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Baroness calls for reform of divorce law

Baroness Deech is to use a series of lectures to call for reform of divorce law.

She is calling for an end to the notion that women deserve half of their husband’s wealth on divorce and is quoted as saying “the notion that a wife should get half of the joint assets of a couple even after a short, childless marriage has crept up on us without any parliamentary legislation to this effect. Judges are ignoring the statutory direction to try and achieve a “clean break” between divorcing couples”.

Baroness Deech has stated her view that divorce laws are unfair to men and have not kept pace with changes in society The Baroness also believes that judicial discretion on what can be awarded should end and that only assets acquired after marriage would be divided, with no division at all in the case of marriages of three years or less.

The Baroness is also reported as stating the view that no maintenance should be paid unless the spouse cannot work or has young children to care for.

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