As goes England, so too, inevitably, goes the colonies...

Via Newkerala.com:

Brit women keeping a private eye on their groom’s credentials:

New Kerala
April 3, 2006

Wealthy professional women have become increasingly apprehensive of the financial consequences of divorce and are making greater efforts to find out their financial status before tying the knot.

The Independent in a report said that though the main purpose of such surveillance was to check the financial credentials of the suitors, women sometimes also mounted observation to check the men’s antecedents and behaviour on a night out...

Nearly 20 percent of the couples in the survey had used a private investigator, and a staggering 86 percent of the divorces brought against men were because of adultery, it said.

More here.

-- MDT