‘Leaving Woods could be costly for wife’- Raoul Felder

The wife of Tiger Woods will miss out on more than $50m if she pursues an immediate divorce because of his string of affairs, top lawyers have told The Sunday Telegraph.
Raoul Felder, a celebrity divorce attorney, whose client list has included the former wives of Martin Scorsese and Tom Clancy, said Elin Nordegren would be ”financially ill-advised” to walk out on Woods for good.
Nordegren, 29, was widely reported last week to be ”100 per cent” set on a divorce and in line to receive more than $100m in one of sport‘s most expensive separations.
But Felder said if she divorced her husband now, she would be entitled under Florida law to only the sum agreed in the pre-nuptial agreement before the couple married in 2004 -- believed to be $20m. Woods, the world‘s No. 1 golfer, would also have to pay child support for their two-year-old daughter and baby son.
By contrast, her legal team started negotiating a lucrative post-nuptial deal just days after the sex scandal surrounding her husband erupted three weeks ago. Lawyers familiar with the talks said she could be paid up to an additional $55m to remain with Woods, 33, for two more years.
Nordegren has moved out of the family home near and is expected to fly to her homeland of Sweden with the children for Christmas.