There are many things that might lead a guy to file for divorce, and being handcuffed by your wife certainly qualifies!

Robert Drawbaugh was rescued by police last month when his wife handcuffed herself to him when he wanted to leave her. When they found the man, and his handcuffed wife, he had bites on his arms and upper body.

His wife, Helen Sun, 37, had been married to Mr Drawbaugh for 7 years before it broke down.

According to Helen Sun the handcuffs were necessary because she couldn’t speak to her husband properly without them.

Clive Bellmore

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It may seem like a stupid thing to have an argument over, but when a marriage isn’t working out you’ll find you’re able to pretty much disagree about anything, and garden ponds certainly come under the category of ‘anything’.

The problem was that our house had a pond in the garden, one which was protected by a fence, albeit a small fence, but a fence nonetheless. As my wife at the time decided the pond was dangerous, she wanted to place netting over it to stop the children falling in. However, the netting she placed over the pond, against my advice and knowledge at the time, was some loose netting she’d picked up in Asda. It wasn’t suitable to keep a cat out of the pond or support the weight of a small bird, let alone protect a child from falling in.

Still she insisted that it was safer, until I pointed out how it gives way under the slightest weight, and once someone has fallen through it, all the netting does is to trap them in the water so that they can’t get out.

Now I’m not saying that having some form of mesh on your garden pond isn’t a good idea, but when you do decide to use it, make sure that it’s fit for the purpose. A visual example to your now ex-wife of what would happen should a child fall through the netting isn’t the best way to get your point across.

Clive Bellmore

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Children can have a huge impact on your divorce settlement in terms of how much you would have to pay out, or how much you would receive if you’re the mother.

Typically assets in a divorce are split 50/50 between the husband and the wife, including the matrimonial home, and also assets that you owned before you were married. This seems harsh, especially when you consider that presents you may have received when you were 17 can be claimed by your ex.

However, when there are children involved things get much worse as the parent with care can claim up to 65% of the assets because of the children. This figure is of course negotiable, but a court could well decide in favour of the parent to be caring for the children.

So, if you look like you might be heading for divorce, and you have children, consider the implications of how much it could cost.

Clive Bellmore

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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.

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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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