Archive for March, 2009

If you thought your ex-wife was a bit of a bitch, Marie Douglas-David will leave her cold. The Swedish wife of George David, former CEO of United Technologies Corp, wants $100 million in her divorce settlement, claiming that the paltry $38 million she has been offered isn’t enough to live on.

Quite right, who could struggle by on $38 million?

It’s hard to see what the young Swedish woman saw in the sixty-seven-year-old millionaire, maybe he was just full of life and wit?

According to reports, she is demanding that her soon to be ex-husband pays her $53,000 per week for living expenses. David has a fortune estimated to be around $329 million. Marie Douglas-David is claiming that her old man husband used sex as a means to control her… right. Could that not be the other way round love?

Clive Bellmore

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As a follow up to yesterday’s post about when to change your locks to keep your wife out of the house, it must be noted that it only works if your wife has moved out. You can’t do that if she’s still living in the house.

However, it is common for a woman to change the locks locking the husband out of the house, and any attempts to break in by the man can be construed as a breach of the peace, especially if the woman is still in the house. If the police feel that someone is at risk of physical harm they will arrest you for attempting to break in, as your forced entry would almost certainly give them that impression.

So yes you are allowed to break in to your own house if you still live there, but be warned that any violent gestures or abusive language will most likely lead to your being arrested, and an application for injunction brought out against you.

Clive Bellmore

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When you’re going through divorce and your wife has left the house, which sometimes happens, especially if she’s looking to get housed, you’ll have the problem of nothing being secure in your home. You could come home and find that your possessions have been taken, your food has gone and even money has been taken. Is there anything that you can do about it?

Divorce solicitors sometimes offer contradicting advice on the matter of changing the locks on your house to keep your wife out. Firstly, if your home is in joint names, your wife has a legal right to enter the property. Therefore if you do change the locks on your house she has the right to call a locksmith and have them changed again.

This tit-for-tat could go on, with you both changing the locks, until a judge makes a ruling, which will most likely be that no one can change the locks and no one can remove anything from the house without written permission from the other person.

So, if your wife is continually entering your house when she no longer lives there and stealing your things, change the locks. Be prepared for her to do the same though.

Clive Bellmore

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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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