An Iowa man literally tried to take control of his car while in the passenger seat, wrenching the wheel from his wife and sending the car careening off the road.
The Des Moines Register reports that:
[The] 26-year-old man was charged with domestic assault and was being held at Polk County Jail. His
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My wife stayed at home with our two kids for about 4 years, before going back to work last year. Upon getting a 9-5 office job, she was struck by how easy it was, by comparison.
“I get a lunch break! All to myself!” she exclaimed. “When I was at home with the kids I felt lucky if I could…
The Palm Beach Post reports on the recent nuptials of nervous groom Ebenezer Rose, 93 and his blushing bride, 89-year old Monica Hayden:
The couple, friends for decades, said they decided to take the plunge after a brief courtship.
Rose, who as a younger man traveled the world as a missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, met Hayden
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As family law attorneys, we see debt problems in many of our cases. The budgeting site mint.com has a great new graphic presentation on the hellish descent into credit card debt.
Proceed, if you dare, into this brilliantly conceived nightmare by Jess Bachman….
Good luck to you in your battles with the Gods…
Yes, you can. The rules for Fannie Mae state that if there is 12 months of payment history of the spousal support AND there is proof in the decree stating three more years of continuing spousal support from the date of closing, the spousal support may be used as income to qualify.
There can be exceptions…
A few weeks ago we wrote about the rape epidemic in the Congo. Unfortunately, a culture of tolerating and even encouraging gang rapes appears in other parts of Africa as well. This week the BBC reports about a South African man who sought out a woman he had raped as a teenager in his home village:…
This may well be apocryphal, but yeah, I don’t really think this is the technique recommended by those self-help mavens on how to tell your kids about your divorce….
Maybe the best takeaway is from a comment on digg.com:
thebasshacker
8 hr 50 min ago
First rule
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We recently ran a story about one unintended consequence of cheating – having twins, each with a different father. We now learn that there is apparently no statute of limitations on the rage of the spouse being cheated on. The Everett Herald reports that a 78-year old woman took a lead pipe to her…
Enterprising young women are, we hear, fleecing desperate bachelors in rural China. First the vixen ask for an exorbitant “bride price,” next get quickly hitched, and then get out of Dodge even quicker.
The Wall Street Journal reports that decades of population control policies have led to an amazing surplus of 32 million “extra” young men. Whole villages are simply…
This pop quiz involves a 2002 law which imposes a statute of limitations of two years for challenging another man’s claim of paternity. The main purpose of the law is to encourage stability for children by ensuring that the question of paternity for children is generally decided within two years of the child’s birth.…
