International divorces are the new normal. We provide news, analysis, critique and help to international globetrotters who find themselves enmeshed in or fascinated by an “international divorce.”
The Black Widows of Japan prefer murder to Divorce The black widows of Japan are renowned. This story about a Japanese woman named Chisako Kakehi is very interesting on a whole lot of different levels. This woman, 70, killed a bunch of guys she was intimately involved with and one of them was her husband. Why? …
Read moreLet's Ask the Black Widows of Japan Which is better: Murder or Divorce
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of late country crooner Elvis Presley is undergoing divorce difficulties. Lisa Marie, 49, and her fourth husband Michael Lockwood are locked in a bitter divorce battle which now includes allegations of child pornography that it appears she has leveled against her soon to be ex husband. According to a blockbuster exposé …
Last year, the Law Gazette announced that UK courts would go digital with divorce and that paperless divorces would be the law of the land in 2017. The idea was to create a user-friendly online system where litigants would begin by filing out an online questionnaire and all interactions with the court and with …
Jealousy over Text Messages Can Turn Deadly! Jealousy over text messages has led to a chef and martial arts enthusiast named Jordan Matthews being convicted of beating his girlfriend to death because he found a dating app on her phone and believed she was soliciting other men. The man and his girlfriend were living together, …
This is a bewildering case from the UK. It seems a woman who married at 26 and remained married for 40 years to the same guy even though they have long since stopped sleeping in the same bedroom and even though she has said that she has been “desperately unhappy in her marriage for …
Read moreUK: Judge Denies Divorce Petition of 66 Year old Tini Owens married 40 years to Hugh Owens
In the Case of Maria Mills vs Graham Mills Insane! 15 years after their divorce was finalized, a British man was taken back to court by his wife for an increase in maintenance. He had been ordered to pay her about £1100 pounds per month, for life. Plus she got all the liquid assets they …
“If he beats you it means he loves you.” This, apparently, is an old Russian proverb and one that the Russian parliament takes as gospel. The new bill which must be signed by President Vladimir Putin will make domestic violence a crime only if there is substantial bodily harm that occurs more than once per …
Read moreRUSSIA: Parliament Goes Rogue Voting 380 – 3 to Decriminalize Domestic Violence
Did Ashish Thakkar lie about his wealth on purpose or did others impose the mantle of “Africa’s Youngest Billionaire” on him against his will? Or is he lying about his wealth to escape having to pay his glamourous wife Meera a hefty sum in a divorce settlement? Because apparently he has been telling a UK …
Whether in Johannesburg or Capetown or any other urban area, divorce rates have been spiking in South Africa for the past 5 years or so. Indeed, it is said that divorce has become a hot trend in the country. Different reasons are offered for this trend including money woes, infidelity and women’s economic power. Indeed, at …
Read moreJohannesburg: Has South Africa Become the Divorce Capital of the African Continent?
A recent ruling in the UK courts could positively impact the lives of women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Courts have ruled that there will no longer be a presumption of contact between abusive fathers and their children after a number of British children were killed by their fathers – presumably in …
Read moreUK Courts End Practice of Allowing Abusive Fathers Access to their Children