WORLDWIDE Divorce
“IS LONDON THE DIVORCE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD?”
TOP TEN DIVORCE RATIOS WORLDWIDE
1 71% Belgium
2 3 4 68% 67% 66% Portugal Hungary Czech Republic
5 6 7 61% 60% 58% Spain Luxembourg Estonia
8 9 10 56% 55% 53% Cuba France USA
UK IS CURRENTLY AT 47%
You may think that divorce is rife in the However, European countries do lead UK, but our divorce ratio - the number the way in the list of highest divorce of divorces compared to the number of ratios (as at March 2015); with eight marriages in a given year - is still pretty countries posting above 50% divorce to low when compared with other nations. marriage stats.
TOP TEN HIGH VALUE DIVORCES:
(AND WHERE THEY WERE HEARD/SETTLED)
1 Estimated at £3billion Dmitry Rybolovlev v Elena Rybolovleva Lausanne, Switzerland
2 3 4 Estimated at Estimated at Estimated at £1.67billion £667–£800m £667million Alec Wildenstein v Bernie Ecclestone v Harold Hamm v Jocelyn Wildenstein Slavica Ecclestone Judith Hamm New York, USA London, UK Oklahoma, USA
5 6 7 Estimated at Estimated at Estimated at £567million £307million £284million Adnan Khashoggi v Craig McCaw v Mel Gibson v Soraya Khashoggi Wendy McCaw Robyn Moore Gibson USA Los Angeles, USA Los Angeles, USA
8 9 10 Estimated at Estimated at Estimated at £200million £123million £112million Roman Abramovich v Michael Polsky v Michael Jordan v Irina Abramovich Maya Polsky Juanita Jordan Moscow, Russia Chicago, USA Chicago, USA
Only one Briton features in the list of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, the top ten most valuable divorces: whose 2009 divorce from his second wife Slavica was estimated to have been worth around £667million to £800million.
By comparison, Guy Ritchie's divorce from Madonna was estimated to be valued at £51m to £61m and
Paul McCartney's divorce from Heather Mills was estimated at £32.4m
- both divorce settlement claims were heard in London.
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