Newsflash: There’s life after divorce.
Posted in Divorce on Apr 17th, 2009
A co-worker of mine turned me on to Cake Wrecks, a website that celebrates professional cakes gone horribly wrong. The site is hilarious, and now there’s a new batch of cakes that may show up: Divorce cakes.
Getting a divorce is a signficiant process, both legally and emotionally. Some individuals mark the end of the [...]
Posted in Divorce on Apr 17th, 2009
I’ve written in a previous post about various claims by researchers that they can predict divorce. Apparently, a US researcher claims that yearbook photos may predict divorce. See the story here.
The study started with an e-mail to 18,000 alumni, with only 428 people completing the survey. Of those 428 respondents, 79 were eliminated because of [...]
The May 2009 issue of “O” magazine features a short story entitled “Divorce, Interrupted”. Print media has caught up with electronic media in reporting that the current economic climate is affecting couple’s decisions to separate. The piece, which offers advice for couples “stuck together in splitsville” offers a new term for the new economic challenge: [...]
If you haven’t heard by now, Robyn Moore has filed for divorce from her very famous husband, Mel Gibson. US News is reporting the story with the headline “Mel Gibson’s Divorce: Priciest in Hollywood History”. Gibson’s wealth is estimated at $900 million, which gives the divorce case the dubious honor of being the highest asset [...]
Posted in Divorce on Apr 6th, 2009
This story is being reported by Reuters in its “Oddly Enough” section with the headline “Woman divorces husband for cleaning too much.” It’s a short story, so let me paste it here:
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time.
German media reported the [...]
Posted in Divorce, Domestic Partnership, Financial on Apr 6th, 2009
As of the end of the week, the stock market ended on an upturn. It gained for the fourth consecutive week, and it’s doing better than it has for the last seven weeks. I’m happy to hear this and I hope the trend continues.
Still, the market is down from its 2007 high of around 14,000 [...]