Do Divorce Settlements Favour Women?

Divorce only became legal here in the Irish Republic with the passing of a public referendum back in 1995, and has been on the increase every year since. Before then the best a person could achieve in Irish law was what was called a "legal separation", which was divorce in all but name, with the obvious exception that you weren't free to remarry within the State. Of course, if you are a practicing Roman Catholic then divorce is still not acceptable, and a civil divorce is not sufficient to allow you to remarry within the Church. (A Catholic marries for life) OK; so enough of the history. How do the respective partners fair out when a ...  Read the complete review

When I was six my mum and dad were argueing, there was five of us children at the time and I was the eldest, then they started sleeping in seperate rooms then my mum was pregnant again I thought this might improve the situation but my mum my sister and me moved into the bigger bedroom. After my brother was born my mum suffered post natal depression which was so bad she disowned my little brother, my dad was out at work all the time and so I took on mummy duties for my brother (getting up in the night, feeding changing him, taking him out for walks) but the arguments were no better and a few years later and after enduring being neglected financially by my dad, having to ...  Read the complete review

On the face of it I can see why such a title for a category would get a lot of people nodding i agreement because of a few high profile cases which makethe headlines however I feel that the reality is very different in the large number of cases that go unreported. I have two friends who went through divorces and both needed the courts to sort out the financial aspects, in both cases from the date of seperation to the final court hearings they got no money from their husbands despite the fact that one of them was left to support three children and the other one child. In fact the one with only one child was forced out of the family home and it took court action ...  Read the complete review

So hands up who thought Heather Mills-McCartney would try and take Paul for everything he’s got? Ok, you can all put your hands down now. That was an easy one. I won’t ask you if you thought she was a money grabbing bitch either. It’s reported she has already got herself a gilded gold shovel with the winnings and has her beady an eye on Bono! I think we would all like to see Bono taken for a few quid. Now its poor old Paul who is going to be taken for an arm and a leg. Now they are even. Sorry I couldn’t resist it! To be honest few have any sympathy for Paul. He needed a svelte bit of totty on his arm to feel young and sell records and she needed a lot of ...  Read the complete review