Petition Amend divorce law to protect survivors of spousal sexual abuse
Change the law so that in cases where one spouse has been convicted of rape or other serious sexual offence against the other, the survivor is legally safeguarded from any financial claims made by their abuser in divorce proceedings.
More details
The offender should not be entitled to any share of the survivor’s assets, whether those assets were brought into the marriage or gained during it. The survivor should retain full control of their property, savings, and pension contributions, without the offender being able to make any claim on them in divorce proceedings. Survivors should not face further harm or traumatisation in divorce proceedings, nor should they be expected to fund the lifestyle of an offender who attacked them.
123 signatures
Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency
10,000 signatures required to get a government response
At 10,000 signatures...
At 10,000 signatures, government will respond to this petition
At 100,000 signatures...
At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament