Forget marriage, now you can't even just live with them...

[mrpurple]

Rovinghawk said:

Breadvan72 said:

My ex wife is in Venice this week.

You might be in luck- I hear it's flooded ATM.

[soprano]

Breadvan72 said:

As far as I am aware (and it's not my field, so I'm not sure of this), costs sanctions are rare in family cases, and thus there is little disincentive to the adoption of unreasonable stances. In other types of litigation, unreasonable conduct will often result in the award of costs or other sanctions.

Spot on, although there are provisions for unreasonable behaviour conduct in matrimonial finance, that tends to relate to litigation conduct such as non disclosure rather than the adoption of an unreasonable stance. Costs orders do tend to be rare.

Those rules don't apply to interim hearings within matrimonial proceedings such as maintenance pending suit or injunctions within ancil' proceedings. Likewise with appeals. Costs are recoverable in those circumstances.

There have been a couple of interesting cases on costs this last year or so.

[TVR1]

Breadvan72 said:

When I got divorced I avoided the courts and agreed the financial split with my ex wife, and would always recommend this course over litigating.

The problem with arms dealers going to war.....

is no shortage of ammunition?

[AyBee]

turbobloke said:

Pat H said:

turbobloke said:

Excellent news on your amicable settlement.

And if all the kids went to live with you?

I've got one and the other is at university.

We just seem to muddle along happily on an ad-hoc basis.

I am under no illusions that it is a lot more difficult for most couples that separate.

Neither my ex nor I are particularly bothered about money, which really seems to help.

As long as there is enough to finance a couple of old cars, a motorbike, real ale and Chicken Madras, then all is well with the world.

That sounds like a good outcome

But when you compare it to the couple in the OP, he could have given her £50k and still come out £50k better off than he has done...