{"id":5637,"date":"2009-02-10T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-02-10T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:56:24","slug":"i-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/divorce.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39691\" alt=\"divorce\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/divorce.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/divorce.png 400w, https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/divorce-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Scottish lawyers are noticing a significant rise in the number of men seeking divorce in Scotland.\u00a0 Apparently they stand to benefit significantly from Scottish laws in which a &#8220;clean break&#8221; dividing of assets is the norm, as opposed to English divorce laws in which the non-earner is generally granted a lump sum plus a share of future earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers term this strategy &#8216;forum shopping&#8217;, and for the non-earner\/primary carer in a marriage, this trend will leave them worse off compared to those divorcing in England.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson is, if you&#8217;re contemplating divorce, think carefully about the location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish lawyers are noticing a significant rise in the number of men seeking divorce in Scotland.\u00a0 Apparently they stand to benefit significantly from Scottish laws in which a &#8220;clean break&#8221; dividing of assets is the norm, as opposed to English divorce laws in which the non-earner is generally granted a lump sum plus a share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish_news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/divorce.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}