A recent media article highlights the amount it cost a host of famous female celebrities -- all more well-known and with higher salaries than their spouses -- to secure a divorce from their husbands.In most cases, the answer to that is short and simple: A lot....
Month: June 2011
SC Ruling Issued in Anna Nicole Smith Property Division Case
The exceptionally media-friendly Anna Nicole Smith estate-battle saga "is better than a Harlequin romance novel" stated one reporter a few years back. It featured a former Playboy centerfold; a real Texas tycoon so enamored of her that he married her when he was 90...
Country Singer, Mother Wage Custody Battle in Palm Beach Court
Country singer Mindy McCready is involved in a long-term child custody dispute with her mother, Gayle Inge, concerning McCready's five-year-old son Zander. The matter is contentious and, says McCready, marked by a public portrayal of her that is inaccurate and driven...
Focus: Florida Fathers, Child Custody and Relevant Law
A recent article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper tells the stories of and quotes liberally from several Florida fathers chronicling their experiences following divorce, most centrally with child custody matters.The consensus quite clearly seems to be that...
Canada Responds to Florida Child Custody Dispute with Deportation
The maternal grandparents of two young children were awarded temporary child custody over them in 2004, when a Florida court deemed that outcome to be in their best interests after both parents had abandoned them.According to Florida court documents, the children's...
In-Court Domestic Violence Attack: No Bond in Felony Battery Case
Nearly eight weeks after he attacked his wife in a judge's private chambers in a Fort Lauderdale courthouse, a man faced another Broward County judge in a criminal hearing last week. The man has been charged with felony battery for the sudden outbreak of domestic...
Focus on Domestic Violence: Tips and Warning Signs
Two separate instances in Coral Springs and Miami Beach, respectively, occurred last week in which mothers sought to harm their children. In one of them, a mother instructed her two young children to unbuckle their seat belts and then intentionally rammed her car into...
Divorce Celebrations a Growing Trend; Many Say Healthy
"You only get one go around at this thing they call life, and there's no sense in wasting it," says one recently divorced woman.True enough, but what's the logical follow up to that observation?For increasing numbers of people, it's obvious: a divorce party. That...
NBA Star Dwyane Wade Moves Forward After Custody Dispute Resolved
Two nights ago, Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat won the first game of their professional basketball final series, hoping to repeat as champions for the second time in franchise history.Owing to a turbulent and often uncertain past year, Wade perhaps relishes the...