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Mediator calls on the Government to introduce legislation for pre-nuptial agreements

'We deal with divorce in a difficult system' – Divorce mediator Michelle Browne

Niamh Horan

Sometimes love isn’t enough. That’s the hard-earned wisdom of Irish divorce expert Michelle Browne, a family mediator who has written a new book that provides an eye-opening critique of the divorce system in Ireland and calls on the Government to finally introduce legislation for pre-nuptial agreements, more than 25 years after divorce was first introduced here.

In the book, Scars of Divorce: How to avoid them and achieve an amicable divorce in Modern Ireland, Browne argues that the only section of society benefiting from the absence of pre-nuptial legislation are lawyers who can earn vast sums of money when high net-worth marriages break down.