Is there ever such a thing as an amicable divorce? I ask because a wealthy fashionista who won £32million in her divorce from her first husband has had her second husband jailed in a battle over their £40million marital assets.

One word; prenup.

Although desis don’t do prenups very well. We’ve just about wisened up to hiking up the amount of the ‘haq mehr’ at nikah time, just in case it all goes sour down the line.

Divorce has gradually increased in the UK over the last few decades with the Office for National Statistics reporting that there were 13 divorces an hour in England and Wales in 2012. Furthermore, the ONS have said that it is expected that 42per cent of marriages will end in divorce.

I have yet to encounter a couple whose separation does not entail blazing acrimony – Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s farcical ‘conscious uncoupling’ doesn’t count.

One friend dismally revealed that even after her separation, her husband popped round every evening to eat ‘saalan rotee’ (curry chapatti) with the ex-wife and kids, and would even drop off bags of laundry before returning to his own home with his girlfriend. Her diffidence? “I have no choice, he pays all my bills.”

Another friend disclosed that after their separation, her husband – a self-proclaimed prolific adulterer – tried his utmost to exert his conjugal rights with his wife on the grounds that until a talaq had been granted, he was still her husband and he was permitted to exercise his Islamic rights.

Religion at its most convenient, eh?

Divorce certainly brings to surface some of the more unpleasant human traits.

There was the furious ex-wife that took revenge on her husband for concealing his financial assets by doing the milk round with her husband’s exclusive wine collection and snipping his designer ties in half.

And then the warring Cambodian couple who literally divided their assets in half by sawing the house into two parts.

But the prize for the most bizarre divorce etiquette must go to the woman who cited her reasons for divorce as “My mother-in-law made me chop onions and forced me to wear a duppatta (scarf) around the house.”