Author Archive for: David Centeno

About David Centeno

David Centeno is a New York divorce lawyer with offices throughout New York State. Handling both uncontested and contested divorces for hundreds of clients through the years has given him the hard-earned experience needed to blog on topics relevant to New York divorce. He offers free consultations. Call (866) 830-2064.

Entries by David Centeno

Let’s Start a New Trend: The Divorce Registry

I decided this weekend, as I thought about the fact that after being divorced for nigh on three years I still don’t have a vacuum cleaner, that it was time for me to start a new trend: the divorce registry. A divorce registry is a lot like a bridal registry, except instead of reigistering for […]

Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Reconciliation Effort Hits a Cold Patch

Just two months after Kobe Bryant and his estranged wife Vanessa shared a Valentine’s Day kiss (below) — fueling hopes of a reconciliation — the two hit up the L.A. Kings playoff game with their daughters … as “really good friends.” Sources close to Kobe tell TMZ … the divorce is still on … but Kobe is adamant the two are “really […]

Dooce Divorce: Heather Armstrong Reveals Why She Blogged About Split (VIDEO)

Heather B. Armstrong, whose “mommy blog” Dooce.com garners nearly 100,000 readers a day, stopped by the “Today” show Monday to discuss why she decided to blog about her recent separation from her husband after almost a decade of marriage. “I thought I had to talk about it because I felt inauthentic not revealing what was going on,” Armstrong said. “I’ve been so […]

Cohabitation-Divorce Link? I Don’t Think So

linical psychologist Meg Jay penned an editorial published in Saturday’s New York Times entitled “The Downside of Cohabitation Before Marriage,” in which she writes that cohabiting largely leads to future unhappiness, including divorce. “Couples who cohabit before marriage (and especially before an engagement or an otherwise clear commitment) tend to be less satisfied with their marriages — and more […]

Women, Divorce And Misleading Statistics

Feminists like to point to statistics that supposedly show that divorced women experience a fall in their standard of living as proof that wives are reluctantly initiating divorces to get out of marriages to ill-behaving husbands. There are two problems with this highly misleading statistic (assuming the stat is true in the sense it is […]

Your life: Divorce requires special care for children

When I was a small child, I only had one friend whose parents were divorced. Today, having divorced parents is normal, yet few parents know how to help their children when the decision is made to end their marriage. Suggestions for taking care of the children: • Tell them about the divorce together. Emphasize the divorce […]

Messy divorce: Court tells ‘wronged’ Russian woman to approach embassy in Islamabad

The Peshawar High Court has directed a Russian woman, implicated in a theft case by her estranged Pakistani husband, to approach the Russian embassy in Islamabad in order to return to her country. Christina Petrochinkova, who was renamed Parveen after she embraced Islam, married Charsadda resident Ikramullah in Thailand in 2005. On April 13, 2005, Ikramullah […]