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Calculator % split - please advise

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05 Oct 07 #4357 by Charlie123
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Hi,

Sorry if this an old question. Just used calculator with some estimated numbers for house/mortgage/salary/outgoings etc and the clculator worked on a 20/80 % split infavour of my x2b. Is this the spilt the courts will use ? if so then :(

Please advise.

thanks

Charlie

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05 Oct 07 #4367 by LittleMrMike
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Sorry to make the glaringly obvious point, but we don't know what figures you fed into the calculator and therefore can't comment.

An 80/20 split of assets is not beyond the bounds of possibility, but in practice such a severe order would rarely be made in the absence of special circumstances, such as a very short marriage, or where the needs of one party were significantly higher than the other.

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03 Nov 07 #5782 by loobyloo
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i have just been on calculator and could not get true split as only accepts up to 99999£ for x2b salary when its more than double that. he has nothing to do with kids 8 and 10 and he still in mh. i have fdr 5th dec so was looking for a rough estimate it gave me 90% of assets which is great.....hope it happens as im pennyless with 2 kids in shared house 120miles from home to get away from him. can anyone reassure me as to courts being fair and not favouring proffessional!! thanks:side:

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03 Nov 07 #5785 by sexysadie
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Your ex2be earns more than 2 million pounds a year? I thought from your previous posts that he was a GP. I know they have had a rise recently, but surely not to that much.

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03 Nov 07 #5792 by loobyloo
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oops i meant 99999.... i wish hey!!!

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03 Nov 07 #5802 by wikivorce team
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Loobyloo,

The limit of 99999 is for one month's pay.

So unless he does earn over 1.2 million you should be able to use the calc.

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thank you for that thought i was gonna be loaded!!

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