Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren on the path of Divorce, Custody Battle On the Way with Elin availing services of Californian divorce lawyer
Posted on December 22, 2009
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TIGER Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren wants a divorce, sole custody and half his estimated £370 million ($671 million) fortune, according to a newspaper report. Ms Nordegren is reported to have engaged the services of renowned Californian divorce lawyer Sorrell Trope, who represented Britney Spears in her court battles with Kevin Federline. The superstar golfer has also reportedly reneged on a promise he made to his wife to go into rehabilitation to wean himself off the prescription drugs Ambien and Vicodin. A close friend of Ms Nordegren told the News of the World: “Tiger was supposed to be working on getting better and he hasn’t done anything. Instead he just went to stay with a friend and says he’s ‘trying to get better on his own’. ”Elin is livid he hasn’t checked into rehab and gotten himself off his drugs. He’s acting like a big baby,” the source said. ”Now she wants 100 per cent divorce, 100 per cent custody of the children and half of everything. And she won’t be changing her mind.”
The decision to walk out vs. work it out hinges on the quality of the couple’s marriage, experts say. “If this person was the love of your life and you felt intimately connected to him, you will usually stick it out,†says Mary Jo Rapini, a licensed intimacy/sex relationship psychotherapist. “But if the relationship felt sterile, you weren’t all that connected to the person and you have good self-esteem, you will probably leave the marriage.â€
Relationship exert Lisa Reynolds says a split after infidelity is more likely to occur if only one half of the couple is a celebrity. As a nonceleb, Nordegren was able to maintain some semblance of a normal life and didn’t constantly get the rules bent for her and have people falling at her feet.
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