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What is a woman worth? That is the question that has to be faced by divorcing couples and by their lawyers. The answers seem to
What is a woman worth? That is the question that has to be faced by divorcing couples and by their lawyers. The answers seem to
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2022-08-06
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What is a woman worth? That is the question that has to be faced by divorcing couples and by their lawyers. The answers seem to be getting curiouser and curiouser. Last week a judge ordered an insurance broker to give his former wife a settlement of £48m. She had earlier refused his offer of about £20m, which is why the matter went to court. No doubt Beverley Charman was an exemplary wife, and it is written in the Book of Proverbs that the price of a virtuous woman is above rubies, but even so, £48m seems a little steep. It would buy a couple of continents’ worth of rubies.
What women are really worth is beset with confusion and contradiction. There was a time when what women wanted was equal pay for equal work. One of the logical consequences was that no woman was entitled to take out of a marriage any more than she brought into it. That view was later softened by a recognition that childbearing and childcare present a serious opportunity cost to most women. So now people tend to agree that at divorce a woman should be compensated both for the real value that she brought to the marriage and for the opportunity cost to herself—her long slide down the career ladder, her loss of a personal pension, her reduced chances of finding another spouse.
Then there is a surprisingly unliberated tendency among women, and among men, to make estimates that are unfairly biased in favor of women. The judge in the Charmans’ hearing said that this was one of the very small category of cases where the wealth created is of extraordinary proportions from extraordinary talent and energy of the husband and therefore the husband could keep more than half the assets. That still left the wife with 48m (37% of the assets). But then the judge made some odd remarks about old-fashioned attitudes. Discussing John Charman’s determination "to protect what he regards as wealth generated entirely by his efforts", he said: "In the narrow, old-fashioned sense, that perspective is understandable, if somewhat outdated."
Wrong. It is the judge who sounds old-fashioned. This country is awash with clever and hardworking men who make huge sums of money while their wives
do little to contribute to domestic comfort and not much to advance their husband’s careers
. That does not mean they are not entitled to proper compensation on divorce, but I think the assumption that they are entitled to half the fruits of the marriage, unless there is good reason why not, is absurd.
Which of the following statement can best represent the judge’s opinion in Charman’s case?
选项
A、The wealth in the family is created through the hardworking of both parties.
B、In some sense, the husband’s attitude toward the case is reasonable.
C、There is a trend of husband trying to keep the majority of the family assets.
D、Young divorced couples don’t believe that wealth should be separated equally.
答案
B
解析
根据法官的观点定位到第三段。文中指出法官认为按狭义传统的观点,丈夫要求捍卫自己财产的想法是可以理解的,但有些过时了。因此,B项为正确答案。文中提到绝大部分的家庭财产依靠的是丈夫的努力,A项扩大了妻子的作用,为错误选项;文中提到,法官认为丈夫要求捍卫自己财产的想法是可以理解的,但并未提及丈夫想占有多半家产的做法是一种趋势,所以C项错误;文中没有提到法官对于年轻夫妻离婚时应如何分配财产的看法,故D项为错误选项。
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