In a story that even Ripley might not believe, a woman in Sondershausen, Germany has apparently divorced her husband for cleaning too much.
Reuters reports that the guy not only did chores, but tidied up and even – gasp! – rearranged the furniture. He did get a little carried away, however, by actually knocking down and rebuilding a…
So you have an Order of Child Support (OCS) saying that you owe a certain amount each month – a transfer payment. Now what?
If you’re the parent who owes child support (usually, but not always, the non-residential parent), then you’re called the “Obligor” – that is, the parent obliged to pay support for your children. The other parent (your…
On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court struck down the state statute banning same-sex marriage - just the third state to allow gay marriage, after Connecticut and Massachusetts (sorry, fickle California – but soon after, Vermont made it four – and the first to do so legislatively). Most striking about the Iowa vote is that it was…
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A conflict from neighboring Rwanda spilled over into the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to a brutal war that claimed 5 million lives. In its wake, Congo’s ineffectual government does little while armed gangs continue to roam eastern Congo, raping women on a scale that…
C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.
Photo courtesy Balakov, via creative commons license.
Divorce is so prevalent nowadays that getting married at all sometimes seems like successfully navigating an asteroid field. So how do you know if your True Love…
There are 4 basic ways of appealing a court decision you don’t agree with:
We’ll look at Revisions first, and go…
This is a story from a beautiful place, mostly without laws of any sort, where vast human rights abuses against women defy description. Among other things, it’s a story of why, seventeen years after law school, I finally joined the American Bar Association.
You may not know that the world’s…
Abovethelaw.com is a self-proclaimed legal tabloid on the legal profession. It’s professionally designed, humorous and sometimes even informative. Mostly it’s just pithy, such as its take on big law firm schaudenfreude called “Skaddenfreude” after the mega-firm Skadden Arps.
There’s also a healthy dollop of family law snark:
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It’s usually hard to tell how a court’s going to rule after reading just the first three sentences of an opinion. But not always.
A 2/18/09 Washington Court of Appeals (Div. II) opinion on a nasty custody fight begins:
“When Anthony Meredith was about 37 years old and a Virginia Assistant Attorney General [an AAG, a state prosecutor], he…
