{"id":208367,"date":"2025-12-24T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208367\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:42:10","slug":"the-steep-price-of-deceit-what-two-divorce-cases-tell-us-about-how-the-courts-are-dealing-with-marital-breakdown-on-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208367\/","title":{"rendered":"The steep price of deceit: What two divorce cases tell us about how the courts are dealing with marital breakdown on farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">One farmer counts cost of concealing asset while another pays price for \u2018bogus deed\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The High Court warns spouses in farming divorces against making &quot;deliberate deception&quot; or denying asset ownership, following cases where husbands misled the court about inherited and valuable lands. Stock Image.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a16468e1-c309-4f96-b1dd-f654a436d9a5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The High Court warns spouses in farming divorces against making &#8220;deliberate deception&#8221; or denying asset ownership, following cases where husbands misled the court about inherited and valuable lands. Stock Image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For most farming families, the farm is more than just a capital asset \u2013 it\u2019s their home, and often their sole source of income for generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When marital breakdown occurs, the High Court is often called upon to perform the emotive task of dividing assets while trying to allow the farm to keep going as an operating entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One farmer counts cost of concealing asset while another pays price for \u2018bogus deed\u2019 The High Court warns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,37550,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-208367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ciaran-moran","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}