article_snippet: Kathleen Wyatt has won the right to fight for a  payout from Kathleen Wyatt ex-husband  energy businessman Dale Vince, 20 years after they divorced .
article_snippet: Kathleen Wyatt current home is a former council house in Monmouth, south Wales, bought on a mortgage for £60,000 under right-to-buy laws.
article_snippet: In December 2012 a judge ordered the ex-husband to pay Ms Wyatt £125,000.
article_snippet: Yesterday, Appeal Court justices ruled in favour of Ms Wyatt and said Ms Wyatt claim should be heard by a judge in the Family Division of the High Court.
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt is demanding almost £2million.
article_snippet: Lord Wilson, speaking for Supreme Court justices, said that under 1973 divorce legislation the courts should have taken into account the years Ms Wyatt Ms Wyatt looked after the couple's son. '
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt was brought up by Ms Wyatt,' a judge said. '
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt struggled to do so.
article_snippet: Lord Wilson said the burden had fallen on Ms Wyatt and Ms Wyatt contribution had been unmatched by Mr Vince.
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt pictured with lawyer Barbara Reeves (right) after justices said the case could be heard .
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt Ms Wyatt is pictured leaving the Supreme Court today (left) after judges ruled Ms Wyatt application can be heard by the High Court and in  2003 (right) after the two New Age travellers had divorced .
article_snippet: Lord Wilson added: 'Unwisely, Ms Wyatt Ms Wyatt has pitched Ms Wyatt claim at £1.9million and it is obvious …
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt legal victory opens the way for divorcees to claim a pay-off from divorcees ex-spouse decades later.
article_snippet: – Lady Hale, Lord Clarke, Lord Wilson, Lord Hughes and Lord Hodge – said Appeal judges had been wrong to throw Ms WyattMs Wyatt's original case out on the basis
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt had no reasonable grounds, in 2013.
article_snippet: There was no recorded financial settlement from Ms Wyatt divorce. '
article_snippet: But there is … a real prospect that Ms Wyatt will secure a comparatively modest award, perhaps of a size which would enable Ms Wyatt to purchase a somewhat more comfortable mortgage-free home.'
article_snippet: Ms Wyatt's solicitor, Barbara Reeves of law firm Mishcon de Reya, said: 'Ms Wyatt looks forward to concluding the litigation as quickly as possible.'
article_snippet: Ms Reeves added that Mishcon would try to win a costs order against Mr Vince to cover Mishcon fees, which have so far swallowed up all but £2,539 of the £125,000 awarded to Ms Wyatt in the earlier court hearing.
highlights_snippet: Ms Wyatt lodged a claim for maintenance in 2011 from Ms Wyatt former husband .
  
highlights_snippet: But Court of Appeal ruled Ms Wyatt has a right to apply for cash payout .
  