Month: December 2010

Both hard research findings and a considerable amount of anecdotal evidence suggest that many couples thinking hard about divorce in the latter months of the year opt to wait instead and pull the plug on failed marriages earlier the following year. The reasons are...

Leon Walker, an information technology employee in Michigan and someone who knows his way around a computer, has now been suspended from work and is being criminally charged for using one.Walker's case has garnered national interest because it appears that it is the...

Fifty-four percent of Americans say that they harbor little optimism about the economy going forward. Thirty-three percent say that they are pessimistic about both the tradition of marriage and their prospects for it in the future.Researchers from the Pew Research...

Dallas businessman Andy Beal has a lot of money.He's probably going to need it. Details surfacing from a civil lawsuit filed recently by his wife, Simona, reveal that she is seeking $20 billion from him in a rancorous divorce proceeding. Although the documents related...

In the huge arena of divorced people, one particular group doesn't seem much differentiated from another. That is, whether you were married three years or 20; whether you had or did not have kids; whether you lived in the north or the south; whether you were a...

Entrepreneurs are always looking for something potentially lucrative to invest in. Here's an idea - divorce.Stories have recently surfaced about fledgling companies that offer divorce insurance, where one or both spouses can buy a policy to safeguard against marital...

Ambrose Bierce, the acerbic American social commentator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, defined divorce as "a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries."The point: From the very beginning of the United States until now, there have...