As of this is an incentive for couples to decide to divorce. Most couples have tremendous financial difficulties when they divorce, and it is unlikely that £100 will be the deciding factor.
Divorce, often creates lack of financial security, on top of uncontrollable emotions. The divorcing couple often fail to address the financial issue until after they have already separated.
I recently worked with a woman who was left by her husband, he earns vast amounts of money as a lawyer, but they lived a lavish lifestyle and have a huge mortgage and constant overspending there is little known savings or investments.
With three children to support, and being a stay at home wife and mum, she is now 51 and her future does not look very secure.
She has to deal with the abandonment and betrayal by her husband, he just walked out one day without any warning, says there is no one else, and leaves her with having to move from her home, live on very little money, as they are greatly in debt, living on the belief that they would always be secure financially.
Yes, I can see her rushing for divorce because she will be £100 better off.
Most couples do not have such a vast income or savings and investments, that they are better off once divorced. Yes of course there are some, particularly if one the couple "married well", and the marriage took them from a place of minimal income to a better life style, as in the McCartney vs Mills, she could never have made that much money in a lifetime working a regular job. But that is the exception rather than the rule.
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