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Helping Your Female Friends Through Divorce

When women go through a divorce , it can be difficult in so many ways. Therefore, knowing how to speak to your female friends about divorce and understanding what to do during this difficult time can ...
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Deion Sanders Awarded Restraining Order against Wife

After police responded to a domestic violence call at his home, former NFL player Deion Sanders was successful in obtaining a restraining order against his wife, Pilar Sanders. A judge in Texas ruled ...
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Screening Women for Domestic Violence Could Save Lives

A recent report conducted by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force shows that routine screening for domestic violence could save lives. The task force must now decide whether to update current ...
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Professional Horse Jockey Arrested for Domestic Violence

News sources say that a professional jockey was thrown out of a Churchill Downs race earlier this month. At the event, Robby Albarado was taken into police custody on one charge of domestic violence ...
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Quaids May Reconcile Instead of Divorce

News sources say that one Hollywood couple may have decided to give their marriage another shot. Kimberly Buffington-Quaid, wife to Dennis Quaid, has asked a judge to dismiss her current divorce case. ...
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Summary Dissolution: A Quick Divorce

Have you considered getting a divorce and want to have it done as quickly as possible? If so, you may have heard about uncontested divorces. While they can be completed much quicker than contested ...
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First Woman Wins Paternity Suit in Colorado

A mother will finally be reunited with her daughter after years of legal battles. W.A. made history by becoming the first woman to win a paternity case in the state of Colorado. W.A. was in a ...
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Redo child support financials

I want to redo my child support financials in order to lower my child support. I get over 140 of the overnight stays and had opted to pay my ex way more than I needed to get her to agree to the ...
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Filing For a Dissolution to Expedite Divorce

Are you anxious to get your divorce done and over with in the state of California? If so, you should consider filing for a summary dissolution. This is the fastest way to get your divorce finalized, ...
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Mother Files Restraining Order against 10-Year-Old Bully

Last month a mother in the state of Kentucky filed a restraining order against a 10-year-old boy. She claimed that her daughter had been bullied by the child for over two years and that the school had ...
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Should veteran's disability pay be included in a divorce settlement?

A case going through Supreme Court could have far-reaching consequences on divorce settlements. A disabled veteran wants the courts to consider whether a veteran's disability compensation should ...
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Divorce - Not a Chess Game; Children are not Pawns

Parental alienation is a devastating tactic used to manipulate children into siding with the other parent. Even though we all know that divorces can be bitter, when you add children into the mix, the ...
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Bankruptcy And Its Effects On Divorce Matters

San Diego California family attorney John Griffith discusses bankruptcy and its effects on divorce proceedings.
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Avoiding Money Troubles In Marriage

There are few things that can sink a marriage faster than miscommunication when it comes to money. This is especially true in a world where the economy can make any job disappear and turn a healthy ...
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Divorce Makes American Women Work More

America is the land of innovation and hard work. At least the latter is what a new study shows—that the workforce in the U.S. spends 30% more time in the office than their European counterparts. ...
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Bad Marriages Make Better Future Ones

Every cloud has a silver lining, and the one for a failed, contentious marriage has been found by new research coming out of U.T. Austin. According to their paper, '"How Good for Children is ...
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Returned Russian Orphan Gets Day In Court

Here's a happy update from a story we wrote about previously . Torry Hansen is a woman who adopted a young Russian boy, bringing him from Moscow to her California home in 2009. According to ...
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Linda Evangelista Seeks $46,000 in Child Support

After dating a billionaire for just four months, a supermodel became pregnant with his child. Five years later, she is now suing him for what is being called an excessive amount of child support. ...
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Debts

In Tennessee the court will classify debt as individual or marital. A party will normally be responsible for his or her individual debt . For example, if a party had a student loan prior to the ...
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Debts

In Tennessee the court will classify debt as individual or marital. A party will normally be responsible for his or her individual debt . For example, if a party had a student loan prior to the ...
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