Archive for the ‘Divorce’ Category

The former princess of pop, Britney ‘no knickers’ Spears, spent a staggering $417,000 on solicitor’s fees for her divorce from attention seeking, talentless hanger on Kevin Federline. Britney’s divorce from Kevin was never out of the press, with Britney constantly being photographed in a drunken state, abusing photographers and even appearing with other celebrity revellers in a knickerless drunken state.

Much of the money spent by Spears was on the drawn out custody battle she and her ex-husband had over their children, with Federline claiming she was an unfit mother.

With her divorce and other aspects of her private life becoming public, Spears and her family have employed as many as 17 lawyers, including divorce lawyers, during the last year.

Clive Bellmore

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Getting divorced can be a very costly exercise, as anyone who’s been divorced will tell, but according to divorce lawyers it’s becoming very easy to fund your divorce with a bank loan. According to some of the country’s leading divorce lawyers, banks are more than willing to dole out cash to those people who are looking to get divorced, when they wouldn’t be inclined to loan the money to people wanting it for other means, for example a mortgage or car loan.

Anne Kay , from the divorce solicitors Boodle Hatfield, stated:

Women who are married to wealthy partners often find themselves temporarily without funds when divorcing their partner. It is ironic that in the current economic climate, lending by private banks to fund divorce appears to be on the increase.

One of the banks prepared to offer funding for your divorce is HSBC. It is believed that banks are more than happy to offer loans to those in the middle of divorce proceedings because they believe they’ll be asked to offer financial advice after the divorce is finalised.

Clive Bellmore

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You don’t normally associate a stag party with a divorce, in fact generally it’s the furthest thing away from a divorce, because a stag party usually signifies the start of married life, or at least the precursor for it. Yet, incredibly, many stag parties, instead of signifying a marriage, lead to an inevitable divorce.

The reasons for this are simple; when guys go on stag parties, the sort of things that can occur on them can make their wives very jealous, and while there’s little difference between the events of a stag party to the events of a hen night, women never quite play by the same rules.

For example, when women get together for a hen night there’s almost always strippers involved, and usually some kind of contact between the women and the strippers. When men have a stag night, again it’s common for strippers to be involved, but unlike a hen party there is never any contact between the men and the stripper (at least from the man’s side of things).

Nevertheless, men attending stag parties and seeing strippers is something that their wives often dislike, and many husbands have found themselves at the foul end of their wife’s temper.

Clive Bellmore

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All of this talk about high profile celebrity divorces and people paying millions in divorce settlements may be entertaining for viewers, and harrowing for those involved, they never quite reach the level of the running joke of Ross Geller in Friends.

Ross was married three times during the ten year run of Friends. His first wife, Carol, became a lesbian. His second wife, Emily, divorced him because he said Rachel’s name at the altar (easy mistake) and his third wife, Rachel, divorced him because they were married while drunk in Vegas.

This prompted Phoebe to label Ross ‘Divorce-o’ after he proclaimed that he loved marriage, to which Ross retorted:

If you have to call me a name, I prefer, “Ross, The Divorcer.” It’s just cooler.

I think other celebs should take on names such as this!

Clive Bellmore

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Former Welsh and Arsenal football star John Hartson claims that his personal fortune has been whittled away due to gambling and his bitter divorce. Despite earning thousands playing for some of the richest clubs in the Premiership, including Arsenal and West Ham, and also being a pundit on TV, the star says he doesn’t have as much money as some people believe.

Hartson stated:

I would like to have more money.

Yes I do have a nice house and I drive a nice car but I don’t have millions and millions of pounds in the bank.

In his divorce settlement in 2008 the former Welsh international had to pay his ex-wife £1.5 million up front, and 50% of any future earnings.

Hartson says he lost a lot of money during his career.

I did have a lot of money when I was younger… and I did enjoy gambling and even things like bingo.

I don’t gamble thousands of pounds now like I used to. You can gamble everything and lose everything so it was a very dark time for me.

Clive Bellmore

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It’s a fact that rape is rape, even when it’s your own wife. A man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, found that out this week as he was found guilty in a court in Londonderry of raping his wife. The couple are going through divorce, and his wife alleged that he raped her and committed a series of domestic assaults on her in a two year spell between 2006 and 2008.

The twenty-eight-year-old man has been ordered to surrender his passport and has been released on bail. He will be sentenced just before Easter.

The couple were getting divorced at the time, but it seems the man didn’t like the idea of not sleeping with his wife, even though they were in the middle of a divorce.

Sadly for him, that’s considered rape.

Clive Bellmore

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If you’ve ever asked yourself ‘what is wrong with Americans?’ the answer is perfectly summed up with the news that a man who has been accused of murdering his young wife has been released on bail, for just $500.

The man, 28 year-old Khaleefa Lambert, was released from the army as he served in Afghanistan in order to come home and deal with his divorce. His 18 year-old wife, Ashley Cecelia Barnes-Lambert, had filed for divorce amid claims of abuse from her husband.

Ashley posted the following message on her MySpace page on Saturday:

You never know how strong you are until being strong is (the) only choice you have.

Shortly after posting the message, she was found stabbed to death in her husband’s car. Her husband was charged with 1st degree murder, but for some reason was released on $500 bail.

The murdered girl’s mother, Michelle Bosarge, said:

When she got here, she knew he would hurt her if he got his hands on her. She just didn’t want to be married to him anymore. She had dreams, and he was bashing them, and he was jealous.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he now either turns up dead, or someone else is murdered.

Clive Bellmore

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With the current financial climate the way it is, postponing your divorce until you can afford it seems like a good idea. Many couples are having to put off their divorce and stay together because they simply can’t afford to split up, with the housing market being so depressed.

However new research shows that by staying together, couples who want to divorce are actually increasing their stress levels rather than living amicably.

Divorce financial expert Karen Stewart, she says that by staying together when a relationship is over couples are putting themselves through high levels of stress and anger.

As people stay in relationships that in their own minds have ended. I find that stress and anger escalate. It’s better to nip it in the bud and be prudent.

Think about whether your health will suffer before you decide to stay with your partner instead of divorcing them.

Clive Bellmore

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Actress Reese Witherspoon has spoken out over her divorce from fellow actor Ryan Philippe and described the divorce as being:

Very humiliating and very isolating.

The couple had been married for seven years, and have two children together. They divorced in 2006, and have both met other people since. Reese is now with ‘Broke Back Mountain’ star Jake Gyllenhaal.

Reese revealed her distress about her divorce in next month’s issue of Elle.

When people get in your face and say, ‘This will pass,’ you think: Are they crazy?

I’m never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing’s ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I’m like, ‘Nothing’s ever gonna make sense again.’

[But]If it’s not painful, maybe it wasn’t the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions.

Clive Bellmore

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Far be it for the government to help families stay together, instead they’ve done the exact opposite. They’ve been rewarding mothers for divorcing their husbands, according to research from Professor Marco Francesconi. He claims that the money the government have dished out in Tax Credits to single mothers makes them financially better off than when they were married, resulting in an increase in the divorce rate among the poorer classes in the UK.

Add to this the fact that the CSA reward parents with care for not allowing access to their children for the non resident parent, and you’re left with a society that tells the mother: divorce your husband and forbid him to see your kids, and you’ll get more money.

Prof Francesconi claims that Gordon Brown’s flagship policy, the Tax Credits scheme, has had the unintentional knock on effect of causes more families to break up.

Well done Gordon!

Clive Bellmore

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