http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/divorce/ en-us Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:12:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2092178/posts Man Sues Marital Counselor Priest For Stealing Wife September 27, 2008 11:29 a.m. EST Amy Beeman - AHN Joliet, IL (AHN) -- An Illinois man is suing a priest for stealing his wife. Stephen Crane is suing on the grounds that he and his wife, Maureen, went to see the priest, Christopher Floss, at their church for marital counseling. According to reports, after many one-on-one sessions between the priest and Maureen in 2006, the Cranes broke up in January 2007, Floss left the priesthood, and Mrs. Crane moved in with the former priest in February. Crane is suing Floss and... www.allheadlinenews.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2092178/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:12:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087640/posts Riyadh - A Saudi court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported. It said the girl’s mother had filed the divorce case with the court at Unayzah 220 kilometres (135 miles) north of Riyadh, and cited lawyer Abdullah Jtili as saying the father had arranged the marriage without telling the girl. "She doesn’t know yet that she has been married," added Jtili of the girl who is about to begin her fourth year at primary school. Al-Watan said relatives... The Times (S. Africa) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087640/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:28:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2082726/posts LOURDES, FRANCE–Pope Benedict said yesterday the Roman Catholic Church could not recognize "irregular unions" of Catholics who divorce and remarry outside the church. "Initiatives aimed at blessing irregular unions cannot be admitted," he said in an address to French bishops in the shrine city of Lourdes. Throughout the developed world, the church has been struggling with how to administer to Catholics who have divorced and remarried without an annulment – an ecclesiastical declaration that their first union is null and void – but want to remain fully active in the church. The church does not recognize divorce. It considers the... The Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2082726/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:23:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076873/posts Given that we’re more than halfway to the century mark in Palin smears, I think it’s time to take another brief look at the left’s method of smear dissemination. The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076873/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:27:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075743/posts Nutcase bloggers will have to find another smear against Sarah Palin … again. Did you hear that Todd Palin’s former business partner tried to get his divorce records sealed? Conspiracy theorists immediately began speculating on line that Sarah Palin — that vixen! — must have had an affair and broken up the marriage. Why else would the partner suddenly act to seal his records? As the Smoking Gun discovered, Scott Richter wanted them sealed — to protect himself from conspiracy theorists: --------------------- So when the blogosphere discovered today (via an online court docket) that Scott Richter, a Palin associate, personally... hotair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075743/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 01:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073853/posts This woman leads a double life. Her boyfriend thinks she’s a secretary. In fact she is one of Japan’s new breed of professional seducers, hired by embittered spouses to entrap their straying partners. And she’ll stop at nothing to get the desired results.Case 1: Mr A and Kyoko 3.30pm. Mr A is outside a bank in a busy part of Ikebukuro, a faintly seedy area of Tokyo, waiting for his date. He beams as she teeters across the road on high heels. Kyoko, 20, is half his age. She has a mane of black hair, sloe eyes, a fetching smile... Timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073853/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:23:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071792/posts Maggie Scarf, an American journalist [] has written a succession of books on family and marriage. In this one, she turns her attention to couples in their 50s and 60s, and finds older marriage is full of unexpected pleasures. ... [T]he clearest message, both from the research and from the couples, is upbeat. Those later years are, of course, a time of adjustments. The nest empties. Retirement approaches. The body may start to hint that it is not immortal. ... This time around, however, the answers are more manageable. The popular image of these late years may be of crusty... Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071792/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:36:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068525/posts I contemplate divorce every day. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of waking up together, he still hasn't quite pieced out that I'm not viable before 10 a.m. ..snip.. Maybe one day, marriage -- like the human appendix, male nipples, or your pinky toes -- will become a vestigial structure that will, in a millennium or two, be obsolete. Our great-great-great-grandchildren's grandchildren will ask each other in passing, "Remember marriage? What was its function again? Was it that maladaptive organ that intermittently produced... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068525/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:53:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060930/posts TORONTO — A little over a week ago, the literary world was lauding novelist Stephenie Meyer, a Mormon stay-at-home mother, as the new J.K. Rowling amid the excitement surrounding the release of the fourth instalment in her "Twilight" teen fiction series, "Breaking Dawn." Today, the bestselling book is the subject of a backlash that's prompted a group in the United States to organize a "return your book" protest. On Amazon's U.S. website, a group of readers, led by a one-time bookstore employee, is urging former fans to return their copies of "Breaking Dawn" in order to deprive Meyer of royalties... CP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060930/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:36:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059974/posts A New Jersey judge recently confronted an issue that courts have been avoiding for years: are restraining orders constitutional? Accused criminals have "due process" and many other constitutional rights, but the feminists have persuaded many judges to issue orders that restrain actions of non-criminals and punish them based on flimsy, unproved accusations. These restraining orders are issued without the due process required for criminal prosecutions, yet they carry the threat of a prison sentence for anyone who violates them. Mr. and Mrs. Crespo were divorced and rearing their children in the same household when they had a fight, and Mrs.... Stiff Right Jab http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059974/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:05:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2058701/posts A businessman decapitated himself in his sports car to get back at his younger wife for leaving him, an inquest has heard. Gerald Mellin, 54, taunted his estranged wife Mirrielle, 33, with threats of suicide. He even showed her the rope he was going to use, which he kept in the boot of his open-top Aston Martin DB7.... Daily Mail (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2058701/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:36:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2055786/posts Scenario: Couple married 6 months. Upon marriage, husband rented out his home to move into wife's home so that her child would not be disrupted re school, friends, etc. Now wife wants him to leave because they are not getting along. He feels he should be able to stay untilthe lease on his home expires so he can move back into his own home. Can the wife "Evict" him? There has been no physical violence, just fighting over finances and differences in running a household. Not applicable http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2055786/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 17:11:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050853/posts Earlier this week, the Mike and Juliet Morning Show featured a segment about divorce and the damage it can wreak on children's lives. Texan Mario and his ex-wife Brenda appeared on the show with their two teenage kids to discuss how the divorce has affected them. Mario was in a tough situation, due to the angry and accusatory Brenda, but I thought he handled himself well. I'm sure Mario was not a perfect husband/father -- we men aren't as perfect as women are -- but she threw accusation after accusation at him and little seemed to stick. Mario and Brenda... GlennSacks.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050853/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:31:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049481/posts "Basically throwing me out on the street." Yup. Getting $750,000, as agreed in their prenup, is being "thrown out into the street." You remember Tricia Walsh-Smith--according to the AP, she vilified husband Philip Smith in a "furious YouTube video, which has attracted more than 3 million hits. She makes embarrassing claims about their intimate life and then calls his office to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant. "On the video, Walsh-Smith also goes through their wedding album, describing family members as 'bad,' 'evil' or 'nasty,' and expresses concern about eviction from the couple's luxury apartment." Her routine was so... GlennSacks.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049481/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:02:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047629/posts Former Colombian hostage Marc Gonsalves filed for divorce from his wife Alisa ''Shane'' Gonsalves Thursday in Key West. Gonsalves, a resident of Big Pine Key, was one of three Americans rescued from the jungles of Colombia on July 2 after being held captive for more than five years by FARC guerrillas. He returned to Big Pine Key on Saturday, flying into Marathon airport aboard a private plane. Gonsalves grew up in Connecticut. He and his wife have three teenage children: Joey, Cody and Destiny. Shane Gonsalves has declined all requests for interviews since her husband's rescue. The Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047629/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:55:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046416/posts Two lovers had a brush with death after their car plunged 46m down a cliff, while they were having sex in the back seat. According to the police Lin Gu, 25, and lover Lee Shin, 29, suffered broken bones when their car tipped over the edge of the hill in XinDian, Taiwan. "They had parked up close to the edge of the mountain and had left the handbrake off," Daily Telegraph quoted a spokesman, as saying. "When they started having sex the rocking motion started the car moving and it rolled off the hill. They were lucky they were not... Web India 123 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046416/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:50:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046404/posts In the debate over gay marriage, strikingly little attention has been paid to the impact on children. Some question the wisdom of having children raised by two homosexuals, but the best they can seem to argue is that serious flaws vitiate the literature defending it. Almost no attention has been devoted to what may be the more serious political question of who will supply the children of gay "parents," since obviously they cannot produce children themselves. A few will come from sperm donors and surrogate mothers, but very few. The vast majority will come, because they already do come, from... http://www.massnews.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046404/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:28:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2044443/posts A TRAINEE priest due for an audience with the Pope this week has agreed to leave a seminary after church officials discovered he had an ex-wife 56 years his senior and that he claimed his late father may have been involved in murdering close family and friends. But Salvatore Scevola, 36, still plans to get in to see the Pope through his media accreditation with Vatican television channel Telepace. Catholic officials became concerned about Mr Scevola's suitability for the priesthood when they discovered that in his 20s he was married to a woman 56 years older than him, eventually divorcing... Canberra Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2044443/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044434/posts Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement. "Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op. In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years." But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain's decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044434/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:14:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044163/posts The bad economy strikes again. This time – it’s marital relationships, or people’s ability to end them. NBC’s July 11 “Today” found an unlikely victim of the economic slowdown – divorce rates. According to the segment, the high cost of divorce is keeping some couple together. “[W]hile the price of divorce normally doesn’t run that high, there is evidence the troubled economy is forcing some troubled couples to stay together, at least for the time being,” NBC’s “Today” co-host Natalie Morales said. businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044163/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:15:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043958/posts Kerrville Texas - A bitter divorce trial slated to begin in a Kerr County courtroom in late August between Joseph and Kimberly Burkett already is making national headlines. Public interest in the case grew when CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, Lara Logan, announced she was pregnant. The father, she claims, is Joseph Burkett of Kerrville. Their relationship began while Logan was on assignment in Iraq, where Burkett was stationed as a federal contractor, according to news reports. The relationship reportedly began shortly after Logan broke off another relationship with a fellow journalist last November. Burkett and Logan apparently met years... The Kerrville Daily Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043958/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:08:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042617/posts Tuesday, July 8th 2008, 4:00 AM Alex Rodriguez's bitter divorce took an ugly turn on Monday night when Team A-Rod accused his estranged wife of going on a spiteful spending spree in Paris. Spurned spouse Cynthia Rodriguez used the Yankee slugger's credit card to the tune of $100,000 to punish him for a dalliance with Madonna that both he and the Material Girl deny, an A-Rod pal said. "She's been spending wildly," the friend said. "She spent close to $100,000 on her jaunt to Paris." Cynthia flew the godparents of her daughters, Dodd and Sabina Romero, and their older... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042617/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:21:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041652/posts CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (MyFOX Atlanta) – A Clayton County man was behind bars Sunday, accused of killing his own daughter. Police said the father was angry because he felt his daughter was disgracing the family. Investigators said 54-year-old Chaudhry Rashad was so outraged at his daughter, Sandela Kanwal, and her plans for divorce that he killed her after a heated argument at the family's home. Investigators said Rashad confessed to strangling the 25-year-old woman. myfoxatlanta.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041652/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 02:07:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2035140/posts The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's hopes of seeing communion extended to divorcees like himself have been quashed by Pope Benedict XVI.Newspapers reported on Sunday that while attending a ceremony in Sardinia Mr Berlusconi had asked a bishop when the Church planned to change the rules. But the Pope told a conference in Canada that communion can only be received by those free of major sin. "We have to do everything... to receive [communion] in a pure heart," he said. No changeMr Berlusconi has recently begun a major effort to try and get communion granted to divorced and remarried people... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2035140/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:48:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031169/posts - In Sweden that is. All the same, if various experts are right, the Nordic countries are not only the richest part of the world, but also global leaders in the domain of QUALITY of life. Therefore, living in this part of Stockholm is probably as good as life gets, or? The article: "The Stockholm suburb of Danderyd is the best municipality in which to live, according to a new ranking by the magazine Fokus. Lund and nearby Lomma in southern Sweden follow closely behind. Ljusnarsberg municipality in the Bergslagen region of central Sweden ended up in last place. The... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031169/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:17:52 GMT