Throwback Thursday – Famous Historical Divorces
Henry VIII versus Pope Clement VII When you are in the middle of the divorce you may feel like things couldn’t get much worse or that no one could possibly understand what you are going through. In reality, divorce has been around in various forms for a great deal of human history. Divorce statements have been found from […]
Family Law Hearsay and Heresy
The latest in Family Law headlines from around the world: * The continued saga of Real Housewives divorces: (NYMag) *Forbes “Richest man in Russia” in a £10Billion asset fight, has all the makings of one of the worlds biggest divorce battles: (DailyMail) *A U.S. court ordered a Russian woman, arrested in a child-custody battle, to […]
Throwback Thursday – Famous Historical Divorces
JULIUS CAESAR Sometime around the year 62 B.C., the great Roman statesmen, Julius Caesar, decided he no longer wanted to be married to his second wife, Pompeia, because someone tried to seduce her. Wow. He sounds a bit like the jealous type. The story goes that Pompeia was throwing a girls only party known as Bona Dea […]
Marriages Dissolve, But Parenting Partnerships Are ‘to Death Do Us…
Just because you are divorced does not mean you are rid of your ex. Dr. Jamie Williamson, Family Mediator and President of Amity Mediation Workshop, recently wrote an article for the Huffington Post discussing how even when marriages dissolve, co-parenting never ends. Parents choose the path they go down with their former spouse during divorce and that path can have […]
Preparing for Divorce
“Help me to help you by getting me as much information as you can. Get all of your financial records together as soon as possible. Most importantly, tell me everything – good or bad. I can’t protect you if I don’t have the facts.” That is a quote I gave to Modern Luxury Magazine’s Insight […]