Monthly Archives: May 2009

Shanghai (Car Dealer) Surprise

“I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.” – Mao Zedong

1.7 million Chinese folk have downloaded an online video of a woman who basically goes nuts after her husband (or boyfriend; it’s unclear) refuses to buy her the car she wants at a Shanghai dealership.…

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Meetways – Online Handover Meetup Tool

The Minnesota Divorce and Family Law Blog is an excellent site for both regional and nationally relevant information.

The blog writes about a cool new web tool (no, not runpee.com, the site that tells you when you go pee during a movie). The gloriously simple idea of meetways.com is to let you find a…

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Justin And Jordan – Twins Separated Before Birth?

Everyone knows that cheating  can have unintended consequences, but here’s another story worthy of a bad soap opera:

Mia Washington noticed that her infant twin sons had different facial features. DNA testing proved that Justin and Jordan had different fathers.

Mia admits to cheating on her partner James Harrison, who is father to one of the twins.

Sky News

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How to Get Temporary Orders – Note for Motions Docket

Last week we published a general article on the documents necessary to file Temporary Orders. Next week we’ll put up an article on the Motion and Declaration for Temporary Orders.

The Note for Motion Docket is a document that tells the court, and your ex, what kind of motion you’ve filed, when, and where you want your…

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Gay Diplomats To Ask, Tell & Get Their Per Diem

Gay rights advocates have become increasingly impatient for the Obama administration to make good on its pledge to dismantle the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell insanity.  Till then, at least there’s some positive news from the State Department.  Matthew Lee from the Huffington Post reports:

In a notice to be sent soon to

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Bad Karma For Good Rosaries?

A massive new report by the Irish Commision To Inquire into Child Abuse has uncovered enough malfeasance and coverups in Catholic reform schools for a dozen Charles Dickens novels, a month of Oprah’s and a Dan Brown prequel.

Rape, humiliation, ritual abuse, it’s all there.  The nine-year investigation, conducted only after a decade of lobbying by abuse survivors,

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Elleia Of Samoa … and Spanish Fork … and Samoa

This American Life is not just the best radio show in America – the TV version might be the best thing on TV as well (sorry Dollhouse).

This week’s radio episode discusses a terribly sad story of international adoption fraud.  The story ends this past February, with a complicated criminal plea for four members of the adoption agency…

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Switched At Birth – Not Just A Bad Plot Device!

I remember getting a little plastic bracelet when my first son was born, with his name on it.  My wife and he also had similar bracelets.  We were told that these bracelets were supposed to eliminate any confusion as to whose baby was whose.  Seemed a little silly at the time, like some bad soap opera plot device, but it…

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A Q By Any Other Name Would Smell Less Dumb

In America, there are freedoms that we just come to take for granted, because, you know, we’re so great and all. Like the inalienable right to name your kid the most idiotic name you can possibly think of (pretty much guaranteeing that he’ll be forcibly stuffed into a locker by 3rd grade, by some guys named Chet and Todd, then…

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Filing For Temporary Orders – Why You (Probably) Need Them, And How To Get Them

The term “temporary orders” is shorthand for a number of different orders that you can ask the Court to enter prior to the finalization of your divorce.  They are temporary in the sense that they will be in force until they are replaced by the orders entered when you finalize your divorce (or, occasionally, later temporary orders).

WHY YOU

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