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Team Tracey Wright: Why women deserve to be supported by their exes
By Rachel Royce
There is an unhealthy obsession in this country with making mothers of young children go out to work. It is happening in the benefits system and now, it seems, it is happening in the Court of Appeal.
Tracey Wright, the mother of two daughters, aged 16 and 10, has been told by Lord Justice Pitchford that it is “imperative” she find a job. Ruling on her ex-husband’s attempt to reduce maintenance payments, the judge added for good measure that, once a child was seven, any mother could reasonably be expected to seek work.
The Court of Appeal makes it all sound so easy for first wives. In some of the newspaper reports yesterday, a particularly nasty phrase was used about Tracey Wright – that she was looking for a “meal-ticket for life” from her ex-husband, a millionaire racehorse surgeon to whom she had been married for 11 years until their divorce in 2008. The original settlement of a mortgage-free £450,000 house and £75,000 in maintenance and school fees might seem generous but my sympathy is entirely with her. Starting out again in the workplace at 51, must seem like a daunting prospect for the former riding instructor who lives with her 10 year old daughter. And I have found over and over how few allowances are made for lone mothers with children.
Because she stuck to her guns, and went to court to challenge the initial ruling last year, Tracey Wright has now been forced to sell her house to pay her legal bills of around £100,000. That means her two children (her 16-year-old is at boarding school) will have been uprooted twice in their young lives – first from the £1.3m seven-bedroom matrimonial home in Suffolk to the smaller house in Newmarket that she bought after the divorce in 2008, and now to somewhere miles away near Tracey’s mother in York.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/divorce/11432703/Team-Tracey-Wright-Why-women-deserve-to-be-supported-by-their-exes.html
What say you Vital Villa?
The woman who wrote the article would make a pretty shitty feminist talk about painting women as helpless...
By Rachel Royce
There is an unhealthy obsession in this country with making mothers of young children go out to work. It is happening in the benefits system and now, it seems, it is happening in the Court of Appeal.
Tracey Wright, the mother of two daughters, aged 16 and 10, has been told by Lord Justice Pitchford that it is “imperative” she find a job. Ruling on her ex-husband’s attempt to reduce maintenance payments, the judge added for good measure that, once a child was seven, any mother could reasonably be expected to seek work.
The Court of Appeal makes it all sound so easy for first wives. In some of the newspaper reports yesterday, a particularly nasty phrase was used about Tracey Wright – that she was looking for a “meal-ticket for life” from her ex-husband, a millionaire racehorse surgeon to whom she had been married for 11 years until their divorce in 2008. The original settlement of a mortgage-free £450,000 house and £75,000 in maintenance and school fees might seem generous but my sympathy is entirely with her. Starting out again in the workplace at 51, must seem like a daunting prospect for the former riding instructor who lives with her 10 year old daughter. And I have found over and over how few allowances are made for lone mothers with children.
Because she stuck to her guns, and went to court to challenge the initial ruling last year, Tracey Wright has now been forced to sell her house to pay her legal bills of around £100,000. That means her two children (her 16-year-old is at boarding school) will have been uprooted twice in their young lives – first from the £1.3m seven-bedroom matrimonial home in Suffolk to the smaller house in Newmarket that she bought after the divorce in 2008, and now to somewhere miles away near Tracey’s mother in York.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/divorce/11432703/Team-Tracey-Wright-Why-women-deserve-to-be-supported-by-their-exes.html
What say you Vital Villa?
The woman who wrote the article would make a pretty shitty feminist talk about painting women as helpless...
