"The financial remedies proceedings between the wife and the husband were conducted against the background of the wife's very wealthy family having very negative feelings about her and very positive feelings about the husband...This is very much an exception to the normal rule that 'blood is thicker than water'," the judge commented.
"It is common ground that the consequence of these matters was that the financial remedies proceedings between the wife and the husband were conducted against the background of the wife's very wealthy family having very negative feelings about her and very positive feelings about the husband.
She has now won a ruling overturning the order, after learning her super-rich estranged parents Bobby and Felicite Perez De La Sala have sided with her ex-husband, labelling her a "Judas" and secretly gifting him around £27.6m of family money, whilst at the same time cutting her out.
In a ruling at the Central Family Court, Judge Edward Hess ordered that the financial fallout of the divorce be reconsidered, with Ms Copinger-Symes now demanding her former husband pay about £14m of his new-found wealth.
"There was also a huge row in November 2017 over the ownership and occupation of a family property at 2, Marlborough Street, London SW3, in which the wife appears to have behaved in a hostile way to other family members.".
