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A Quebec Supreme Court judge ordered a man to pay his current ex-wife $ 75,000 monthly child support and nearly $ 20,000 monthly child child support.
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A mother of two received one of the largest child support payments in Quebec history after a three-year divorce battle valued at $ 12 million.
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In addition to paying $ 2 million in legal fees, a Quebec Supreme Court judge ordered a man to pay his current ex-wife $ 75,000 each month and nearly $ 20,000 in monthly child support payments.
The couple, whose names have been blacked out from the 55-page April 5 ruling, met in Paris in 1990 and moved to Quebec in 2013. They own several properties in the province, including one valued at nearly $ 6.5 million.
The man had two children from a previous relationship, now 33 and 32 years old, and the couple later had two children together, now 20 and 15 years old. They married in Belgium in 2004 and filed for divorce in 2014.
During the trial, the woman asked for enough money to maintain the “status quo” of her lifestyle, which she estimated to cost between $ 8 million and $ 10 million a year.
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The 71-year-old husband denied the requested amounts on the grounds that he had been more than generous to his wife over the years and described the sums claimed as “disproportionate and unreasonable”.
According to the verdict, the husband worked in the art trade from a young age before later working as a real estate developer in France. After a heart attack in 2004, he was told he only had five years to live and began selling his fortune. A financial report prepared for the trial estimated the husband’s net worth at $ 66 million and the wife’s at $ 34 million.
In assessing what was to be paid to the wife, the court took the couple’s lifestyle into account.
During a 22-month period in 2016 and 2017, the ruling said the husband spent 390 days abroad, including trips to the Dominican Republic, Spain, France, Belgium, Dubai, Florida and Saudi Arabia. The children only traveled to the United States and the Caribbean during the same period.
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“The family was used to a completely different way of life,” wrote Quebec Superior Court Judge Carole Hallée.
Hallée awarded several sums to the wife and children.
The woman had asked for $ 90,000 for a car for one of the children because he had recently got his driver’s license and his father had promised a Range Rover SUV. Each of the children got luxury cars from their father when they were able to drive, she argued in court. The husband was asked to pay $ 40,000 for the car.
Hallée also let the wife and children use several of the family’s vehicles, including a RAM 1500 pickup, a Cadillac Escalade, a Mercedes, a Rolls-Royce, as well as tractors, golf carts, snowmobiles, and jet skis.
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The woman also asked for $ 180,000 in medical expenses for one of the children who plans to hide or remove scars related to chickenpox. The court ruled that if the required documents were provided, it would allow the application. The court refused to give her the $ 150,000 therapy fee she requested.
The judge also took offense at the way the couple treated each other during the trial. The litigation, which took place in Belgium and Quebec, spanned 80 court hearings over a period of three years and included more than 40 petitions and judgments.
“The tribunal can only regret the parties’ stance on this case,” Hallée wrote, adding that the couple had spent more than $ 12 million in legal fees.
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