Category Archives: Divorced and Widowed
Some troubles we will never have. “Right-Wing Publisher’s Breakup Is Super-Rich In Tawdry Details” As part of a temporary settlement, 60-year-old Ritchie Scaife is currently cashing an alimony check that at first glance will look like a typo: $725,000 a month. Or about $24,000 a day, seven days a week. As Richard Scaife’s exasperated lawyers [...]
The real snoops are close to home, gathering electronic evidence. Of course, if you’re not cheating, you don’t have to worry. The age-old business of breaking up has taken a decidedly Orwellian turn, with digital evidence like e-mail messages, traces of Web site visits and mobile telephone records now permeating many contentious divorce cases. Spurned [...]
The New York Times explores the phenomenon of real estate enabled divorce in Buy low, divorce high whereby unhappily married couples are cashing in appreciated homes to underwrite a split. “She felt that she couldn’t walk out on him until she had the money to move away and buy something on her own,” Ms. Kleier [...]
WHAT COULD BE more natural than a mother down on the rec-room floor, playing with her 3-year-old amid puzzles, finger-puppets, and Thomas the Tank Engine trains? Look — now she’s conducting a conversation between a stuffed shark and Nemo, the Pixar clown fish! Giggles all around. Not to mention that the tot is learning the [...]
Don’t you love it when economists start putting numbers on intangibles?
Ex-wife becomes a man; ex-husband seeks to end alimony. I’m betting the ex-wife will win.
Unhappily married, they were getting a divorce, but couldn’t agree on how to split up their property which included a summer house…. Man chainsaws house in two and makes off with his half in a forklift truck.
The design is simple: a thick gold band with a break in the center and three bands of white gold on one side. One band for the year you met your ex. One band for the year you married.
When you read Bernando, your heart will break for him . via Sheila O’Malley.
The first of the same-sex marriages in Massachusetts is breaking up. Julie and Hilary Goodridge were together for 2 decades before marrying officially in the Bay State.
