This week, The Wall Street Journal’s Susan Gregory Thomas examines today’s “divorce generation.” She seeks to explain how her fellow Generation X peers, born between 1965 and 1980, have been affected by the divorces of their parents. Thomas, whose parents divorced when she was 12 years old, told her husband throughout her marriage, “Whatever happens, […]
Olivia Wilde divorced from her husband Tao Ruspoli after eight years of marriage, though they are still on good terms. She married the Italian prince when she was just 18. She recently explained to Marie Claire the reason for their elopement and eventual split: “Our deal from the beginning was, ‘We’re crazy to do this, […]
Amongst recent news over same-sex marriage and divorce law, a same-sex California filed an appeal to the Supreme Court this week to intervene in their adoption dispute. The 5-year-old boy was born in Louisiana, a state that does not allow two men as adoptive parents. The couple adopted the boy when he was a year […]
While more and more women are entering the work force, social pressure on men to be breadwinners is still strong. New research shows how much that cliché has changed for women but stayed the same for men. This is because once upon a time, “women didn’t work and that appeared to be the equation for […]
Today, Fran Drescher is learning how to adjust to life as a single woman in today’s dating world, much like her role in the new sitcom “Happily Divorced.” In 1999, after 21 years of marriage, her former spouse revealed to her that he was gay. She admits their divorce wasn’t amicable. In facts “it took […]
Beginning July 24th, New York’s gay couples started pushing the glamour factors as they raced to the altar to finally legally wed. Ceremonies are “booked from the Four Seasons to Gracie Mansion, where the mayor himself will officiate at the wedding of two aides.” In 2004, Massachusetts set the way for this trend’s latest economic […]
34 years ago, Frances Ragusa, 75, and her former husband, Phillip, 77, split in a bitter divorce after 17 years of marriage. Frances is now suing her husband, accusing him for not paying child support. The original settlement in December 1977 called for him to pay $14,393.57 in child support, an amount that, with interest, […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and actor gets to keep the family house as part of the divorce agreement. Maria Shriver, Arnie’s former spouse, has already agreed to buy “a Brentwood home for 10 million pounds.” According to TMZ.com, “the former governor and the TV newswoman had no prenuptial agreement when they tied the knot […]
Frances Ragusa, 75, is finally in the last round of her 34-year divorce settlement battle with her 77-year old former spouse, Philip. There is an estimated $100,000 in unpaid child support that she will more likely than not be rewarded. This amount is the result of 30 years of interest that “ballooned from the $14,393.57 […]
Last Thursday in a 5-2 ruling, The New York Court of Appeals decided that in an instance where money was earned fraudulently, an innocent spouse could keep their money after the divorce rather than having to make restitution. The case centered on Stephen Walsh and Janet Schaberg, who were married for 25 years before settling […]
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