02\/06\/2026 a las 08:12h.<\/p>\n
A divorced woman has been awarded a lifetime pension and an \u20ac80,000 lump sum after spending 32 years out of work to look after the family home.<\/p>\n
The Provincial Court of Pontevedra in Galicia, north-west Spain, ruled that the 57-year-old had completely sacrificed her own professional career to care for her husband.<\/p>\n
The court ordered her 82-year-old ex-husband to pay her a lifetime compensatory pension of \u20ac600 a month, alongside the lump-sum payout.<\/p>\n
During their 32-year marriage, the husband focused entirely on his business interests, becoming the sole source of income for the family.<\/p>\n
Following their divorce, the woman argued that she had been unable to enter the workforce due to her domestic responsibilities. A lower court initially ruled in her favour, but her ex-husband appealed against the decision. He sought to cancel the lifetime pension, claiming his only income was a Swiss pension and that the couple had employed domestic staff.<\/p>\n
However, the High Court rejected his appeal. Judges ruled that a temporary pension was inappropriate, noting that after more than three decades without employment or specialised training, it was highly unlikely the woman could overcome her precarious financial situation.<\/p>\n
“At 57 years old, the only likely employment options available to her would be poorly paid roles in the hospitality sector,” the ruling stated.<\/p>\n
The judges also noted that there was “a situation where the appellant’s will prevailed over that of his wife in decision-making, which manifested in the requirement that she renounce any employment outside the home.”<\/p>\n
The court further ruled on the lump-sum compensation, which is legally required to offset domestic work in marriages with a separation of assets.<\/p>\n
The ex-husband had attempted to block the payout\u2014originally set at \u20ac192,000 – by arguing that the couple had no children and used a cleaning lady. The court dismissed this argument, stating he failed to prove that domestic staff had been continuously employed.<\/p>\n
However, judges reduced the final payout to \u20ac80,000. They cited three factors for the reduction: the couple had no children, the husband had solely covered all marital expenses during the marriage, and the reduction would prevent “double compensation” alongside the monthly pension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"02\/06\/2026 a las 08:12h. A divorced woman has been awarded a lifetime pension and an \u20ac80,000 lump sum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[6461,829,223479,79,122155,223480,18,207494,19,17,122211,161244,2987,234,235,223481,80,2058],"class_list":["post-516055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-after","tag-and","tag-awarded","tag-business","tag-domestic","tag-e80000","tag-eire","tag-housewife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifetime","tag-payout","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-unpaid","tag-work","tag-years"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116684803598338453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}