"Get a job!": Judge tells wife to go back to work ================================================= !['Get a job!': Judge tells wife to go back to work](https://vardags.com/images/pictures/_360/e7c4b89a47216ef8108c20e901843c1f.jpeg)Ayesha Vardag spoke to the [Evening Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/get-a-job-judge-tells-ex-wife-of-millionaire-vet-in-landmark-blow-to-meal-ticket-settlements-10064662.html) following a decision by Lord Justice Pitchford, who told a wife she had no right to be supported for life by her former husband. The case concerned a racehorse surgeon who had been ordered to pay his wife and children £75,000 per year in maintenance and school fees. Approaching retirement, he applied to the court to have the settlement reduced, arguing that it was unfair to expect him to support his ex-wife, when she made no effort to seek work. The court agreed with his argument, ordering that personal maintenance payments to the wife must cease. This decision was then endorsed by the Court of Appeal. Speaking to the paper, Ayesha said "*This reflects a shift in the zeitgeist towards mothers being expected to get back into the workplace after divorce. In a needs case, there's no gravy train for life. The reality is that parents work now, male and female, and everyone's supposed to pull their weight as soon as possible Unless the family's swimming in millions, the luxury of the stay-at-home Mummy is fast being confined to history*." "Ayesha Vardag - Britain's top divorce lawyer." ![The Huffington Post](https://vardags.com/images/logo/huffpost.png) "Ayesha Vardag - Woman of the Year"![GG2](https://vardags.com/images/logo/gg2-3.png) "Leading, Magic Circle law firm."Mr Justice Coleridge "A handful of firms dominate the so-called 'glamour' end of the market ... Vardags"The Times "One of the best divorce lawyers in the country"Marie Claire "Ayesha Vardag - 'diva of divorce' for the world's super rich" ![BBC](https://vardags.com/images/logo/bbc.png) "Dr Stephen Bence is a financial genius."Lewis Marks KC "Ayesha Vardag - the Queen of divorce"Daily Mail "Vardags brilliantly argued my case to a resounding victory"Pauline Chai (client) "Britain's top divorce lawyer" ![The Telegraph](https://vardags.com/images/logo/telegraph.png) Articles by John Oxley ---------------------- [International press report the latest on Pauline Chai case](https://vardags.com/posts/international-press-chai-case "International press report the latest on Pauline Chai case") [Courts to use DNA tests to avoid 'embarrassing' legal battles](https://vardags.com/posts/family-courts-use-dna-tests-avoid-embarrassing-legal-battles "Courts to use DNA tests to avoid embarrassing legal battles") ["Get a job!": Judge tells wife to go back to work](https://vardags.com/posts/get-job-judge-tells-wife-go-back-work "'Get a job!': Judge tells wife to go back to work") [Keen to leave your rich husband? Come to London!](https://vardags.com/posts/keen-leave-rich-husband-come-london "Keen to leave your rich husband? Come to London!") [Parental Rights and Wrongs in Divorce](https://vardags.com/posts/parental-rights-wrongs-divorce "Parental Rights and Wrongs in Divorce")