Woman left a ‘pauper’ after £3.65m divorce settlement

A WOMAN who married her lodger will have to sell her “magnificent” country home to meet a divorce judgement.

Woman left a ‘pauper’ after £3.65m divorce settlement

A panel of judges at the Court of Appeal, headed by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, ruled that Heather Martin-Dye must pay her former husband another £650,000 on top of the £3m he has already received under the settlement.

Ms Martin-Dye, 54, who said she brought 90% of the assets into the marriage to former British Airways pilot Philip, claimed after the hearing that she had been reduced to a pauper.

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