Divorce Costs: an arm and a leg?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:26 pm
A woman battling her amputee ex-husband for the lion's share of his £500,000 compensation has won the right to more than half his money in a landmark ruling. The Appeal Court declared that her needs and those of their children were more important than those of the disabled man. Lord Justice Thorpe ruled that the money Kevin Mansfield received in 1998 after losing a leg in a road smash - five years before he met his former wife Cathryn - ought to be 'available to all his family' and that the needs of his ex-wife and their four-year-old twins were 'primary' and outweighed his own.
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