Divorce/property

AMO

gfm198 wrote: »

Well, after being married for only 6 months, whenever we had arguments she would end up threatening to divorce me and take all my money!!

The arguments revolved around me seeing my two young children from previos relationship. She did not want me to spend much time with them and I did.

Is this not ill intent???

So the only thing I thought I could do is transfers my properties to a family member then if divorce ever came up she would not have a leg to stand on and my future inheritance to my children would remain intact.

Surely there is a time that the courts would ignor the fact that I transferred the properties because I actually wanted to??

I can hang out the divorce longer to achieve this.

Is there anything else I could do i.e. put the properties in trust to my children or something.

It's only them that I care about and dont want to see there inheritance disappear.

Any sound advice would really be appreciated.

Okay, firstly you didn't mention that you had kids from a previous marriage/relationship. That changes things a bit but not the ill intent.

Secondly you can transfer your properties - that's not the problem. The problem is that even if you transfer them, when it comes to settle in your current relationships a count will be made of the value of your assets. If you transferred a property, the value of that property will still be counted especially if the only reason for doing so was because of the divorce and no court or person in the world would believe otherwise.

I can understand your position, but that is separate from your choice of actions.

Now as you had 3 kids, the courts will consider your financial commitments to your previous kids also.

Most likely they will determine:
- your previous house is a split between you and your ex partner.
- your current house is a split betwen you and your current partner.

The courts will decide based on the length of time of your relationship as to whether your partner has a right to stay and bring up the children in the house and/or how much of a share she has to the house.

Either way, you're probably in a position where you might be looking for another place to stay and have a 3 children commitment.

Before you feell bad and robbed and cheated, also think of what it's going to be like for your partner who would find it hard to go out to work as she has to look after the kid largely by herself now - unless you have some other arrangement.