#divorce uk

[raincitygirl76]

I’m genuinely curious, what IS the procedure for divorcing someone who’s gone on the lam? Is Aaron stuck legally married to John until he dies or gets caught by the police? It’s impossible to serve someone with divorce papers if they’re a fugitive from justice, surely.

At some point, if John never surfaces again, could Aaron divorce him in absentia for abandonment and/or trying to murder him? Or have him declared legally dead? Here in Canada, I think you can have someone declared dead after 7 years. No idea how long someone would’ve had to be absent in order to be eligible for a unilateral divorce, though. And I doubt Aaron wants to be tied to John for the next 7 years.

How would their assets be divided? John must have inherited that creepy cottage in the woods (with ensuite bunker for handy kidnapping and torture purposes) from his late mother. Does Aaron own or rent the flat at the Mill? I can’t remember at the moment, since The Mill has a rather complicated ownership history.

Of course, I fully expect that John won’t simply disappear forever into the mists of Rotterdam. He will of course return to Emmerdale within a few months seeking vengeance. Either someone from the village will kill him or he’ll be shot by an armed response team. I suspect someone from the village. It’s more dramatic than some anonymous police sniper we’ll never see again.

And John’s death will either be genuinely in self defence, or whoever does it will claim self defence and the police will probably believe them. Since he is a dangerous fugitive and all. But Aaron doesn’t realize they live in a soap. So surely he must be wondering how to stop being married to John.

[thedivorcecircle]

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[mkeen61267]

Big divorce bill for cavalier business man

A “CAVALIER” multi-millionaire who left his wife mired in debt when they split over his affair with another woman has been hit with a £4m divorce invoice from his divorce lawyers. When the Northumberland couple – whose identity has not been released by the courts – broke up over the husband’s adultery after 25 years of marriage, his solicitor wife was left in what a top family judge described as “dire” financial straits. Her legal practice, which once employed 60 people and generated profits of more than £1m-a-year, collapsed and her debts forced her into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement. The end of the marriage saw the wife living on, almost penniless, in the couple’s five-bedroom former matrimonial home, worth at least £760,000, in a Northumberland village. Mrs Justice Macur said that, by contrast to his hard-up ex, the husband’s 91.75% shareholding in a successful refreshments company built up during the marriage – described as a “cash cow” in court – gave him an income of £24,000-a-month and few outstanding debts. The total notional value of the couple’s assets, after liabilities, came to about £7,675,000. Ordering the businessman, in his early sixties, to hand over his interest in the matrimonial home – along with a £4m lump sum – to his ex-wife, the judge described the evidence he gave the court as “cavalier, callous and aggressive”. Under cross-examination in the witness box, the husband “was often shown to be mistaken, at best, disingenuous at worst” and the judge added: “There is much to criticise the husband for in his obstinate refusal to recognise the wife’s contributions”. As well as running the family home and caring for the ex-couple’s now adult children, the judge said the wife, in her late fifties, had been “far more than a sleeping partner” in her husband’s business ventures. She made a vital contribution to the success of the “burgeoning” refreshments business which was said to have achieved post-tax annual profits of £1.1m even in the recession, the judge added. The husband was ordered to transfer to his ex-wife his interest in the former matrimonial home and an immediate lump sum of £1.25m to cover her legal bills and other debts. He will also have to pay a further £2.75m on the sale of his shares in the company, or by December 2015 at the latest. Under cross-examination, the husband “was often shown to be mistaken, at best, disingenuous at worst”