A Spanish court told a businessman to pay his ex-wife Ivana Moral £180,000 ($215K) for 25 years of unpaid housework.
In a record divorce settlement, Moral, who is 48, will get 204,624.86 euros, which is just over £182,000.
According to a source,
Ivana Moral will receive a monthly pension of €500 (about $528) from her ex-husband, whom she asked for a divorce from in 2020.
The outlets reported the total amount for the pension was decided by a Málaga judge who based it on the minimum monthly professional wage for the 25 years the pair were married,
wrote a source.
The husband, who has not been named, was also told to pay his two daughters, who are 20 and 14, €400 (£356) and €600 (£533).
A source said that during their 25 years of marriage, Ivana did “everything” around the house.
According to a source,
Ivana Moral, a 48-year-old from Malaga, Spain, told a courtroom in Vélez-Málaga she felt “economically threatened, worthless, always depending on the same person” during her marriage.
Over this period, she worked at home raising her two daughters, taking care of her husband, and ensuring their house was “always impeccable”,
she said.
A local news source said Judge Laura Ruiz Alaminos came up with the number based on the annual minimum wage during the couple’s 25 years of marriage.
The mother of two said she got married in 1995 and took care of her husband during their marriage. This helped his assets grow, but not hers.
Clearly this was a case of abuse to be completely excluded financially (by my ex-husband) with nothing left after my marriage ended, so me and my daughters were left with nothing after all these years of putting all my time, energy and love in the family,
Moral said.
I was supporting my husband in his work and in the family as a mother and a father. I was never allowed access to his financial affairs; everything was in his name.
Ivana also said that when her daughter turned 16, her ex wouldn’t pay for her college.
This ruling represents the labor of all the women in the shadows and who, without a doubt, constitute a fundamental support in personal, marital, and familiar terms during years and years so that the ex-husband could develop his professional career and a rise in wealth which at the moment of separation could not share,
Ivana’s attorney said.
So he could get on in his career, she stayed at home to look after the children, and they never contacted anyone to help her,
attorney Marta Fuentes said.
She was his shadow, working behind [him] so he could rise professionally and become someone.
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