Lucy Stewart Gould is a divorce lawyer in London. She handles cases involving high net worth

individuals, people with tens of millions of British pounds at stake. She recently worked on a case

that ended up in the Supreme Court in the UK over how to fairly divvy up a huge fortune.

It took years to resolve, years, which kind of boggles my mind.

Like, how could there not have been a number where it was just like, let's just live with 28 million

pounds and get on with our lives? Maybe this is why you and I don't have 130 million in the bank.

Yeah, good point. Good point. There's a causal relationship there.

It's that kind of attitude that's getting us nowhere. But of course, money is not the only thing

divorcing couple squabble over. Oh, I had a case once years ago. And actually, it was very

consensual. We never had to go to court. It was tens of millions of pounds. So, you know, there wasn't nothing to talk about, but we kind of sorted out all the money. And then at the very end, we couldn't get the deal over the line because we couldn't decide who was going to keep the cat. And it wasn't that they both wanted to keep the cat. It was that neither of them wanted the cat. And I said, you know what, please, we're talking tens of millions of pounds.

Can't we find a home for this cat?

I'm like, I will take your cat.

Can we just sign the deal?

We got it done in the end.

So who ended up with the cat?

My client did the magnanimous thing and took the cat.

I'm Dan Heath, and this is what it's like to be.

In every episode, we walk in the shoes of someone from a different profession,

a hair stylist, a forensic accountant, an Olympic bobsledder.

We want to know what they do all day at work.

Today, we'll ask Lucy Stewart Gould what it's like to be a divorce lawyer.

We'll talk about why it matters where you file for divorce,

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