Golfer Colin Montgomery has just agreed to hand over £15 million as a divorce settlement to former wife Eimear, a story that unsurprisingly dominated the headlines.
Yet for most women, going through a divorce is likely to be far less financially rewarding, not to mention being emotionally traumatic.
Figures show that there were more than 167,000 divorces in the UK in 2004. The majority of women going through divorce are unlikely to be fighting over multi-million pound settlements. The average is about £13,000.
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A season of goodwill? forget it, let's divorceForget it, All too often, family rows are as much a part of the festive season as Santa Claus and Auld Lang Syne.
And while most couples manage to patch up their differences in the New Year, Christmas is the final nail in the coffin for many marriages.
Warring couples are driven to take the first steps to divorce after the emotionally charged festive season when high expectations are often followed by disappointment. The high financial cost of Christmas has its part to play, too, triggering irreconcilable differences over money.
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