Parenting plans can look quite organized on paper: alternating weekends, divided school holidays, agreed transportation arrangements, everything neatly accounted for. Then your child starts school, joins volleyball, discovers marching band, or signs up for an activity that somehow requires the entire family to be awake before sunrise.
Brittney Griner has filed for divorce from her wife, Cherelle Griner, after eight years of marriage. That alone is unremarkable news. What makes it interesting is the fact that Cherelle is a practicing attorney and the same person who spent ten months as the country's most visible advocate for Brittney's release from Russian detention in 2022. Somebody in this marriage knows exactly how the legal system works, and it isn't Brittney.
Abby Elliott, best known for playing Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto on The Bear, filed for divorce from Bill Kennedy this July. Her case is playing out in California, not here in Washington, but the "who files first" question is the same one we get asked constantly.
Your spouse says they are running to the store for milk. You nod, return to whatever you were doing, and make the reasonable assumption that they will come back with milk.
Several hours pass and the refrigerator remains dairy-free. Then you receive a message explaining that your spouse has moved out, hired an attorney, and would prefer to communicate by email.
Jack White married his wife onstage, mid-song, in front of his own mother. Four years later, the White Stripes rocker is being sued for something called “inappropriate marital conduct” in a Nashville courtroom.
If there's a lesson in there about grand romantic gestures, we haven't found it yet.
When actor Frankie Muniz and his wife Paige Price Muniz announced their divorce with a cheerful dancing video on social media, the internet collectively tilted its head like a confused Labrador. The message was clear: they planned to remain friends and committed co-parents.
Celebrity divorces usually follow a familiar script, one that involves someone unfollowing someone, a flurry of anonymous sources, a small army of newly busy lawyers, and social media picking a side.
Then there's country singer Jelly Roll and his ex-wife Bunnie Xo, who appear to have skipped the script entirely.
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.