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The New York State legislature have finally passed a bill that will soon put into effect a new long-awaited law permitting no-fault divorce in New York State.  The New York Times, amongst others, eagerly reported the breaking news yesterday.

As a New York divorce law firm, we have seen the many problems that New York not permitting no-fault divorce has caused.  Keeping spouses imprisoned in unhappy marriages.  Encouraging people to perjur themselves so that they could obtain relief from a broken marriage.

I was contacted by a potential client today who had an all too familiar sob story.  His “wife” had hired someone in Mexico to do a fast Mexican divorce.  She was given final papers.  She got remarried.

Years later her supposedly ex-husband wants to get remarried and to make a long story short, the Mexican Consulate informed them that the divorce was not valid.  They had been scammed.

Now I have to explain to this poor gentleman on the phone that he is not actually married.  His marriage is void as per public policy, which is a fancy way of saying that he isn’t married.

The New York Times recently released an op-ed articles discussing Sandra Bullock’s divorce from Jesse James.  The author used Sandra Bullock’s divorce from her adulterous husband and her recent Academy Award for Best Actress to pose a philosophical question about happiness.  I personally thought the article was in bad taste.

Sandra Bullock is obviously going through a very challenging personal time and she is very emotionally vulnerable.  Catching your husband cheating on you is an extremely painful shock.

More recent news reports recount Jesse James fleeing a sex addiction rehab center, Sierra Tuscon, after Bullock refused his phone call.  Allegedly he wants to save the marriage, but Bullock has decided to call it quits.

Mel Gibson did not have a pre-nuptial agreement.  Costly mistake Mel.

Mel Gibson and his soon-to-be-ex Australian wife, Robyn Moore, are selling their Malibu family mansion for $16 million dollars as their divorce enters its final phases.  Gibson has been forced to carve up his estate and assets throughout his long-standing divorce proceedings.

Gibson’s divorce could have been a lot faster, cheaper and less painful for his family had he and Robyn had the foresight to enter into a pre-nuptial agreement before taking the plunge to get married.

According to news sources, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren have called off their divorce after Elin visited him at what has been called “sex rehab.”  Many eyebrows have been raised…

Our law firm actually has researched sex addiction after many people had come to us with this problem.  After much research, I can confirm that sex addiction is a real disease similar to alcoholism or drug addiction.  It is an ever increasing problem with the advent the over-sexualized media and advertising, online pornography, as well as internet chat and hookup sites.  Technology has made adultery all the more accessible.  Not everyone who has an affair is a sex addict, yet many may be.

The press just released the story that John and Elizabeth Edwards have legally separated, after their marriage had been under the media microscope during the last two Presidential campaigns.

Mr. Edwards admitted last week, after a long cover up, that he fathered a child in 2007 with another woman, Rielle Hunter, outside his marriage.  The child will be turning 2 years old next month. He had previously fervently denied the accusation, especially when accusations arose during his Presidential campaigns.

The legal separation came as a result of Mrs. Edwards discovering the truth regarding Mr. Edwards and Ms. Hunter.