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New Companies Are Investing In Divorce

It’s not news that some try to profit from other’s divorces, but now investment firms have found a new and innovative way to make money from other people’s failed unions. A number of new businesses have started up recently that lend money to unhappily married spouses and charge a percentage of the divorce case winnings as a fee.

Who can these businesses help? In many cases, they take on those who don’t have the money to fight for their half of their marriages assets in the divorce – in many cases women who don’t have access to funds or don’t have the power to fight against their husband’s more expensive legal teams.

While some say that these companies are taking advantage of what has traditionally been a personal and emotional process, others, like the owner of a new divorce investment business Stacey Napp, believe that they are giving women a chance to fight for what they deserve by offering them a level playing field to get their half of the pie. In Napp’s mind, she is helping the underdog who might otherwise be treated unfairly in court. Napp just recently finished an eight-year battle with her ex-husband for her fair share of his mobile home business – all funded with the help of family and friends.

Napp told The New York Times that her first handful of clients fit the profile of many wives that get an unfair shake in divorce court: they don’t have jobs, they are raising young children, and their husbands own businesses that make it hard to determine the family’s net worth.

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