What is the impact of a long-term marriage on the wife’s career prospects?

It is hard to see how the marriage could have disadvantaged the wife’s career. She chose not to work. Further, the parties equalized their net family properties, the wife received a lump sum payment in full settlement of her compensatory support claim, and the husband paid 100 percent of the children’s support. The separation was 32 years ago and, not including interim spousal support (on which I have no evidence), the husband paid support per the Divorce Judgment for 24 years following what was a medium-length (see paragraph 7.6.2 of the SSAGs and Fisher v. Fisher at paragraph 105) marriage. In my view, and in light of the further comments below, the economic disadvantages to the wife arising from the marriage have been adequately addressed. If the wife has any economic disadvantages now they no longer arise from the marriage or its breakdown, but rather from her decision to spurn a career or career options, which is an extraneous cause.