The Court of First Instance and Instruction number 3 of the Malaga town of Vélez-Málaga has recognizedor to a divorced woman who is compensated with 204,624.86 euros As a reward for work in the home and care performed during the marriage.
In the sentence, to which Efe has had access, the divorce is declared and a series of measures, including compensation for the domestic work of the woman during the marriage, being the regime of separation of assets in forcesince he developed all household chores “exclusively” and taking care of the two daughters in common.
The lawsuit urged recognition of said compensation, since while the woman “was deprived of any possible career path for that exclusive dedication to home and family”, the man, “throughout the years of marriage accumulated and exponentially increased his wealth“, without this resulting in an increase in hers.
“A personal right”
The judge points out that the compensatory pension refers to “a personal right of the spouse who, as a result of the separation or divorce, suffers from a worsening in their economic situation compared to that enjoyed during the marriage and in relation to the position of the other spouse”.
The couple married on June 23, 1995 and it was in 2020 when the separation occurred.
The sentence indicates that the 48-year-old woman, She has been dedicated to caring for the home and her daughters“with all that this implies, contributing punctually in the family businesses” where on occasions did cleaning work.
The judge explains that although the husband’s representation says that he was compensated with the transfer of part of the shares of a company, “there is no evidence that said transfer was made to compensate it in the event of the breakup of the spouses.”
In addition to the compensation, the sentence establishesalimony and that each spouse is responsible for certain housing expenses and half of those that are generated in an extraordinary way.
until she works
A compensatory pension is also set for two years, the time that is considered “adequate” for her to be able to join the labor market.
The lawyer representing the woman, Marta Fuentes, from the Gentius Abogados office in Torre del Mar, in Vélez-Málaga, has expressed her satisfaction with the resolution because “it represents recognition of the work of all the women who are in the shadows despite because they are a fundamental support in the couple”.
He has lamented that many of these women remain “in precarious situations and with few possibilities of accessing the labor market given their exclusive dedication to the family and for the most part to their husbands’ businesses”.
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“Without a doubt they deserve not only the recognition, but the quantification of that work without which that heritage would not exist,” said the lawyer, who has stressed that the woman since she has separated has finished ESO for people over 18 years of age. and has started several training courses.
The sentence is not firm but from Gentius Abogados they hope “that if this sentence is appealed it will be fully ratified by the Provincial Court of Malaga so that it abounds in jurisprudence existing in this regard until its total consolidation and normalization”.