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Likely outcome: divorce with no shared assets or children?

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  • 03-07-2017 9:01am
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    Merry Prankster
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I have a friend (a foreign national) who married an Irish girl in 2007 and moved over here. They split up in 2010 and are due to attend court next week for a divorce hearing. His wife initiated divorce proceedings and has decided that she wants to fight for maintenance, despite them having no children or shared assets (she had a mortgage on a house before he moved over which she has subsequently lost due to non-payment). He works full time in a minimum wage job, her work record over the past number of years has been patchy owing to bouts of depression. She has qualifications and a much greater earning power, and I think she is currently working, yet, at the advice of her free-legal-aid solicitor, is pursuing maintenance. Surely the judge can't award her maintenance in this case? If anyone has had any experience in a similar situation, I'd love to hear from you! Cheers.


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    Payton
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Payton


    There is a lot of patchy information in your post. Your friend will need to speak to a good family law solicitor.


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