Divorce Support Forums: McCartney "settlement": $125,000,000!

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...Oh, and if your'e looking at whether or not her contribution to his life in this past 6 years might have cused a 5% increase in his net worth... you BET... if he had his net worth invested in what most people do... stocks, homes, etc... then his net worth probably doubled in this past 6 years, and it's QUITE likely that a meager 5% of that 100% increase might be attributable to her efforts in some way...
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What a load of absolute rubbish!

Don't you suppose that with all of the distress and distraction he endured, on her account, over the last few years that it is more likely that he created far less wealth than he would have without her? If he offered her 35 million pounds, then THAT IS THE FIGURE, nothing more, insofar as any truly "voluntary" offer is concerned. AND EVEN THAT WAS DONE UNDER DURESS, the obvious duress that a court may have "given" her even far more!

Your argument inevitably revisits the time-worn nonsense which maintains that a debt is influenced, if not controlled, by "how much the debtor has to begin with"-- part and parcel of Socialist if not Communist theory. ANY debt is properly determined ONLY BY THE PROVEABLE FACTS of the case. The suggestion that she may have somehow contributed something to his increase in wealth, during the marriage, is nothing but standard, self-serving, anachronistic anti-male speculation which we see in virtually all divorces--not only in the UK but, disgracefully, also in the U.S. .

If he had merely honestly wanted to demonstrate his continuing concern for the welfare of the mother of his child, don't you think that a TRULY AND TOTALLY VOLUNTARY settlement of something more like 5 million pounds, would have been more realistic? At a nominal after-tax and after-inflation adjusted return of only 2%, this would have represented a lifetime income of 200,000 dollars per annum. If she could not learn to live on this, as "reward" for living with this man for a few years and having his child, then there is truly something wrong with her (I'm not talking about her "handicap") and something EVEN MORE wrong with anyone who disagrees with this observation!

RE-read "Atlas Shrugged"!

Edited by jbar (10/12/07 02:39 AM)

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