California has long been at the vanguard of divorce law. In 1851, as a brand new state, it adopted comparatively broad grounds for divorce (e.g., adultery, extreme cruelty, habitual intemperance, desertion, failure to support, conviction of a felony), and was one of the first to enshrine community property rules. In 1969, under Governor Ronald…
“Starter marriage” – the term seems to have first shown up as one of the stylized footnotes in Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel Generation X. Then, a 1994 New York Times article by Deborah Schupack explored its meaning. In ‘Starter’ Marriages: So Early, So Brief, Schupack loosely defines them as “brief, early marriages that end…
Most of us have grown so accustomed to using various forms of artificial intelligence in daily life that we hardly think of it as AI anymore. Many common tools – text autocorrect, email “smart replies,” GPS maps, content suggestions in your social media feed, streaming platforms that list movies and music “just for you”…
“Truth,” as Lord Byron famously said, “is stranger than fiction” — and sometimes as disturbing as a gothic crime tale. An idea once known mostly as a 19th-century short story — “An Alpine Divorce” by Scottish-Canadian author Robert Barr — has gained sudden social media attention for its apparent real-life version. In the story,…
Page Six recently broke the news that actor Shia LaBeouf and his wife, actress Mia Goth, had quietly parted ways a year ago. The pair, who met on the set of Nymphomaniac: Vol II, married in 2016. Since then, they’ve had their share of ups and downs as a couple. They separated and filed…
There’s no point in sugarcoating it: divorce is one of the hardest and most painful things a person can go through — emotionally harrowing, logistically overwhelming, and in some cases financially devastating. If you have kids, it’s even more difficult. In the midst of navigating the legal complexity of the divorce process and tending…
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