Q: My husband was married previously, and through his divorce he agreed that his ex-wife could keep their former house. The divorce decree ordered her to make the mortgage payments and required her to refinance the home to take my husband's name off the mortgage. However, she did neither or made her payments late. She [...]
A top investment banker and her stay-at-home husband are locked in an £11m divorce battle, after an argument on a family holiday ended their marriage. House husband, Weng Choy, filed for divorce from his "breadwinner" wife, Lena Tan, in January 2012, after a row days earlier on New Year's Eve, whilst on a family holiday [...]
Major life events are often the catalyst for equally sizable financial decisions, so most advisors are well versed in what it takes to help their wealthy clients prepare for and manage key milestones. Some events, however, happen without warning, such as death or divorce. Unwelcomed circumstances such as these require a special approach. Late last [...]
Matrimonial Survey 2013 Our 10th annual matrimonial survey of UK family lawyers looks at current trends in family law – and reveals the who, why and how much of UK divorce. Since the inception of Grant Thornton’s matrimonial survey 10 years ago, the landscape of family law has changed considerably, with shifting family dynamics [...]
Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews' plan to equip couples with $200 vouchers for counselling could drive the national divorce rate down, Relationships Australia says. The government's $20 million, 12-month trial will start on July 1. It is the brainchild of Mr Andrews, who has said he wants to ''help couples achieve a greater degree of [...]
Dealing with Divorce Renee Bauer has served as a family law practitioner for 10 years supporting struggling couples with the process of divorce. The local resident said that with so much inaccurate material available about the subject, she thought it would be fitting to combine her knowledge of the business and her passion [...]
A new study found that divorce rates are significantly higher in conservative states, and lower in liberal ones—and that religion is the main factor of the difference. “Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding Regional Variation in Divorce Rates,” due for publication in the American Journal of Sociology, found that that conservative Alabama and Arkansas have close [...]
The Sharks and the Jets have nothing on these exes. Hot-shot Broadway producer Tony Ponturo’s “Bronx Bombers” opens Feb. 6, but ex-wife Ruthe isn’t pining away for him from the Upper East Side duplex they once shared. She has a show of her own, “Til Divorce Do Us Part,” which begins previews the very next [...]
Missouri couples that have been through a divorce can attest to the challenging nature of the process. From the emotional turmoil of the end of a marriage and dreams to the pains of losing time with one's children, the difficulties are many. Identifying marital and separate property and the ensuing division of marital property is [...]
Father of four Ken Sullivan, who lives in Utah, applied to live on Mars without asking his wife He is among 1,058 people who have been selected to go through to the next round of the Mars One project, which is set to colonise the Red Planet His children say they will miss their father [...]