Amend divorce law to protect survivors of spousal sexual abuse

Background

Change the law so that in cases where one spouse has been convicted of rape or other serious sexual offence against the other, the survivor is legally safeguarded from any financial claims made by their abuser in divorce proceedings.

Additional details

The offender should not be entitled to any share of the survivor’s assets, whether those assets were brought into the marriage or gained during it. The survivor should retain full control of their property, savings, and pension contributions, without the offender being able to make any claim on them in divorce proceedings. Survivors should not face further harm or traumatisation in divorce proceedings, nor should they be expected to fund the lifestyle of an offender who attacked them.

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