In a recent 31-page decision resolving a thoroughly ugly divorce, a frustrated Canadian family-law judge said he had resorted to ridicule in a final effort to get through to the parties, though it may also have been an effort to keep…
I have heard of people celebrating after a divorce becomes final, but this is the first I've heard of a couple celebrating together their decision to split up. For the past year or so, an entrepreneur in Tokyo has been…
1. When marrying an additional wife, consider not having pictures taken at the ceremony. This can be expensive, and in your case, incriminating. 2. If you must have pictures taken, they should be displayed in a simple but tasteful frame, not, for…
I have to say that the only source I have for this item so far is the gossipy site RadarOnline.com, and so I need to make clear that these are only allegations, no matter how much I may hope they…
Seems like there is always some humor in store anytime an animal shows up in court. I guess there was that one time it didn't go so well: Even then, though, the chimpanzees were kind of funny. (It's those friggin orangutangs…
Actually, it's hard to think of a situation in which doing this would not create a conflict of interest, but if you represent a client in divorce proceedings even though you are the one his spouse has been cheating with, that…
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, formerly a partner with Vinson & Elkins and now a Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General, has pointed out the uncomfortable fact that a 2005 amendment to the state constitution, which was designed to ban gay marriage, may in fact…
"I do hereby resign," began the only sentence anybody was interested in hearing out of Keith Bardwell, who until November 3 had been Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Everybody has been calling for…
I think I have only seen one other story that I thought was funny although it involved domestic violence, and that one involved a woman beating a man with his own prosthetic leg. See "Man Beaten With Own Leg by…
Robert Drawbaugh has filed for divorce from his wife, saying that their marriage had "broken down irretrievably." A warning sign: police had to rescue him in March after she handcuffed them together and started biting him. Despite the difficult situation,…