Pleasing 4 Pets

The nations animals could become the next costly item on the agenda in the divorce courts, after a court in the UK awarded the wife of a wealthy banker a divorce settlement which included £50,000 per year for the maintenance of her horses.

Her city-worker husband who declared annual earning of £60,000 with additional bonuses claimed that the horses were unnecessary extravagance and that without them his ex-wife could purchase a property without extra land for less than £600,000.

But the court awarded the bankers ex-wife with a £1.5million overall divorce settlement, £900,000 of which was to purchase a property which housed sufficient grounds for her animals to graze.

Although the couple had no children, the court was advised that the horses had become child-substitutes throughout the course of the 11 year marriage

The case was heard by the most senior family judge in the UK, who said of the case:-

“During the marriage the horses played a major part in the wife’s life with the consent and encouragement of the husband. The animals took on this role all the more so after she lost a baby in 2001 and the husband gave her a third horse to celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2004, to add to her own two horses which she had bought herself for £20,000 out of a personal inheritance in order to justify her eventing”.

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