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.
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.