Disproportionate?
No, not another article about Israel, but about this divorce settlement:
Insurance magnate John Charman has been ordered to pay his former wife a total of £48 million in what is believed to be the biggest divorce award in legal history, it emerged today...
In percentage terms, the judge held this to be just under 37% of the assets which he found amounted to just over £131 million, including trust assets...
..."I made a fair and open offer to my wife of £20 million, which would be impossible for any reasonable person to spend in their lifetime."
Surely, if this chap owns £131million, than the thing we ought to be asking is why his wife didn't receive more!
If £20 million is more than enough for a reasonable person to spend in their lifetime, then surely he's got enough money with the £83million he has left?
Part of his defence was that he wanted the money for his family. But he already has put £25 million in a fund EACH for his two sons.
If I had my way, I'd take another £40 million from him and put it into our schools. Or hospitals.....(OK, I'll end the militant lefty rant here).
I could understand the fuss if a bloke only owned ten grand and his wife was given three, but with £83 million left?!? Tish and pish, I say, not for the first time.
-posted by Roy
