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Posted on 05/18/2006 11:46:56 PM PDT by MadIvan
A lesbian couple who could become the first to divorce after "marrying" just three months ago were warned by lawyers yesterday that they may have a long wait.
Liz King, 40, and Daphne Ligthard, 36, registered their civil partnership in Ashford, Kent, on Feb 11 before sharing a honeymoon in Amsterdam.
But the relationship soured after Miss Ligthard accused Miss King of seeing another woman who had been a guest at their "wedding". The couple are now splitting up and face the prospect of dividing their joint assets.
Miss Ligthard said that the break-up came after Miss King said she no longer loved her.
"Liz told me she didn't love me any more, that she hadn't done so for years. I was absolutely flabbergasted," she said.
"I asked her why she had gone through the wedding and she said it was to make me happy. But it was all her idea.
"She even asked if I would change my name by deed poll because she liked the sound of it. We seemed more in love than ever."
She said she noticed something was wrong after Miss King, an amateur triathlete who works in insurance, began spending a lot of time away from home and kept bringing another woman back to the house.
"Liz is into athletics and is a triathlete. She began spending a lot of time training with another girl at her athletics club," Miss Ligthard, who works for Eurostar, told The Sun newspaper.
"They were together every day and this girl began coming round to the house when I was at work."
Miss King said: "I have nothing to say except I feel sorry for Daphne at this time."
Lawyers said that, under the Civil Partnerships Act that came into force in December, the couple could not terminate their partnership until it had been in existence for at least a year.
Moreover, in contrast to marriage, adultery was not recognised as grounds for ending a civil partnership, though unreasonable behaviour could be cited.
Mark Harper, a divorce specialist with the London law firm Withers, said that the dissolution of a partnership was almost exactly the same as any other divorce.
"The court would look at the assets that existed at the start of the relationship," he said. "The presumption would be that assets built up during the course of a relationship would be equally divided even if one partner earned much more than the other."
I had a college friend who I think may have set a record. She was on her honeymoon at the beach and ran into one of her bridesmaids.
She thought it was a coincidence.
Turned out her husband of 2 days had been seeing her bridesmaid before they got married.
They were drunk in the hotel bar that night and her husband confessed and left her there and went and spent the rest of the week with her bridesmaid.
She went home, got her things and went home to her parents. The divorce went through a year later.
"I asked her why she had gone through the wedding and she said it was to make me happy"
What a great reason to get married!!!!
Just shows that lesbians are just as stupid as non lesbians.
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So...who gets custody of the rug? |
Not quite but it sounds a bit like "The Heartbreak Kid" (Grodin, Shepard and Eddy Albert).
lol...
So "She got the gold mine, I got the shaft" takes on a new meaning as well.
It'd take a pretty sick individual, male or female, to be attracted to a female tri-athlete, my appologies to any female tri-athletes reading this.
I guess this just proves the old adage, "The carpet is always greener on the other side."
Unfortunately, this is just the sort of scenario that will draw HUGE lobbying in favor of legitimizing. Can you just see the lawyers drooling over the boom in the divorce industry? We can say what we want, but this movement has powerful allies and we can't underestimate their ability to have gay marriage "rammed through" as law.
Sounds like Miss Ligthard "has had the rug pulled out from under her".
But who gets the 9v batteries?
Who are they kidding. They wanted this to get to court. Recognizing the divorce, recognizes the marriage. They are just toooooo clever.
Marriage is only between a man and a woman for the purpose of bearing children. Anything else is a mock marriage. According to vermin this is not so; they open the door for "marriage" between a woman and her son, a man and his dog, a woman and her men, and so on, by that illogical rationale.
So now we have a mock divorce?
They just lost their "taste" for each other.
A good strawberry douche could have saved this marriage.
"Making my me hot.
I should proofread more often, I guess."
Or type with both hands. ;-p
Adultery doesn't count as "Unreasonable behavior"? Would something like excessive channel surfing constitute "unreasonable behavior"? How about mixing plaids and stripes?
I'm not sure carpet is the best metaphor here! :)
It reminded me to vacuum my carpets today.
Yes. Divorce for gays is laughingly unreal.
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