<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by amanuensis:
The reporter also observed that "in the United States" frequent flyer miles have become the subject of divorce proceedings. So, in the more civil Britain, this has never yet occurred? </font>
Not so far as I'm aware.
There have been posts in FlyerTalk about spouses inheriting their partners' miles on death. This is also unknown in Europe, and some (most?) European schemes specifically exclude the possibility. I know of a UK colleague whose widow was able to use his CO miles but had to use them within a year, but I doubt whether she could have done that with a Europe-based scheme. But of course, we are learning all the time from our North American cousins
so perhaps this will change.