Spanish man must pay his ex-wife £180,000 for 25 years of unpaid minimum wage domestic work during their marriage
- Ivana Moral’s husband was ordered to pay more than £182,000 by Malaga court
- He was also told to pay her and their two daughters a hefty monthly pension
A Spanish court has ordered a businessman to pay his ex-wife £180,000 for 25 years of unpaid domestic work, based on the minimum wage during their marriage.
Ivana Moral’s husband was ordered to pay her £204,624.86 – just over £182,000 – in a record divorce settlement made public today.
Judge Laura Ruiz Alaminos, sitting in a court in Velez-Malaga in southern Spain, calculated the figure based on the couple’s annual minimum wage during the marriage, the i news website reports.
The divorced couple share two daughters and according to the ruling, during their marriage, Ivana spent almost all of her time taking care of their family and working as a housewife.
Ivana’s husband also has to pay her a pension of £444 a month, as well as £356 and £533 to his two daughters, who are now 20 and 14 years old.
Ivana Moral’s husband was ordered to pay her £204,624.86 – just over £182,000 – in a record divorce settlement made public today.
The mother-of-two, who married her ex in 1995 before filing for divorce in 2020, has said she is happy with the payoff after years of hard work.
“Obviously this was a case of abuse to be completely shut out financially (by my ex-husband) with nothing left after my marriage ended, so me and my daughters were left with nothing after all these years of wasting all my time, energy and love. in the family,’ she told me.
‘I supported my husband in his work and in the family as a mother and father. I was never allowed access to his financial affairs; everything was in his name.’
Since her marriage, Ivana has committed herself to “essentially working from home, which meant taking care of the home and family and everything that comes with it,” the ruling said.
The couple’s marriage was governed by a separation of property regime, which Ms. Moral’s husband had asked her to sign at the start of their marriage.
It specified that whatever each side earned was theirs alone, sharing only assets.
The arrangement would have prevented Mrs. Moral from accessing the wealth she had acquired through years of working together.
She told me that she has now spoken out on her cause because she wants women to know what they are entitled to.
Ms Moral has said she has now spoken out on her case because she wants women to know what they are entitled to
Judge Laura Ruiz Alaminos, sitting in a court in Velez-Malaga in southern Spain (pictured), ordered Ivana Moral’s husband to pay her €204,624.86
Legal documents showed a breakdown of what she would have earned annually in the years between June 1995 and December 2020.
Speaking to Cadena Ser radio, Ivana said her husband didn’t “want her to work outside the home.”
He would only let her work in the gyms he owned, where she handled “public relations” and acted as a monitor.
Otherwise, she said, “I devoted myself exclusively to housekeeping, taking care of my husband and the house,” she said.
“He let me take on the specific role” of doing household chores, to the extent that “I was in a place where I couldn’t really do much else,” she said.
The sentence had made her “very happy” because it was “very well deserved,” she said.
Ms Moral’s ex-husband, who only wanted to split their home and assets after the divorce, is expected to appeal the decision.