Women are now living longer, inheriting valuable properties and other assets from their spouses and receiving generous divorce settlements.

现在，女性的寿命普遍比男性长，她们可以从配偶那里继承贵重物品和其它财产，如果离婚的话，她们也可以得到可观的财产。

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The huge equity transfer would make this one of the most expensive divorce settlements in China to date.

如此规模的股权转让，将使它成为中国迄今为止最贵的离婚案。

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Celebrities who pony up rich divorce settlements to their exes are thick on the ground in Hollywood.

FORBES: Celebrity Divorces--Women Who Paid

In America and most other European countries, divorce settlements take into account only those assets acquired during a marriage.

ECONOMIST: Divorce laws

These were often stay-at-home parents who didn't have the cash to hire decent lawyers, but had a good chance of landing handsome divorce settlements.

WSJ: Dialing Up Dollars for Divorce