{"id":24495,"date":"2011-09-06T07:46:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24495"},"modified":"2011-09-06T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:46:04","slug":"richard-collins-on-pierre-lagrange-straight-divorce-and-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2011\/richard-collins-on-pierre-lagrange-straight-divorce-and-gay-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Richard Collins on Pierre Lagrange, straight divorce and gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spear&#8217;s &#8211; Following the news today that\u00a0Pierre Lagrange, a co-founder of hedge fund giant GLG, has left his wife for a man and may have to hand over half of his \u00a3300 million worth in the divorce settlement, questions about pre-nups, divorce settlements and civil partnerships have been raised.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Collins, a divorce partner at\u00a0 Charles Russell LLP, said on these subjects:\u00a0\u201cWith news of the estimated \u00a3300 million Lagrange divorce breaking, the eye-watering size of 50 per cent awards and the concept of fairness come once again under the spotlight. Even though one partner may have made over \u00a3300m from his or her own efforts, it is rare that the Court will award less than 50 per cent of the capital to a spouse in a long marriage due to his or her \u2018special contribution\u2019 in generating the fortune.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spearswms.com\/spears-world\/wire\/26627\/richard-collins-on-pierre-lagrange-straight-divorce-and-gay-marriage.thtml\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spear&#8217;s &#8211; Following the news today that\u00a0Pierre Lagrange, a co-founder of hedge fund giant GLG, has left his wife for a man and may have to hand over half of his \u00a3300 million worth in the divorce settlement, questions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24496,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495\/revisions\/24496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}