Adulterers in the U.K. Could Pay the Price for Marriage Break-up
Married couples in the U.K. could be held accountable and face large fines in the divorce courts if they were found to “behave badly” towards their spouse. Experts fear that this could create a culture of blame in the courts, where there is already a greater use of private detectives.
Example: Alan and Melissa Miller were married less than three years, had no children and had a very comfortable lifestyle. The husband was ordered to pay his wife £5 million (what ever this amounts to, 5 million of anything is a lot!). The court ruled that Mrs Miller had “an expectation” of a high standard of living and the old man was partly to blame for the end of the relationship. “In simple terms, committing adultery – the biggest reason behind divorce – could cost its perpetrator dearly.”
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Pingback by Southern Appeal » “Adulterers in the U.K. Could Pay the Price for Marriage Break-up” — April 18, 2006 @ 6:21 PM
The only thing that surprises me about the data here is that unfaithfulness and desertion only accounted for 36% of the divorces.
Years ago, I worked in a law office which handled a lot of divorce cases. In 80%-90% of the cases, at least one spouse had committed adultery.
Comment by Donna Marie Lewis — April 18, 2006 @ 11:04 PM
The list is a result of subjective reasons for divorce, so it is possible that infidelity possibility occurred either after or during the time that either one or both spouses gave up on the marriage.
Comment by shelray — April 19, 2006 @ 7:15 AM