In late June, British-American model and actress Jodie Turner-Smith talked to Hota Kotb on Kotb’s Joy 101 podcast about co-parenting her 5-year-old daughter, Juno, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Dawson’s Creek actor Joshua Jackson. Turner-Smith filed for divorce from Jackson in 2023, after 4 years of marriage. The couple finalized their divorce in…
For better or for worse, social media platforms offer endless advice about pretty much everything: from health and beauty tips to stories about how people got through their divorces. Sometimes those two particular topics even intersect. Late last month, USA Today ran a story about a viral TikTok trend: the Divorce Glow-Up. According to…
A recent New York Times article, “They Started I.V.F., Then Split. Now Who Gets Custody of the Embryos?” examines the complex case of attorney Erin Millender and her ex-husband, Adam Rubin, who helps run a Long Island HVAC company. Millender, a high-powered career woman, had always dreamed of – and planned on – having…
For a long time, it’s been considered common knowledge that “50% of marriages end in divorce.” But that figure is outdated. According to a compilation of data published by Marriage Science: The crude divorce rate in the U.S. dropped by 42% in just over two decades – from 4.0 per 1,000 in 2000 to…
The main difference between divorce and legal separation in California is that divorce legally ends the marriage, while legal separation allows spouses to resolve financial, property, support, and parenting issues while remaining legally married. A divorced person may remarry after the divorce is final. A legally separated person may not remarry unless they later…
Weddings are expensive – but divorces can truly break the bank. Yes, legal fees can be a significant factor, especially in a contested divorce with heated disputes and complex or high-value assets. In general, the less you can agree on, the more you have to litigate, the longer it takes, and the more the…
Launched a decade ago as a subscription social media platform where digital creators could directly monetize their content, OnlyFans (OF) became known primarily as a hub for adult content – especially during Covid lockdowns, when it ballooned from 20 million to 120 million users. Today OF has 240 million users, and its 2 million…
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”…
