The phrase "an expensive divorce" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the financial implications or costs associated with a divorce.
Example: "After years of marriage, they decided to part ways, but it turned out to be an expensive divorce that left them both financially strained."
Alternatives: "a costly divorce" or "a high-priced divorce."
(And, friends say, on an expensive divorce).
I'm going through an expensive divorce.
I had just endured an expensive divorce in the courts, engaging John Mortimer as QC.
No one seemed greatly moved by the information that Young Winston was on the brink of an expensive divorce, or that he was a badly bruised Lloyds Namee.
The two separated shortly afterward, in January 1995, and then engaged in an expensive divorce battle that ended in her placing business ownership over cash.
He experienced a sharp drop in his income, went through an expensive divorce soon after and suffered big investment reversals during the 2008 financial crisis.
Though Mr. Duvalier has long been accused of looting $300 million from Haiti before fleeing nearly 25 years ago, his lawyers and friends have said that much of his money was squandered on a lavish lifestyle of jewelry, chateaus, fancy cars and a very expensive divorce from his ex-wife.
What's distracting him is his embroilment in a nasty, expensive divorce from his second wife, Lucie.
Ms. Rybolovleva is the daughter of a Russian billionaire in the fertilizer industry, Dmitry Rybolovlev, who is in the middle of a rather expensive divorce.
Perhaps most trickily, the financial cost of Christmas is obscene – even when exercising restraint – and post-separation, with a terrifyingly expensive divorce looming, I've had to budget very carefully, buying a couple of presents a week over several months.
Joel Sherman of The New York Post, for one, is predicting a very expensive divorce in the off-season, which everyone assumes will begin right after weather allows a Game 4. Others are less than swayed by the far-fetched rumors of the Marlins flirtation, like Joe Lemire of SI.com, and believe he'll be back giving Joe Girardi heartburn for seasons to come.
