Recent research suggests that poverty rates amongst divorced pensioners are rising, with women coming off worse than men, mainly due to pensions being overlooked during the divorce settlement. According to the Office for National Statistics, in 2024 there were 1.5 million divorced people aged 65 or older in England and Wales, around three times the […]

Evidence from a team of forensic accountants has increased Alice Evans’ financial support payments in her bitter legal battle with her ex-husband, Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd. Despite finding that Evans had subjected Gruffudd and his new wife Bianca to years of harassment and domestic abuse, a California judge has now largely backed her on financial […]

In an ongoing divorce case that’s been billed as New Jersey’s most expensive contested marriage breakdown, the wife, Laura Overdeck, is fighting to ensure she gets the business shares to which she believes she is entitled, as well as a fair financial settlement. Laura and hedge fund billionaire John Overdeck married in 2002 without signing a prenuptial agreement. Now they are embroiled […]