Source: BBC News
A divorcee granted a record £48m when she split from her husband has been tied up and robbed of jewellery at her home by a balaclava-clad gunman.
Beverley Charman, 53, ex-wife of the insurance magnate John Charman, was threatened at gunpoint when she was alone at her gated mansion in Kent.
The ordeal came at the end of a week in which Mrs Charman faced her former husband at the Court of Appeal, where he is challenging the divorce settlement. Police are speculating that her high-profile divorce may have made her a target for thieves.
Source: Newsvine Separating two lives that have become intertwined can be complicated - and it’s not like you can just split everything down the middle. Or can you?
That was the answer for a 43-year-old German man, who split the family house in two using a chainsaw.
He then used a forklift to take “his” half back to his brother’s house, where he’s been staying since the split.
According to police, the summer house was 26 feet long and 18 feet wide when it was still in tact. “The man said he was just taking his due,” said a police spokesman. “But I don’t think his wife was too pleased.” I wonder how you protect against that in a pre-nup.
Today the Court of Appeal begins hearing John Charman’s challenge to the order that he should pay £48 million to his former wife. This is the first opportunity the Court of Appeal has had to make sense of the conflicting way in which family law cases are now being decided by the courts and to explain how future “big money” divorce cases should be decided.
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Separating two lives that have become intertwined can be complicated - and it’s not like you can just split everything down the middle. Or can you?
