Divorce

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...

Family groups and organizations, sociologists and researchers, pollsters and trend analysts - all of these individuals and entities have long focused on the divorce rate in the United States as a central component in understanding American family life.There is both...

Social media sites, such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, along with communication tools such as e-mail and texting, are often cited for their special utility in fostering contacts and exchanges between people, helping to create lasting and sometimes intimate...

Despite the common nature of divorce in America, there is still a stubbornly held view among a fringe few that retention of the nuclear family at all costs is preferable to divorce in every instance. In other words, an enduring marriage - even if wrought by conflict...

At first blush, the interplay in a debate between what is called an "integrated model of parenthood" and a "diversity approach" to parenthood might not seem to have much immediate relevance to important family law topics and considerations. A Washington University law...