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Boyhood is a remarkable, moving, and very long film about divorce. Children of divorce can relate to it, and divorcees think it’s made especially for them. It’s like a documentary about a broken family, but with incredibly good-looking actors.

We may not be giving legal advice in these pages, but we thought we’d give you some tips as to what movies get things right about divorce, child custody, child support payments, and the like.

Many consider grocery shopping therapeutic. In fact, there are studies that prove that “retail therapy” is more than just a fun catchphrase about burning cash on shopping sprees. Really, who needs a shrink when you can stroll along the biscuit and ice cream aisles in your neighborhood Target?

As with all forms of therapy, getting injured is not something one anticipates while “undergoing therapy.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Mackenzie Bezos are getting divorced. Foremost in everyone’s mind is, “Will Amazon.com still offer free shipping for purchases $25 and over?”.

Terrible jokes aside, this is devastating news for champions of love everlasting.

Divorce is a fact of modern life. It’s like birthdays but without the cake and the song.

In a divorce, spouses will be exchanging words far removed from the poetic language they used during their nuptials. Promises “to love and to cherish” and “to honor and sustain” are traded in for “marital dissolution,” “distribution of assets,” and “child support.

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet makes Apple an easy target for patent trolls — organizations that obtain rights to patents to earn money via licensing or litigation instead of producing their own products or services — or just about anyone looking to bite into its coffers.

For centuries, it was the husband who worked and earned money, while the wife took care of their home and their children. But when governments hired large numbers of women to work in munitions factories during World War I, the number of women who entered the workforce dramatically increased.

Animal cruelty — we abhor it. We can’t even stand the sight of animal death scenes in movies. However, we rein in our adoration for fur babies when we’re handling personal injury lawsuits involving dog bites for our clients in Renton.

The state of Washington is a “strict liability state,” which means owners are liable for their dogs’ bites whether or not they know that their dogs are dangerous prior to the biting incident.

Lawsuits like those filed by rapper 50 Cent against Taco Bell for suggesting he change his name to “99 Cent” as a marketing gimmick leave us in stitches. If those types of lawsuits serve any purpose, it is to amuse those who think that the legal system is broken.

Prenups get a bad rap, and pop culture is to blame. Movies like Liar Liar and Kanye West songs like “Gold Digger” will have you believe that prenups are merely a deterrent against those who only want to marry for money.

We’ll cut to the chase: Prenups are good.

Hershey’s, purveyor of some of the finest chocolates and candies, brings goodness to the world. The only times they don’t are when they’re fighting a lawsuit or filing one against an imitator. Some of these suits are pretty serious, while others involve the unauthorized use of a Las Vegas street entertainer’s image for a chocolate syrup ad.