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.
When a celebrity divorce is declared “settled,” the headlines tend to land with the satisfying snap of a closing briefcase. But family law, unlike gossip columns, rarely works in neat finales.
The divorce of David Geffen and his much younger estranged husband, David Armstrong (also known as Donovan Michaels), offers the perfect reminder that a settlement is often less the ending than the beginning of a new legal and personal chapter.
If family law had a category called “things we wish were obviously not lawsuits,” the following case would be near the top.
A recent televised courtroom case (that was also posted on YouTube) featured a father suing his son for $6,000 after the young man left a conversion therapy program the father had paid for.
Divorce doesn’t just divide homes, finances, and schedules. It quietly divides closets, too. Somewhere between splitting assets and signing paperwork, you find yourself staring at a wardrobe that suddenly stirs emotions because it’s filled with clothes that remind you of your former marriage, whether it be the dress from your anniversary trip or the suit your ex loved.