Some people collect child support. Others collect missed calls, late-night voicemails, and an impressive amount of frustration. That is the dilemma behind a recent family law advice column in The Boston Herald, regarding a divorced mother and her ex, who calls at odd hours.
There’s something about Japan’s family law system that might surprise you: until very recently, divorced parents generally couldn’t share legal custody of their children. The option for joint custody only became available in 2026. That’s only this year.
At its core, divorce is a financial transaction wrapped in heartbreak. And as with most transactions where a lot of money is on the line, some people try to cheat. We’re not pessimists; we just happened to come across a case in China involving a woman whose husband lied about his assets.
There’s an old joke that marriage is the beginning of a beautiful partnership — and the end of making travel plans on your own. For one newlywed couple in India, that joke proved a little too close to reality and ended up turning into a legal crisis.
A snapshot of a Kenyan father’s payslip recently went viral because it revealed a devastating reality about how punishing child support payments can be in other parts of the world. It revealed that his remaining take-home pay, after child support deductions, was the equivalent of a whopping $100.
Suddenly, divorces in America, many of which typically involve fights about who gets to keep the La-Z-Boy, feel less catastrophic.
It began with curiosity. A married individual, living a perfectly ordinary life, decided to chat with an AI tool. A few months later, their marriage was over, their savings were gone, and their grip on reality had slipped somewhere between the 200th and the 201st prompts.
Single motherhood has somehow been reduced to a handful of stereotypes: the struggling mom, the supermom, or the cautionary tale. None of them tell the full story.
The Daily Star from Bangladesh recently profiled three single mothers with wildly different lives, legal realities, and survival strategies.
The following story broke out in Greece earlier this year and spread across international news.
A mother of two uploaded photos of the leftover grounds from her and her husband’s cups to ChatGPT. She was participating in an online trend that puts a tech-forward spin on tasseography, or the reading of fortunes from tea leaves or coffee sediment.
If divorce had a style icon, a survival guide, and a patron saint all rolled into one, it would be Nicole Kidman.
Few public figures have turned post-divorce reinvention into such an art form. One minute, the tabloids are feasting on her heartbreak. The next, she’s gliding down a red carpet in something sleek, collecting awards, headlining prestige dramas, and reminding the world that the end of a marriage is not the end of the story.
There’s a certain kind of legal headline that makes you blink twice and gasp in disbelief, such as one that Missouri just served.
Until recently, women in the state could find themselves in a surreal kind of marital limbo: pregnant but no longer in love with their spouse, ready to move forward legally, and yet still unable to finalize a divorce because a judge wanted the baby to arrive first.