Rich ex-wives are sent packing by divorce judges

Senior judges are taking a tough line with former wives of millionaires who return to court seeking to reopen divorce settlements.

Judges have become concerned that the decisions of High Court, have led to London being the divorce capital of the world.

Judges have thrown out attempts by former wives to challenge the terms of their divorce awards. In the latest, the former wife of the Conservative Party grandee Sir Paul Judge failed to amend a £6.6 million divorce settlement that she received nearly ten years ago.

In another case, a wife who was awarded £7.5 million unsuccessfully tried to challenge the settlement after she claimed that the judge had wrongly calculated the division of the couple’s assets. One senior appeal judge said that neither “is ever going to experience any financial want or need”.

In another case involving a Russian couple, the same judge lamented the amount of judicial time devoted to “wasteful” litigation between super-rich couples who wanted to get divorced in London but had only a “slender connection” with the capital.

The Court of Appeal upheld a divorce that had been granted in Moscow to the Russian Oligarch Ilya Golubovich, in spite of his wife’s desire to be divorced in London.

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