Husband left with just £300k of wife’s £61m fortune in divorce…after demanding £1,000s for meal plans as he ‘can’t cook’

A HUSBAND has been left feeling short-changed after getting £300,000 in a divorce settlement – despite his wife’s £61million fortune. Financial trader Simon Entwistle demanded multi-millionaire heiress Jenny Helliwell hand him five-figure payouts for yearly flights, as well as huge sums to help with his “meal plans” in the court battle.   The pair, both …

Life After Divorce for a Woman Can be Wonderful

Life after divorce for a woman might seem really scary. The lifestyle changes of divorce can feel brutal. Financial adjustments, living alone, dating… some of these can actually feel like a nightmare. But despite that change is really scary, there is a lot of good that comes with change. Most people don’t see it that …

Using Arbitration To Resolve Trust Disputes

For settlors who want to ensure that “internal” trust litigation – that is to say litigation involving settlors, trustees, beneficiaries or others with an interest in the trust property as opposed to third parties – can be resolved effectively and in confidence, arbitration is a potentially attractive option. Proponents of trust arbitration highlight various advantages, including: Confidentiality In …

Divorce Lawyer Says There’s Nothing Wrong With Being A Gold Digger

While women who marry into money are often shamed and stigmatized, one divorce lawyer has explained why there’s nothing wrong with being a “gold digger.” Marriage is a contract, and successful contracts require strategy, said Lena Nguyen, a divorce lawyer practicing in New York, California, and Texas. Nguyen took to social media to explain why …

How Commercial Litigation Solicitors Handle Breach of Contract Cases

The total claims year 2024 has dropped 10% compared to last year. Now the total number of claims has reached 3,380. There was a significant drop in the commercial lawsuits filed in London’s Commercial Courts. This marks six years in a row with decreased claims being filed. This shift emphasises the changing pattern of commercial …

Women’s football boss wins divorce fight with Bitcoin millionaire husband as judge rules she is allowed to keep their £7million Primrose Hill home

A former women’s football club owner has won a divorce court fight with her Bitcoin millionaire ex-husband over their £7million family home. Diane Culligan, 63, and financier ex Anthony, 62, lived a lavish lifestyle funded by his Bitcoin fortune after he turned a £10,000 crypto purse into £20million. They shared a £7m nine-bed home with …

Thousands of documents disclosed in ‘unprecedented’ error in lottery competition litigation

Thousands of documents released in an ‘extraordinary’ inadvertent disclosure should be allowed to be used in a claim over the National Lottery competition, a court has heard. In an application hearing, Mrs Justice Jefford heard that international firm Hogan Lovells LLP had incorrectly disclosed 4,321 documents containing privileged material to the claimants, the New Lottery …

Civil justice: A holistic approach to dispute resolution

At London International Disputes Week (LIDW) last June, the lady chief justice called ‘for the three main forms of dispute resolution – mediation, arbitration and litigation – to come together and consider how they can best complement each other and learn from each other’. She returned to this theme in her recent President’s Circle Lecture …