Read an interesting book review on Wall street journal while throning on a busy bathroom's toilet seat in a lawyer's office. The title is: sympathy for the serial divorcee-heartbroken, not heartless. Can someone do me a favor and find out the original article?
Then I did a google search using the key words: serial divorcee, then I found the following news and statistics:
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Serial divorcees are having a dramatic effect on the soaring rate of marriage break-ups, it was revealed yesterday.
One in five husbands and wives who split last year were on at least their second marriage - with the number of second or third-time divorcees almost doubling in just ten years.
But the figures from the Office for National Statistics also show that couples marrying for the first time are trying harder to stay together.
A picture emerges of two groups of married couples - one set have gone through several marriage and the others in steady relationships.
Robert Whelan of pressure group Family and Youth Concern said: "It is encouraging that many people are getting the message that you are much better off staying in a marriage, even if it isn't perfect, than getting divorced.
"But people on their second or third marriages are more likely to break up. They have a history of giving up on relationships."
"This is not a moral question - we simply have to persuade people that their lives have better outcomes if they stay together."
Last year saw a big increase in divorce, with nearly 148,000 couples parting through the courts, the highest number since the mid-1990s and 2.7 per cent up on the previous year. The rise pushed divorce rates up to the highest levels since the mid-1990s, at 13.3 individuals divorced for every 1,000 of the married population.
The numbers of divorces went up even though the overall number of married couples has declined. The ease of divorce means that couples who want to split can do so rapidly.
In four out of ten divorces last year, the couple were legally parted within six months of applying. Many were granted on the basis that the couple had first been separated for two years. Only seven out of 100 divorces now take more than two years to complete.
By contrast, there is strong evidence that many couples marrying for the first time are resisting the rush to divorce.
Last year seven out of ten couples who divorced had both been on their first marriage. Twenty years ago, eight out of ten divorces involved a couple on their first marriage. The time that an average marriage lasts before ending in divorce has also risen.
Last year a typical divorce came after 11.1 years of marriage - up from 10.9 years in 2001 and from 9.8 years in 1991. Again the figures point to couples working hard to keep their marriages together.
Family campaigners said the findings suggested that society is polarising between those who understand the importance of couples staying together and those prepared to see relationships repeatedly break up.
Officials are looking at using surveys or occasional regional 'rolling censuses' to replace the national count.
- posted on 06/02/2009
A career divorcee!
insulted: Susan Sangster was called a 'career divorcee' by her soon-to-be fourth ex-husband
After amassing ¡ê18million and going through three divorces, you might think Susan Sangster would prefer a quiet life.
But the former model is now pursuing her fourth husband in the divorce courts for a slice of his ¡ê45million fortune.
When Mrs Sangster, 50, married property developer Stuart Crossley, they signed prenuptial agreements, saying they would not make financial claims against each other if their marriage failed.
In less than two years it did - but she headed for the divorce courts.
Mrs Sangster, who uses the name of her third husband, Robert Sangster, claims that Mr Crossley - who describes her as "a serial divorc¨¦e" - failed to tell her about "tens of millions" more sitting in offshore accounts. She believes they could contain up to ¡ê60million.
However, at a High Court hearing in October, Mr Crossley's lawyers won the right to shorten normal procedures and allow the case to be heard in a day, rather than in multiple hearings.
The ruling means that at the next hearing in February, Mrs Sangster will find it difficult to convince judges in a day that she should be awarded a divorce payout.
The judge granted the permission because the couple were married for only 14 months, there were no children, both had independent wealth, and had signed a prenuptial agreement forbidding court action over finances on divorce.
Mrs Sangster appealed. But yesterday three Court of Appeal judges dismissed her appeal, paving the way for legal examination into the validity of pre-nuptial agreements.
Backing the fast-track procedure, Lord Justice Matthew Thorpe, one of the country's most senior divorce judges, described the case as "quite exceptional".
"If ever there is to be a paradigm case in which the courts will look to the pre-nuptial agreement as not simply one of the peripheral factors of the case, but a factor of magnetic importance, it seems to me that this is such a case."
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The career divorcee: husband no.1 Kevin Nicholson, left, and no.2 Peter Lilley
The former model's third and fourth husbands: Robert Sangster, left, and Stuart Crossley
After the hearing, Mr Crossley, 62, said the decision was fair. "I am upset that our marriage failed," he added. "Sadly, my wife is a career divorc¨¦e."
The couple wed in Barbados two years ago. They met on a blind date in June 2005 and were married seven months later. But they quickly found themselves to be incompatible and parted this year.
Mrs Sangster, who owns a four- bedroom flat worth about ¡ê6.5million in Belgravia, London, married Kevin Nicholson, whose family founded the Kwik Save supermarket chain, in her teens.
They divorced and she later married Peter Lilley, adopted son of Lilley and Skinner shoes chief Thomas Lilley. She had a daughter, Melissa, 26, with her husband.
Then came a romance with Robert Sangster, the racehorse owner and heir to Vernon Pools. She asked for a quick divorce from Mr Lilley in 1984, and married Mr Sangster the next year. They had two sons.
That marriage also ended in divorce and a ¡ê15million settlement for Mrs Sangster. But they remained close until his death from cancer in 2004.
The divorce hearing next year will evaluate the pre-nuptial agreement and whether it means her claims against her husband should be thrown out.
Mr Crossley's lawyers said the final decision should provide clarification on the degree to which pre-nuptial agreements are binding in the courts.
Lord Justice Thorpe said Mr Crossley was "locked in" a battle over the divorce settlement. Before the couple married, they employed "highly experienced lawyers" to write up a pre-nuptial agreement which allowed them to walk away with what they had taken into the marriage.
"This seems to me to be an entirely appropriate step for the parties to take."
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What a total waste of court time. The greed of many people, particularly divorcing women, truly astounds me. Women like this make me ashamed to be female.
Quote from divorce lawyer to a friend of ours: "You're going to be taken to the cleaners, it's just a matter of damage limitation".
The karma coming back at her and many like her, is going to be glorious to see.
- Bea, Horsham, England, 20/12/2007 09:13
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If one party has lied about the amount of wealth they have, then surely that invalidates the pre-nup?
- Jane, England, 20/12/2007 09:07
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I never cease to be amazed by the greed of some people! I'm sure the judge would award the missing money that Ms 'Sangster' thinks she's owed if she pledged to donate it to the starving children of this world.
- Anon, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 20/12/2007 09:05
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Super rich women who marry for two minutes and then try and claim more and more of the assets of their ex-husband even though they signed a pre-nup are a disgrace. They set back the case of women who marry for years, give up their careers to care for the children and then see their marriages break down. It is hard to argue the case for equality under these circumstances when there are so many greedy, money grabbing women out there.
- Nicola, France, 20/12/2007 08:50
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Let's face it; men are no match for scheming women like this one, and the British courts are so stacked against the man that logic would tell men never to marry. But logic has little to do with matters of the heart!
- John, Falmouth, UK, 20/12/2007 08:27
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It seems the womans only ambition in life is to fleece as many men as possible. I hope the greedy woman gets nothing from this one.
- Stan Still, UK, 20/12/2007 08:18
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- Re: A serial divorcee is kind of like a serial killer :)posted on 06/02/2009
Idina Sackville, the aristocratic English serial divorcee. Out of africa is based on her story.
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