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.
If you answered all three, you’re wrong.
These natural forces don’t have a mind of their own, but humans do. And humans who fail to clear snow and ice on their premises (entrances, exits, sidewalks, walkways, parking lots, etc.) that cause slip-and-fall accidents are, under certain circumstances, to be blamed.
While the best of marriages is what most couples dream of when they tie the knot, stories of nasty, drawn-out divorces ought to be considered as child abuse when you factor in how brutal custody battles can be on the children involved.
Lawyers are often depicted in popular media as heartless moneygrubbers, but we at Buckingham, LaGrandeur & Williams do have hearts that bleed and break for the youngsters who are caught in the middle of their parents’ fights.