Posted on March 27, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 21, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 20, 2013 in Family Law

The creator of the Skinnygirl margaritas, Bethenny Frankel, has announced she is divorcing her husband of three years, Jason Hoppy, a pharmaceutical sales rep. Fans also watched the couple’s romance and marriage play out on Frankel’s reality television shows featured on Bravo, "Bethenny Getting Married?" "Bethenny Ever After" and "Bethenny."

According to a report in the Huffington Post, the two are still living together and will share custody of their two year-old daughter.

In a May 2012 interview with People magazine, Frankel discussed the struggles she faced in her marriage. "Money, family, gender roles, we just keep fighting over them," she told the magazine. "It's almost like a scab that you keep picking at."

Frankel met Hoppy at a nightclub in November 2008, and they two became engaged 11 months later.

Many are predicting that Frankel’s fortune will be a major issue in divorce proceedings. She hit Forbes Magazine Celebrity 100 list last year. And Business Insider reports she sold her Skinnygirl product line to Jim Beam in March 2011 for a reported $120 million. Later SEC filings proved the acquisition of just the brand name was $8 million. There are reports that Hoppy did sign a pre-nuptial agreement before the couple was married.

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 Posted on March 18, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 15, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 14, 2013 in Family Law

A UK newspaper reported a story about surprisingly intense reactions to grandparents keeping in contact with their grandchildren after a divorce. Even though this story is not domestic news, issues regarding divorce in first world countries remain more or less the same.

According to the Telegraph, police in the UK are being called to investigate cases where grandparents are approaching their grandchildren with postcards or presents as harassment. Grandparents often find themselves cut off by the parent who has the custody of a child, but it looks like things are getting worse. In some cases the elderly have been forced to hand over DNA samples or fingerprints, and some have even been threatened with arrest or called to a police station after sending a card or a present to their grandchildren. Some of the grandparents feel they have been humiliated for having to talk to officers regarding something like this.

If the custodial parent unreasonably denies visitation for a grandparent or a sibling, it is possible to petition for visitation. There are criteria for the petition, out of which one must be met. Examples of these criteria are: the parent that is related to the grandparent is mentally incompetent, dead or incarcerated; the parent related to the grandparent has lost parental rights by judicial act; the child is illegitimate and the parents are not living together. These are only a few of the criteria for such petition. For more information, contact an experienced divorce attorney.

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 Posted on March 12, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 09, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 09, 2013 in Family Law

It’s not easy to determine just how many Americans are being unfaithful in a marriage, primarily due to the necessary secrecy that an affair requires. Yet according to menstuff.org, an impressive 22 percent of married men “have strayed at least once during their married lives,” compared with 14 percent of women. Younger people are more likely to cheat, and younger married women more likely to cheat than young married men. The vast majority of partners did not know about the cheating—which is why, most likely, many relationships in which either one or both partners were cheating ended in divorce. According to the Associated Press and reported by menstuff.org, 17 percent of divorces in the U.S. are caused by infidelity.

And yet what does cheating, or infidelity, really mean? Does looking at another person and desiring him or her count as cheating? Do moves actually have to be made? University of Michigan Research Assistant Professor Daniel Kruger set out to determine just that, and earlier this year published a cheating survey, in which he looked at how people define infidelity, according to the Huffington Post. Just over 450 college students were surveyed, and were asked to “look at 27 different behaviors and assign them a number on a scale of 0 to 100 based on the extent to which they believed the action would be considered cheating in a long-term relationship,” according to the Huffington Post.

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