Stuck for Christmas gift ideas? Divorce vouchers selling like hotcakes in London

[The Straight Story]

Divorce vouchers selling like hotcakes in London
December 20, 2009, 3:37pm

LONDON (Reuters) – Stuck for Christmas gift ideas? Is your marriage or a friend’s going through a rocky patch? How about a divorce voucher?

In an unusual take on the season of giving, a London law firm is offering Christmas gift vouchers for divorce advice.

The firm, Lloyd Platt & Company, which normally charges 325 pounds ($530) an hour, said it had been swamped with enquiries since it launched the vouchers early last week.

So far, more than 60 have been sold — a snip at 125 pounds for a half hour session with a divorce lawyer.

The firm’s founder, Vanessa Lloyd Platt, said she had been amazed at the response to the vouchers. “They seem to appeal to an enormously widespread spectrum of people looking for that ‘must have’ gift for Christmas,” she said.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/234922/out-of-this-world-divorce-vouchers-selling-hotcakes-london