Laura, I was making the simple point that a man as rich as Macca could give Heather a hundred million quid and not even notice it was missing from his bank account.
Simon R. Gladdish, Swansea , Wales

But you described him as "mean". You did not describe him as over-attentive to his bank account. The point of your argument seems to be that, no matter if she deserves the money or not, he should give it to her because he won't notice it was missing.

My point is, that even if he were the richest man on earth, and she was claiming one pence, she should not get it, as the issue at hand is not whether one can "afford" to give money to someone else, but whether the receiver has any moral right to it.

She does not deserve a single penny. She did nothing to create the wealth. She is a parasite of the worst sort. Their child deserves maintenance and payments should be made accordingly. But for Heather Mills - absolutely nothing. She wants £50m? Earn it.

Laura Roberts, London, UK

Laura, I was making the simple point that a man as rich as Macca could give Heather a hundred million quid and not even notice it was missing from his bank account. I think it was his daughter Stella who pointed out that he is not the most generous person on the planet. How ironic that they will be facing each other across a crowded courtroom on St Valentine's day.

Simon R. Gladdish, Swansea , Wales

During their 30-odd-year relationship, Paul and Linda McCartney brought up four children who, unlike many of their privileged peers, have never been in rehab or felt the need to air their family's linen in public. I can't comprehend the kind of money involved in this particular divorce settlement. But if there is any justice in our legal system, Ms Mills is entitled to no more than the cost of raising Beatrice. Whatever the outcome, I hope this little girl takes after her father, not her mother.

Susannah, Sydney, Australia

To make so many people happy yet have it ellude your grasp strikes me as tragic. Please excuse my candor Sir Paul, but your daughter Stellas' sussed this one out. The love and sense of normallcy you shared with your late wife Linda is something that happens rarely enough ...learn and live. Best of luck!

John Patrick, Houston, Texas

Sorry Denise ... if you use the figures above, £55 million is more like 6.7 % . If love has turned to hate, I think Paul should know by now the one thing your adversaries can't bear is when your nice to them. Give her £150 million, and stop trying to gag her. The truth always comes out in the end.

Will, London,

A man creates and performs some of the most important music of the 20th century, and grows rich from his efforts. A woman marries him for four years, bears him a child, then demands an obscene chunk of his earnings, as her matrimonial rights. Unfair? Absolutely. Should this cause us to reevaluate marital laws and customs, to limit how much booty (particularly prior personal holdings) a spouse can take from a partner when the couple splits up? Perhaps such a reconsideration may be the sole positive outcome of this very public, hideously expensive, messy divorce.

Tennyson Wright, Santa Barbara, CA USA

Welcome to the Club Lady Heather! Nearly 20 years ago I did "act for myself" or respond in pro(pria) per(sona) in the courts of California for a purpose quite different. Rather than trying to squeeze money out of Cynthia, the lovely heiress from Beverly Hills, who married me in the Catholic Church, bore me 5 wonderful children and raised them well I fought for an opportunity to settle swiftly out of court for double the amount opposing counsel produced her and our 3 minors in 5 years of increasingly bitter litigation. Reconciling belatedly my late ex significantly improved the marriage insurance concept she challenged me to dream up.
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E. Paul Imhof, Vienna, Austria

Heather's dismissal of her lawyers is a step in the right direction - but too late. The only real winners from most divorces are lawyers - and I should know, having divorced 3 times.
If you're separating my advice is:
1. Agree with your partner the finance, and, if there are kids, arrangements for bringing them up, BEFORE either of you talk to a lawyer. Often despite all the hurt you know what the right way forward is.
2. Then instruct your lawyers but tell them NOT to try and change the arrangements you've agreed. The trouble with lawyers is they feel they have to justify their huge fees by getting a bit more money for you, which creates more bad feeling and generally screws things up.
3. After you have formally split, stay on as good terms with your ex as you can. If you feel angry, take a step back- didn't you do some horrible things to them too? They were once a big part of your life - and eventually you'll only remember the good times.

Mike, High Wycombe, UK

Can someone please tell me what percentage of Sir Paul's money £55 million would be? I make it about .0000137% Have i got that right?

Denise B, Oldbury, Uk

Heather is an embarrassment to all women! Linda I could see asking and receiving a large amount for she did help Paul get where he is today. But Heather only contributed a fraction into Paul's life. She had that baby for leverage. I pray the judge gives her a fraction of what she wants!

Kitty, Cedartown, GA

Stick it to him Heather. You deserve More. You are entitled to half of his assets, plus more for raising your daughter. His offer is paltry and shows nothing but greed on his part.

Wayne Zinter, Tacoma, Washington, USA

How can a Beatle be so dumb? Pre-nup next time?

Boris de Entwhistle, Bristol,

In the U.S. Paul is tops, Mills is bottoms. She should get nothing at all and that would be justice. She lived large at his expense for years and wants to profit from a biography as well. The man is the victim here and he should be given justice over this grasping woe-man.

Barry, Ft. Worth, TX

I fell terrible for Paul Mc Cartney. I know to have been in the public eye so long yet be thought of so well is a rare fact in celebrity. She will go down was a reviled nobody. How she can show her face in public is a question. She seems so small as a person.

Sean Donahue, Killeen, Texas

a person who represents themself in court has a fool for a client.

walt, dunn, north carolina/usa

The child deserves money to live in a manner that her father 's money would allow. Heather deserves very little. The gazillion dollars was earned by him, on his own and as a BEATLE. It was earned way before she came on the scene, so she contributed nothing to those earnings. Does she deserve something for giving him some years of happiness? or another child? No, she got into the realtionship for love.

Jean, Bayside, New York

Heather is entitled to half of everything Paul earned during the four years they were married, and of course generous child support for their daughter. She has been teated unfairly by the press and by Paul, whose ego is much too large to ever allow him to admit even partial fault in the breakdown of their marriage! I hope she gets 100 million pounds!

Marliyn, cincinnati, USA/ohio

the law is the law & what their law says will determine what she receives. To those who rant & rave , well , you are not versed in the legalities, just the paper or tv reports which are not usually correct.

When a lawyer says you should get $10 or $20 or $30 then that is what you should get. What is fair or proper or seems to be proper may not be.

Divorces occur every day and some settle, some battle...unfortunately that is the nature of the divorce beast!

jb, san diego, California

This trial highlights the absurdity of divorce laws in the UK and probably everywhere.

Guys get fleeced in divorce. The principle doesnt seem complex - what did she contribute to the wealth during the marriage? What has she lost as a result of the failed marriage, i.e. due compensation? The answers to these questions should ensure there is a fair split upon divorce. Of course adequate provision for any children should be part of it.

She has been offered more than she contributed plus more than she has lost. The childcare is adequate and fair. But the law allows her to go after as much as she wants. In the mean time laywers get rich off the back of vague laws that allow gold diggers to grab as much as they can. I wonder why no one wants to make the law clearer?

Its about time the law was changed. It encourages gold diggers, greed or vindictiveness.

Jack Sprat, Bristol, UK

I don't understand why he is being so mean towards her.
Simon R. Gladdish, Swansea , Wales

Because she wants money that she has not earned. He did. She wants the product of labour that she did not expend. If she wants £10m, £50m or whatever, she needs to get off her broomstick and earn it.

What part of this do you not understand?

Laura Roberts, London, UK

Jesus, lady, take your money and get the hell outta Dodge!

You would NEVER have had access to this kind of wealth had he not married you.

Shame on your for your greed.

You will melt away like the bad witch once this is over.

I am ashamed on behalf of womankind everywhere.

Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen, Kansas City, MO USA

A blonde model is just a blonde model... even with one leg. Fools beware!

Kevin, Reynoldsburg, Ohio

You know what I want
You know what I n-n-n-need
Or maybe you don't
Do I have to come right
Flat out and tell you everything?
Gimme some money
Gimme some money

I'm nobody's fool
I'm nobody's clown
I'm treating you cool
I'm putting you down
But baby I don't intend to leave empty handed
Gimme some money
Gimme some money

Jack, Pittsburgh, PA

but he made her drive a pt cruiser!!! a pt cruisaaahhh!!!

h, ferndale, mi

The judge should give her the minimum amount possible. Or grant Sir Paul primary custody of the kid and give her jack nothing. She was offered 55 million and turned it down! Agree with the rest, plain old greed.

CJ, Atlanta, GA

I am one hundred per cent behind Heather on this and hope that she ends up with half of Macca's fortune which can be conservatively estimated at around a billion quid. Sir Paul is in his mid-sixties and doesn't need the money. I don't understand why he is being so mean towards her.

Simon R. Gladdish, Swansea , Wales

Heather will you marry me.

Louie, Baltimore, MD

And so it goes on. Drama ala Princess Di. Get weepy in front of cameras. Play the victime card. Females are great at that. Princess Di, Hillary Clinton(when she was losing) are nothing more than weak women who don't get their way so they turn on the water taps.

Naomi, Lodi, USA

The real shame is that these prenuptual agreements should be in place to begin with. That way, no woman would be able to bilk any man in the end and vice-versa. If there were a divorce law and a marriage law put in place by the powers that be (the government) then no one could make a business out of "gold-digging"! When you get married, all you have is what you brought into it. If a person wants a divorce, that is all they should get. You take what you came with and you get out. The only thing Heather is entitled to is her freedom. Unless she wrote a song or something else worthwhile, she did nothing but have a baby. My friend Paulie has offered to pay for that mistake very generously!! This woman obviously intended to end up in court this way to begin with!!!
Her claim to fame was marrying Paulie. I think she owes HIM for her celebrity now! haha! I laud my friend for being worthy of his title. He shows how genteel he is by his silence and his generous offer for Bea and her future.

Lawrence Mark, Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA

Mr. McCartney has a moral obligation to the rest of us to ensure that his soon to be ex wife stays out of the media in future. Everytime she opens her mouth nothing but rubbish spews forth and that appears to have been the case long before their marriage. No fool like an old fool....

Helen, Vancouver,

Hi Heather I tried to warn you?

They will eat you alive Male Judges are not impartial nor are child court welfare.

If you don't get what you want don't start complaining. You would have got more if you had accepted a settlement.

I know been there got the t.shirt.

Fiona McCormick, Limassol, Cyprus

She wants to be "famous" but instead will be infamous.

Wait 'til she "walks" on to the talk shows and gets BOO'd. She has to know she is despised...

I don't believe all the money in the world will cure whats wrong with her.

Everi, Phoenix, AZ

You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl. My fear is that her daughter is at risk because of her hateful nature and spitefulness.

genny, Pittsburgh, USA

Give me a break...whatever has gone on or not gone on in this marraige, HM has been married to this man for a relatively short time and as such should be jumping for joy at the proposed £55 million package! Someone mentioned above about no fair play, this is obviously not about "fair play", its ALL about Greed! Base, ugly Greed! HM, get over yourself already, take the £55 million and get a life!

coco, TEXAS, USA

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm mm mm mm mm.

Eh Sir Paul?

S K LIn, Hong Kong, China

Hey Tom in AZ - I don't think anyone would describe Heather M as 'hapless' - AND it's her decision to put herSELF up against PM, not the other way round. Golddigger. Leave it alone. She's trying to play the clever victim (abit like Princess Di - oops), & now I think pride isn't doing any favours - she's getting carried away. Four years & a bad character judgment on his part doesn't entitle her to HIS fortune - he earned it - she should get away from it & be grateful that she's being offered something (& of course multiple millions are considerably more than the average benefit) & more than she came into the arrangement with!! ...although, the gagging order is questionable...

Sindy M, London,

My best wishes to Sir Paul. A shame the Queen could not make him a Prince.

Steve, Holland, Michigan/USA

Mills is a disgrace. Not even sure she should have custody of Beatrice. Maybe Paul and his family should raise her - her goldigger of a mother will only mess her up. Revelations at the weekend show Mills to be greedy, grasping and ruthless - her machinations should not be permitted in court.

JS, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex, England

At the very least she should no longer be "Lady" because she is not at all a lady.

Liz, Mission, KS, USA

Shame for Sir Paul that in this case Sharia Law is not applicable.

Frank, Derby, England

HM should take what she has been offered. I am no fan of Sir Paul but she is a jumped up ex -something who in reality should personally get nothing. Just look after the daughter

Buster, Birmingham,

How can anyone talk about lack of fair play!!! This Lady has had the very best legal representation and advice from more than one of the top top firms in the UK. She is alone in this because she refuses to take their advice, HER DECISION not something which was forced on her.

Peter Nicholas, Guildford, UK

Hmm, it doesn't quite strike me as "cricket" to put this unbelievably rich and famous old man, an unapologetic apple polisher and a ruthless guy in the clinches, up against some relatively hapless young woman who made the mistake of having his kids, then to cheer HIM on. Methinks fair play in Britain went out the window a long time ago if it ever existed.

Tom, Lake Havasu City, AZ,

After her outburst and weepy winge on GMTV - is she going to behave in a similar way in court ? if she was acting then - she is not to be trusted and if she wasnt then she is foolish to represent herself. In future years her daughter will not thank her for her behavoir - either way she is the loser. The daughter is the important person in this case and there is no doubt Paul will provide for her. Take the offer Heather and run (or limp !)

David, Maidenhead,

Heaher Mills seems to thrive on the oxygen of publicity, good or bad. I am so sorry for her child who is being put through this nightmare for a pound of flesh.

Take your money, Heather and go to a quiet place and let your child have some normality. Fat chance.

leila, manchester, uk

Love the first comment. Stay that 67 years young that you are, Peter. I should only hope to have such an optimistic outlook at your age. Cheers.

Buck Cronkite, Los Angeles, California

Sincere good luck Paul. Having just been walked out on 3 times in our 44 year marriage, and now divorced, I can feel the emotions you are going through. Money isn't everything even though one works all their life for it. Mine was a paltry £94,000 settlement but that's a lot out of £104,000 savings.
Now I have another 18 years of mortgage at age 67 but have a wonderful new bride of 27. You will bounce back whatever the outcome. Again best wishes and good fortune.

Lingos

Peter, Immingham, UK

She does have a leg to stand on.

Jim Busch, Loretto, MN, USA, MN

This is why men should think with their upper body.

Carrie, Chelsea, USA

one must ask Sir Paul....were those brief moments of passion and affection worth it? I'd bet he would say, "not".

David, portland,

She doesn't have a leg to stand on...

Mr. Firpo, Cypress, CA

she doesn't have a leg to stand on.

jerry, boston, usa

It seems that Heather has finally snapped. McCartney's lawyers are going to eat her alive. And to think, she could have settled by now for more money than she ever dreamed of and saved herself, as well as her children, so much heartache. Don't be surprised if in the future her kids end up resenting her decision to represent herself in this matter.

Scott Warren, Tucson, Arizona

She who acts as her own attorney has a fool for a client

Bruce L. Northwood, Washington, D.C., USA

This is why men should not get married.

Bob Starkwoode, Miami, USA

narcissitic personality disorder?

m snyder, Reno, NV/ US

Methinks Ms. Mills protested too loudly a number of months back when she passionately decried being referred to as a "golddigger." Actions speak much louder than words! She has turned out to be everything negative that everyone has called her.

Doreen, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

This woman is insane.

gb, Austin, USA

Greed, greed, greed. GimME, gimME, gimME.
JD

JD, EGreenwich, RI

Just move on Heather..................be happy with the offer and think of your daughter..................

Miriam Jakubowitz, Philadelphia, USA