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A Texas judge earlier this year ordered that a Muslim woman seeking a divorce appear before a tribunal governed by Sharia, a move that her lawyers said was unconstitutional. In March, Collin County District Judge Andrea Thompson ordered that Mariam Ayad, a woman attempting to divorce her husband, Ayad Hashim Latif, forgo the usual legal paths and instead submit to arbitration under a Fiqh panel, governed by a traditional Muslim group based in Saudi Arabia. Thompson's reasoning rested on a prenuptial agreement between the two in which Ayad agreed to allow her marriage to be arbitrated according to Sharia. Ayad...

The worst thing one of Mary Jordan’s claimed 100 sources had to say about Melania Trump is that she’s 'stubborn.' No arguments there. There are no major bombshells in Mary Jordan’s new biography of Melania Trump, “The Art of Her Deal.” Jordan merely reaffirms what we’ve always known about the First Lady—she’s a cool head in an unsteady world, and the ultimate poster girl for soft power. The worst thing one of Jordan’s 100 sources had to say about Trump is that she’s “stubborn.” No arguments there. Like an alabaster Greek statue, Melania stays strong and unflappably elegant as her...

What is the role of women in a political movement as misogynistic as President Donald Trump’s? What does it take to be the consort to an authoritarian? Washington Post writer Mary Jordan’s deeply reported book focusing on Melania Trump tackles, in its own way, several of these questions. While the initial buzz centered around rumors that the first lady leveraged her husband’s election to revise her prenup - this book is much more than a standard Bob Woodward-style recitation of insider accounts. Far from the helpless stereotype that has become a running punchline, Jordan’s research reveals something larger: the personality...

Before Shanee Markovitz and Tani Kay get married this May, the couple gathered their close friends together recently to celebrate … their prenup. “I want my friends to see this as a huge part of our wedding. It’s as important as every other piece, if not more,” says Markovitz, 20. “We’re going to announce it at our wedding and put it in our programs, too.” While many prenuptial agreements are kept hush-hush and often seen as unromantic, for this couple — who have been together since they were high-school sophomores — it’s a sign of liberation. And not everyone is...

Buddy Fletcher is so broke he can’t afford his divorce from Ellen Pao, The Post has learned. The former high-flying hedge fund manager — who once rubbed elbows with Lauren Bacall and Roberta Flack — has no lawyer and is representing himself in a divorce from Pao, the former interim CEO of Reddit. He claims in court papers that the divorce, which is ongoing, left him “homeless” at one point, including a period of living in his car. The couple — known as much for Pao’s Silicon Valley gender discrimination claims as Fletcher’s financial downfall — have been slowly working...

Harry has reportedly refused to sign a prenuptial agreement months before his wedding to Meghan Markle. Daily Mail writer Richard Eden claimed that Prince Harry could lose his $41 million fortune because of his decision to not sign an agreement. One of Eden’s friends told him, “There was never a question in Harry’s mind that he would sign a prenup. He’s determined that his marriage will be a lasting one, so there’s no need for him to sign anything.” Eden’s statements came after rumors swirled that the royal family is worried about Prince Harry’s fortune especially since Markle is a...

Anthony Scaramucci's wife, Deidre Ball, has filed for divorce from the White House's new communications director, according to a new report. "Deidre has left him and has filed for divorce," a source told Page Six. "She liked the nice Wall Street life and their home on Long Island, not the insane world of D.C. She is tired of his naked ambition, which is so enormous that it left her at her wits' end. She has left him even though they have two children together."

Ouch: If Elin Bolts, Tiger Gives Up $300 Mil . Prominent Celebrity Divorce Attorney Says Don't Count On Couple Staying Together Because Of Woods' Temptations . Report: If They Split, Prenuptial Agreement Is Largest In Celeb History ### These days, more than half of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, and while Tiger Woods apologized for his transgressions some are wondering whether he'll beat the odds and save his relationship. Many people CBS 2 HD spoke to Wednesday seemed to think the world's most recognized athlete and wife Elin Nordegren would be better served staying together, even though...

Tiger Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, changed the story she told the first officer on the scene, according to law enforcement sources. The Windemere Police Department says Tiger's wife went outside, saw that her husband had struck a fire hydrant and a tree, and then went back inside the house for a golf club to use to try and extricate him from the vehicle. But we've learned Nordegren told a very different story to the Florida Highway Patrol, and it does not involve going back in the house for a club. Our sources will not allow us to be more specific....

Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh's got a new sweetheart - and she's nearly half his age. Limbaugh, who turned 57 Jan. 12, told Page Two he's been dating West Palm Beach resident Kathryn Rogers for the past six months.

Billionaire businessman Ron Perelman's five-year marriage to actress Ellen Barkin is over — and the legendary corporate raider is getting out of the match just in time to save himself a huge bundle of money, sources said yesterday. The Revlon boss — who gained infamy in the late 1990s during a bitter custody battle with third wife Patricia Duff — served his latest spouse with divorce papers at their post Upper East Side mansion yesterday, a source familiar with the couple said. Under the pair's prenup, the bald buyout baron is set to pay the sultry "Sea of Love" actress...

LOS ANGELES - No mother-in-law sleepovers. Only one football game per Sunday. Mandatory sexual positions. With celebrity marriages often shorter than Jessica Simpson's Daisy Dukes, the power of the prenuptial agreement cannot be denied. Simpson and soon-to-be-ex-husband Nick Lachey didn't have a "prenup" — he had more earning power than she did when they got married three years ago — so Simpson could have to part with half of the $30 million she earned last year. Other recent breakups include Valerie Bertinelli from Eddie Van Halen, and Christina Applegate from Jonathon Schaech. Prenups are the norm for most stars —...

Over a casual dinner, Rachel Kaplan turned to her boyfriend and asked, "You're open for a prenup, right?" Darren Waldohlz, 38, a partner in a successful speed-dating business, admits he was caught off guard. But he said he realized a prenuptial agreement would protect the house he owns, too. "It's not that I plan to get divorced," says Kaplan, 23, a single mom from Fort Lauderdale, who has a sizable inheritance. "I have to protect myself and my daughter." While men are still more likely to seek a prenup, "women are becoming a more dominant force," said attorney Alan Braverman,...

Shouldn't a prenup of a presidential candidate be more damning then it has been? I mean if your own wife doesn't trust you? Has ANY presidential candidate had a prenup? Seems this should be bigger news, or just hasn't had its moment yet? or just common knowledge and a yawner? His second heiress and all, its obvious why she has it. Maybe its more common then I thought. Hail to the King Baby.

MIDI - IN MY ROOM She said at Flagstaff's Little America Hotel "To your room.....to your room...to your room" If he wins he is afraid she'll bring four years of hell "To your room...to your room...to your room" She has gobs of money because of all that ketchup He is on a leash that's short because of that pre-nup They were screaming when she finally had laid down the law "To your room...to your room" "To your room...to your room" "To your room...to your room" "To your room...to your room" etc.

Theres a new member of Donald Trump's 'A Team.'Following Ivana and Marla, model Melania Knauss became engaged this week to the billionaire developer, Trump spokesperson Norma Foerderer said Thursday.Trump gave the 33 year old Slovenian native a diamond engagement ring on Monday.Knauss wore the ring to a party that night at the Metropolitian Museum of Art, although it went unnoticed by the hundereds of guests. Trump, 57 has lived with Knauss in his Trump Tower home for the past five years.

Danny Pelosi has a message for the grand jury investigating financier Ted Ammon's murder: "Let's go to the dance. You want to indict me? Let's go!" "There's a lot of people who benefited from his death - financially and otherwise," the gravelly voiced Long Island electrician said yesterday. "We have at least 10 other theories on who and why Ted was killed." Pelosi said if he has to stand trial for murder to prove his innocence in the slaying of his late wife's previous husband, than so be it. "When the dance is over, somebody's got to pay the band,...