When Ivana Moral divorced her husband after 25 years of marriage, she says he left her and their two daughters "with nothing."
Moral told inews this was "clearly this was a case of abuse to be completely excluded financially [by her ex-husband] with nothing left after my marriage ended."
Moral says the three of them were left with nothing "after all these years of putting all my time, energy, and love in the family. I was supporting my husband in his work and in the family as a mother and a father. I was never allowed access to his financial affairs; everything was in his name."
Upon their marriage, Moral was asked to sign a separation of goods agreement when she got married – meaning he would keep his wealth and they would split common possessions.
During the time she and her husband were married, he built a successful gym business "that allowed him to buy multiple luxury vehicles and an olive oil farm, valued at $6.4 million."
In the divorce ruling, Judge Laura Ruiz Alaminos ordered the man to pay Moral $215,000 for 25 years of unpaid domestic labor, as well as a monthly "pension" of $527, as well as $422 and $633 to his 20-year-old and 14-year-old daughters respectively.
Moral says she hopes her case would inspire other women.
Her lawyer, Marta Fuentes, added, "This ruling represents the labour of all the women in the shadows and who, without a doubt, constitute a fundamental support in personal, marital, and familiar terms during years and years so that the ex-husband could develop his professional career and a rise in wealth which at the moment of separation could not share.
"So he could get on in his career, she stayed at home to look after the children, and they never contacted anyone to help her. She was his shadow, working behind [him] so he could rise professionally and become someone."
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