension.

Often husbands complain that they were very generous to the wife during marriage and they should not be penalised for that but they are. Unfortunately for them level of generosity, is the benchmark that the judge uses when assessing how the wife’s future life should look when the divorce has gone through.

As always expert advice should be sought at an early stage preferably from a law firm offering fixed fees.

This is the highest Court in the land and was previously the House of Lords.  It deals with the big landmark divorce cases such a White v White and Miller v MacFarlane.

If you Google those cases, you will see that in the average family with a house and regular incomes the judge is not going to be interested in who worked harder or put more money or effort into the marriage.

He will just say 50/50.  In the larger money cases however, these factors come into play.

The judge aims to split 50/50, but often there is not enough money to go around to do so.  All sorts of solutions are found to get round that dilemma including Mesher Orders.  This means that one person (typically the wife) keeps the house until the children are grown up and then the husband’s (typically) share of perhaps a third is paid to him when they university, like a pension.

Often husbands complain that they were very generous to the wife during marriage and they should not be penalised for that but they are. Unfortunately for them level of generosity, is the benchmark that the judge uses when assessing how the wife’s future life should look when the divorce has gone through.

As always expert advice should be sought at an early stage preferably from a law firm offering fixed fees.