£56m lotto winner must pay the ex who...
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DUMP HIM!
Un f
king believeable. Makes my blood boil!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3239427/...
Un f
king believeable. Makes my blood boil!http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3239427/...
Madness - however...
When my folks split up, my mother got a huge cash payoff, most of my Dad's considerable pension (40 years with M&S finished at a very senior level) and a huge monthly payment that was conditional that it was to look after her when she wasn't working or while she remained single.
She made a point of not working and while she's been with a rather successful lawyer for the last 15 years, she still asked my father last year if she could keep the payments coming if she married the guy. Dad rightly told her to do one, so she won't marry.
Mum's fella is a lovely guy and is really pissed off with her. Dad is a cool guy but has resigned himself to have been taken to the cleaners (a lesson he hasn't learnt apparently) and while I love my Mum to bits, she's been a bh about this.
Problem is, the courts seem to like taking the piss as well.
When my folks split up, my mother got a huge cash payoff, most of my Dad's considerable pension (40 years with M&S finished at a very senior level) and a huge monthly payment that was conditional that it was to look after her when she wasn't working or while she remained single.
She made a point of not working and while she's been with a rather successful lawyer for the last 15 years, she still asked my father last year if she could keep the payments coming if she married the guy. Dad rightly told her to do one, so she won't marry.
Mum's fella is a lovely guy and is really pissed off with her. Dad is a cool guy but has resigned himself to have been taken to the cleaners (a lesson he hasn't learnt apparently) and while I love my Mum to bits, she's been a b
h about this.Problem is, the courts seem to like taking the piss as well.
Mr Trophy said:
Eric Mc said:
Why?
She left him 10 years ago for another man, yet he has to give her £2 Million?Understand with regards to child maintenance, but come on? Really?
She still will get the £2k maintenance payments.
turbobloke said:
Eric Mc said:
Why?
Agreed, why? Why should the moneygrabbing parasite get an extrea penny?They have nothing to do with me.
Why should I get annoyed over a matter which doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever?
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 22 November 08:44
Eric Mc said:
turbobloke said:
Eric Mc said:
Why?
Agreed, why? Why should the moneygrabbing parasite get an extrea penny?They have nothing to do with me.
Why should I get annoyed over a matter which doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever?
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 22 November 08:44
Plus I hate stuff like this because it inspires other s
tbags to do the same thing.Asterix said:
Eric Mc said:
turbobloke said:
Eric Mc said:
Why?
Agreed, why? Why should the moneygrabbing parasite get an extrea penny?They have nothing to do with me.
Why should I get annoyed over a matter which doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever?
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 22 November 08:44
Plus I hate stuff like this because it inspires other s
tbags to do the same thing.
Eric Mc said:
turbobloke said:
Eric Mc said:
Why?
Agreed, why? Why should the moneygrabbing parasite get an extrea penny?They have nothing to do with me.
Why should I get annoyed over a matter which doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever?
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 22 November 08:44
Parrot of Doom said:
Eric Mc said:
turbobloke said:
Eric Mc said:
Why?
Agreed, why? Why should the moneygrabbing parasite get an extrea penny?They have nothing to do with me.
Why should I get annoyed over a matter which doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever?
If matters which don't affect you directly, don't affect you, why do you both beconme vexatious in other threads over other matters? Or, heaven forbid, are you both posturing? Surely not
Eric Mc said:
turbobloke said:
Eric Mc said:
Why?
Agreed, why? Why should the moneygrabbing parasite get an extrea penny?They have nothing to do with me.
Why should I get annoyed over a matter which doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever?
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 22 November 08:44
It upsets me because some part of me would like (hopes) to win the lottery and it annoys me that I could find myself in the same position. Plus that fact that what I perceive to be an injustice has occured at all.
There are issues with the way the CSA (or whatever they cuirrently call themselves these days) operate the calculation of their maintenance amounts.
In pre CSA days, maintenance was awarded for once and for all in a one off court decision. If the economic condition of the payer of the maintenance improved, his "old" family obtained no benefit from this improvement. Whatever about paying to ex-wives, the change in approach was aimed at ensuring that CURRENT children from ALL relationships did not lose out purely because the maintenance provider was no longer directly involved in the original relationship.
This change in philosophy, whilst beneficial in theory, has created problems as it does create a sense of uncertainty in the case of the maintenance provider because the amounts being paid under the original maintenace arrangements are liable to change over time.
However, why shouldn't this individual's original family not obtain some benefit from his good fortune?
In pre CSA days, maintenance was awarded for once and for all in a one off court decision. If the economic condition of the payer of the maintenance improved, his "old" family obtained no benefit from this improvement. Whatever about paying to ex-wives, the change in approach was aimed at ensuring that CURRENT children from ALL relationships did not lose out purely because the maintenance provider was no longer directly involved in the original relationship.
This change in philosophy, whilst beneficial in theory, has created problems as it does create a sense of uncertainty in the case of the maintenance provider because the amounts being paid under the original maintenace arrangements are liable to change over time.
However, why shouldn't this individual's original family not obtain some benefit from his good fortune?
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 22 November 09:25
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