So this good ole boy let his kids live in squalor while he did not?
The man in question only became wealthy in the last 15 or so years. I don’t believe he should have left his children in poverty, but it should be noted that the youngest of his children NOW would have to be at least 22 years old!
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Dale Vince and Kathleen Wyatt were both poor when they married in 1981. They had a son and lived an itinerant lifestyle together until 1984, when they broke up. They were formally divorced in 1992.
After their separation, Vince joined the traveller community and spent about a decade living from hand to mouth in a converted ambulance, attending New Age festivals and anti-nuclear arms protests.
In the early 1990s, he began experimenting with green energy. He started at the Glastonbury music festival where he fixed a windmill to the top of an old pylon, installed batteries at its foot, plugged in four large mobile telephones and offered festival-goers a wind-powered phone service.
From these modest beginnings, Vince, now 53, eventually built up Ecotricity, a green energy business worth an estimated 57 million pounds ($86 million).
Meanwhile, Wyatt, now 55, and her four children continued to live what the court described as “an unsettled lifestyle”, subsisting on state benefits and earnings from low-wage jobs.
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I don’t approve of his decisions, but her actions in trying to take money he earned after they were divorced and after the kids were (technically) adults are even worse. The courts should give her nothing. What he chooses to share with her or with his children is his own business.
This is not about alimony. This is about her having raised their four children with no help from him, and now he is wealthy and she is penniless. It’s about not having received any child support over the years of struggle.
Real men support their children (or in this case, child).
The woman can go to he11 as far as I am concerned, but the guy should have taken better care of his kid once he began to make a good living.
Seems the British courts are taking that pretty seriously...
Dang, it’s like marriage is until death do they part or something.
My suspicion the reason the court is ruling the way it is, is because she’s been living on state bennies for a long time. If he is forced to start paying for her, that should cut down on how much the state is paying her. Just a way to soak some rich guy and do a little “redistributing.”