A family judge has criticised an adulterous man for contesting a divorce in what has been described as an ‘awful case.’
The man contested the divorce despite admitting that he committed adultery over 22 years of their marriage.
Her Honour Judge Lynn Roberts said the case was ‘extraordinary’ and described the man as ‘deeply dishonest.’
She said, “I do not believe him about any of the matters in issue in this case. His attitudes displayed in these proceedings are those which were common 40 years ago, not today.”
The judge added, “Mr H’s whole case has indeed been completely futile, a huge waste of money, a tragic destruction of family relationships, and all, in my opinion, to satisfy Mr H’s own vanity and need to be in control and for the other reasons I have suggested earlier. All he had to do was to not contest the divorce, a divorce he wanted, as virtually everybody else in the country does, and this couple would have had their decree nisi last year, the various relationships would, in all likelihood, have been well on the way to healing by now and the money saved for the family.”
