“’Til death do us part?” What does that even mean anymore? For couples who have experienced divorce, they know that it takes more than a promise to be able to stick it out until the end. All marriages go through different tests and challenges. Some couples weather the storms, while some don’t make it out of the woods.
Just as weddings can be grand affairs, so can divorces be as messy as train wrecks. When these are highly publicized, we can’t seem to look away. Sometimes, however, people have the strangest reasons for breaking up their marriages — and our curiosity about them gets the better of us the same way train wrecks do.
Newsflash: Robert Downey, Jr. did not do any of his own flying as Iron Man in the Avengers movies. He was aided by stuntmen and computers. Actually, none of the actors — male or female — in any action movie do their own flying. They do recite their lines using their own voices, though.
Us regular folk tend to take the concept of “reputation” for granted, but for celebrities who rely on their image for bankability, “reputation” is worth the trouble of going to court. However, sometimes it feels that stars take it a little too far.
Kramer vs. Kramer is a heartwarming drama about the pains of divorce and child custody. It’s a moving portrayal of how ex-spouses Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and Joanna (Meryl Streep) went from estranged exes to sworn enemies to allies. What many divorcees will find particularly relatable is Ted’s sheer ineptness at making French toast on the first morning of Joanna’s “desertion.
Though we might not readily think of them as such, prosthetic limbs can indeed be used as weapons. After all, a weapon is anything used or intended for use in causing death or injury to persons, whether it is designed for that purpose or not. Popular culture features many characters who have weaponized prostheses.
It’s not unusual for separating couples to fight over custody, dispute marital assets, or claim alimony during or after a divorce. It’s par for the course. As family law attorneys, we know better than to underestimate the capacity of some divorcees to take their separation into a strange direction.
For some couples, “till death do us part” is a promise they can’t keep, and that parting is not such sweet sorrow after all. In fact, it can be so bitter that even the splitting up of assets is an exercise in hurting one another. Here are some bizarre cases of divorcees staking their fair share of their once-conjugal properties.
After finalizing their divorce, Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos are still two of the most insanely rich individuals in the world. That’s unsurprising, considering Jeff held 16.3% of Amazon shares — which, trust us, is a humongous amount of money — at the time of their separation.
Stepping in dog poop is embarrassing, though a simple rinse and a good laugh at oneself are sufficient remedies for the incident. However, slipping on it and hurting yourself is no laughing matter.
In fact, if you were on somebody else’s commercial property, slipped on animal pee or poop, and consequently suffered a painful sprain, bone fracture, or head injury, you have every right to sue the owner of the property, given that the latter:
Caused the surface to become slippery (i.e., the owner did not clean up after their pet);
Knew the floor was.