A British divorce
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Judge overrides prenup as Bob the Builder tycoon's daughter divorces | Law | The Guardian.
Frankie Limata married into the wealthy Luckwell family, which is in the film business. The marriage did not "work out" as people casually say these days. Love flew out the window in the course of arguments over money. Understandable arguments, perhaps, as our Frankie ran up debts of £226,000.
He has now obtained a judgement from the High Court ordering his wife to sell her home to provide £1.2 million to pay off those debts and buy a new home. This despite entering into a pre-nuptial agreement to the contrary and having given repeated assurances (upon which she and her family had relied to their detriment) that he would never make any claim against their assets. The home is his wife's sole asset and was a gift to her from her wealthy father.
His name may end in a vowel, but our Frankie is no man of respect.
I deliberately link to The Guardian's account so that readers can duly note how rich (and therefore in left-world, evil) the family subjected to this legalised banditry is. I am hoping that even the hardest-hearted among you is feeling for the Luckwells and recognising how disgusting it is that a man with no reasonable expectations of wealth should have acquired a right to a lifestyle he enjoyed by marriage.
The pretext of course, as so often with leftist evil, is "the children". The judge thinks it would be wrong for them to move between their mother's expensive soon-to-be-ex home in Connaught Square (near the Blairs) and the kind of home their father's income could provide. Personally, I think that would be an educational benefit in their lives. Children grow up both happily and unhappily in poor homes and rich ones; money having nothing to do with good parenting. Certainly any inconvenience to them would be infinitesimal by comparison with the damage done by their father's shameful example of dishonesty.
With me so far? Now consider that this (with smaller numbers but in similar proportions) is what many British middle class divorces look like without attracting any press coverage at all.
The difference being, of course, that the sexes of the parties are reversed.
At least it was intellectually consistent when pre-nuptial agreements were void for "public policy" in favour of marriage. Now you are allowed to make an agreement, but a judge decides later which clauses you can rely upon. It's the very opposite of the Rule of Law, which was England's greatest gift to the world.
Absolutely sickening. I have seen a friend go through the family courts and was horrified. I admit I was pretty smug about English Law having practised it for thirty years and having seen good reliable work from commercial judges and arbitrators. The courts that serve the masses however - from what I have recently seen - are a disgrace. Nor is it due to laziness, sloppiness or error IMHO. It's ideological and deliberate.
Posted by: Tom | Tuesday, March 04, 2014 at 11:01 AM
Quite. What other contract can be broken to the advantage of the breaker?
Posted by: Sackerson | Sunday, March 02, 2014 at 10:48 AM