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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Sorry, they broke up in 1984. Thus, their son would now be at least 30 years old!
So she wants another swing at the divorce pinata now that her ex husband is rich, instead of the smelly hippie he was when they were together? I would give some to his son- voluntarily. But to the ex? Not a damn farthing. all the fortune he earned was well after the divorce.
CC
So where did the other 3 come from? Why should he have to support the other "additions" she accumulated since they divorced?
In this case, I think he should help HIS kid out, but just because he improved his condition is no reason for people in his past to feel they have the right to his self-made situation. I think we used to call that COMMUNISM!
Welcome to the Animal Farm...
The article reads as if they only had one child together and they were divorced in 1984. It sounds very much like the other three children were not his.