Shocked woman finds out she owns 15 properties

Libby-Jane Charleston
3 min readDec 25, 2020

Joanne had lived decades of frugality. But when she filed for divorce she was shocked to learn just how rich she was.

Joanne never knew about the property portfolio her husband had built, while he constantly made her cut basic costs. (Image is generic, not part of the portfolio).Source:Supplied

WHEN 63-year-old Joanne* decided to leave her marriage, she visited a lawyer so she could understand what percentage of the couple’s assets would belong to her, post-divorce.

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Libby-Jane Charleston

Journalist, ex-ABC TV, HuffPost AU Assoc Editor, ABC TV, author, poet, mother of 3 boys, cancer Survivor, history lover