Standing by his earlier ruling, a Cook County judge held Monday that half of the fortune amassed by a Chicago energy industry magnate should go to his wife – about $184 million – in their divorce case. Circuit Judge William Boyd originally ruled in October that Maya Polsky should share half of husband Michael Polsky’s fortune, but both sides had asked the judge to reconsider. Boyd’s decision Monday actually meant an additional $8 million for Maya Polsky because updated financial figures showed the couple’s net worth had grown since last October.
Lawyers for Michael Polsky, chief executive of Invenergy LLC, had argued that his “skill, genius and drive” had created the fortune and that his wife, primarily a homemaker during the 31-year marriage, didn’t deserve half. Those lawyers didn’t return a telephone call seeking comment, but in a Tribune story Monday, a legal expert said he expected any decision to be appealed.
| Wow! And more than $170 million of the award is not taxable according to her attorney. |
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That’s an obscene amount of money. She should be able to live quite comfortably on $30,000,000 or so.
Isn’t it obscene if he doesn’t share when he started with a lot more than that? A friend/wife can be pretty valuable.
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Yea how much did the lawyers get?
Not taking sides in this one…..I do have something to bring up. I seriously doubt that the guy had 148 million in cash on hand to give her. I’m betting that he will have to sell up stocks, bonds, and property to fill the judgement. If you have to sell off the assests that are the basis of your business and the reason why you have a 300 million worth to split, then that leaves the person who stayed home and told the cook what to feed you, or told the nanny the kids names with the real fortune and you scrambling to keep your business alive after it’s been destroyed.
It may not be the case here…..but this has been the case in several high profile divorce cases in Britain over the last several years.
Money is no object in divorce. I got a cool $2 million from my husband and I was still alone and miserable and much is the case with most divorced women who come out with money. I found this site http://www.firstwivesworld.com the other day and there are a lot of women on there with the same kind of problem, in fact, its full of stories from divorced women. I suggest any of you who are divorced and searching for life again to check out the site. It helped me.