A man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife compensation for years devoted to raising children and doing housework while they were married.
The Argentinian woman, now 70, gave her career after obtaining an economics degree to become a housewife.
The couple - known only as ML (wife) and DB (husband) - were married for almost 30 years between 1982 and 2009 - and were based first in Comodoro Rivadavia and then the neighbourhood of Palermo in Buenos Aires.
The pair's divorce was finalised in 2011, according to local news outlet Clarin, when the woman was in her 60s and sadly found she was considered 'too old' to find work.
Judge Victoria Famá, of Argentina's National Civil Court No. 92, ordered her former husband should pay her eight million Argentine pesos (roughly £145,000) after she decided to seek financial compensation, the Mirror reports.
This huge sum has been described as an "unprecedented" amount of money to receive as part of a divorce settlement.
However the judge said that she considered it to be a "reasonable" amount "in order to rebalance the disparate economic situation of the spouses resulting from the marriage and its breakup."
The judge continued to explain how the woman had faced financial difficulties, while the husband had "a good time".
She added: "The economic dependence of wives on their husbands is one of the central mechanisms through which women are subordinated to society.
"In most families, women still mainly assume the burden of domestic chores and the care of children, even when they perform some external activity."
Despite this, it was made clear that someone who possessed fewer qualifications than ML and who hadn't left an existing job, wouldn't have been granted the same level of compensation.
