Judge tells divorcee to pay her ex-husband half the £160,000 cost of his trans surgery in millionaire couple’s court battle

A judge ordered a divorce to pay half of his ex -husband’s trans -surgical invoice of £ 160,000.

The judge said that the surgery is not a ‘enthusiasm’, but a ‘need’ in what is thought to be the first case of the species – that is, ‘reasonable’ to divide the cost for the couple who cannot be named for legal reasons.

His 60 -year -old wife claimed that his husband’s decision to pass his decision to deteriorate his marriage, and therefore he was unfair to raise £ 80,000 for the procedure.

During the hearing at the Brighton Family Court, his 58 -year -old husband argued that ‘there should be no surgery of a cancer and that the cost of this surgery should be covered by common funds’.

The couple first met in London in the late 1990s and worked in the financial sector before marriage in 2002, when the husband lived as a man.

Twenty years later, in 2022, his wife announced that ‘switch to a woman’ and ‘started hormone treatment at that stage’.

His wife started divorce processes two months later, telegram Reports.

During their marriage, the couple accumulated 3 million pounds in common assets and is defined as ‘a very international lifestyle in various countries and purchasing property in various countries’.

The husband’s surgery took place in 2024 after the couple left for two years and paid £ 160,000 invoice was paid using their common money.

After they were specially trained, they shared two children at the university.

The husband’s surgery took place last year after the couple left for two years and paid using their common money.

The cost of £ 160,00 was at the center of the legal dispute, which seems to have cost about £ 1 million, the double.

During the separation, her husband claimed that she could not pay maintenance to her wife and children by court order.

However, his husband, who was trained as a massage therapist and a reiki practitioner, spent £ 14,000 on an Amex card in a month in a month, essentially ‘in clothing, nails, jewelery and restaurants’ and received tattoo at £ 13,000 in six months.

The Minister, the surgery ‘normally to be met with other medical costs to be treated in front of other medical costs’ argued.

In a judge’s decision, the husband said that his wife is always transfers, ‘important anxiety, depression and distress causing the’ gender dysphorisi provides medical evidence, he said.

His wife, ‘the defendant is not aware that he wants to switch to the end of marriage,’ he said.

He added that he was a ‘destructive and big surprise’ and that he aims to live his new life as a lesbian woman.

Surgery costs should be paid from their personal assets, saying that it is unfair, the money ‘decision decision’ causes the end of marriage ‘to recover.

Her husband replied: ‘You are marrying a trans person. You live with a trans person. You will benefit from a trans person. They commit suicide and you support them. ‘

Judge Stuart Farquhar, for the trans woman, ‘This is an extremely difficult and emotionally drain experience, although the husband’s decision to switch to a woman does not understand someone else and especially’ former wife, he said.

But he said The Court ‘cannot consider the reasons for the deterioration of a marriage in financial legal procedures’.

He said that ‘surgery faces a real and deep medical/psychological need’ and ‘was not realized as a enthusiasm’.

For this reason, the judge decided that the money of money is ‘reasonable’ to spend ‘from common sources’.