New Global Trends in the Business of Divorce
Are you an expat? Recently immigrated? Married to someone from another country? Are you thinking of leaving your marriage and going home? Relocation after divorce is a complex issue and often not permitted if children are involved.....If you are thinking of leaving your relationship and moving away make sure you read our interviewwith one of New York's top international lawyers Jeremy Morley. Life can get a lot more difficult.
Whilst the fight for equal rights continues for gay people in the USA, New Zealanders’ seem at ease with Civil Unions for same-sex couples and marriage for opposite-sex couples. But is the fight for equal rights as strong as the actual use of Civil Union or same-sex marriage?
At forty-five and still single after divorcing 10 years ago, I felt I had to find some reason I had not met Mr Right .. my Darcy! It could be that I have spent too much time watching my favourite movie Pride and Prejudice, and wishing life and love were still that simple! From my own personal observations, there are not enough single eligible bachelors in their 30s and 40s and now 50s. It certainly feels like a man-drought! So how bad is it really?
Our visitor poll tells us that 40% of you are thinking about separating! 36% of you have separated and 11% of you have already divorced! What does this tell us? That there are a lot of unhappy couples out there, wanting more out of their relationships and life. Political and legal thinking around the world are reshaping social norms, often instituting laws that are aimed at improving inequalities and protecting the rights of men, women and children. However, in doing so many of our incentives which traditionally held family in place are being removed. The question for many is why would I want to marry and do I need to?
Extreme Divorce News
Wacky rulings in divorce force one man to jail for refusing to divorce his wife and another cuts his tools in half to abide by a Serbian court order to divide chattels equally.
Jailed for Forcing His 8 Year Old to MarryAn eight year old girl plucks up the courage to enter a court and ask for a divorce. How on earth?... According to Hamed Thabet of the Yemen Times, the girl - Nojoud Muhammed Nasser went to court alone on April 2 in an effort to find a judge to handle her case against her father, Muhammed Nasser. Her father had forced her to marry Faez Ali Thamer, a man 22 years her senior two months ago. Yemeni law does not allow minors to prosecute. However, the court judge did hear her complaint and subsequently ordered the arrests of both her father and husband. source
It may be going against the trend to work on your relationship but it could overcome the pain and hardship of what is for many a harder road through divorce.
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Last Updated February 2008
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