FIDO The Problem

  Divorce Law discourages marriage
Successful, hard-working people are being actively discouraged from entering into long term stable relationships.

  It discourages reconciliation
Lawyers have an enormous financial incentive to stop a couple saving their marriage.

  It makes the housing shortage much worse
If you have spent years paying off your mortgage you dare not get married or cohabit in case you lose your house. This situation is likely to get worse as the Law Commission plan to make this terrible situation even worse for cohabiting couples

  It destroys small firms
The reality of most high value divorces is that the wealth of one of the parties has been built up through the creation and ownership of a company which employs people in order to supply products and services to the public or other companies. The need for the owner of such a company to suddenly pay out a large amount of cash to an ex-spouse can often mean that the company concerned must be sold, or alternatively that steps must be taken which mean that its long term future is endangered. In the worst case companies may cease trading and people lose their jobs because of the demands of a party who has played no part in the creation of that wealth.

  It removes the Incentive to work hard and become successful
Why bother to work hard and build up a business if the courts can decide that somebody else is entitled to half of it?

  It is insulting to people who work hard for a living
The average employee in the UK would be hard-pushed to earn a total of £1M in a lifetime of hard work. From this they suffer deduction of taxes of various kinds. How do you think such people feel on seeing some undeserving person collect millions in a divorce?

  It is a retrospective change in a contract
When you got married you entered into a legal contract, the terms of which have been arbitrarily changed by the courts. How would you feel if the courts suddenly decided it would be "fairer" if your employees owned half your company? Or that your building society owned half your house? (OK, so it probably feels that way).

  It is contrary to your human rights
There are a number of grounds for believing that UK Divorce Law contravenes Human Rights legislation and we believe that an appeal to the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg would be successful

  It brings the law into contempt
If you get a leg blown off by a terrorist attack you will be lucky to collect a few thousand pounds. If you serve 20 years in prison for a murder that you did not commit, the maximum compensation that you will get is now limited to £500,000. Yet somebody who has made no financial contribution to a marriage or the creation of wealth can collect millions. What sort of legal system is that? ( Answer: The UK Legal System)

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