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MICHIGAN: Michael Moore's divorce battle with estranged wife Kathleen Glynn rages on

Controversial director, political activist and social critic Michael Moore and his wife Kathleen Glynn are getting divorced up in Michigan. And it is not a “conscious uncoupling.” The Smoking Gun, Fox News and NY Post Page Six are all over the saga. There seems to be quite a lot of properties in this marriage which include places …

NEW JERSEY: Divorce attorney Vikki S. Ziegler ('the diva") gets her own talk show

They call her the “diva” and ostensibly with good reason. New Jersey’s Vikki Ziegler is headlining a new talk show about divorce for Bravo. This was recently reported in the New Jersey Law Journal and a few other publications. It sounds like it is going to be delicious. The producers have even put out a casting …

TEXAS: Same sex couple's divorce and custody battle will proceed says San Antonio judge

San Antonio, Texas: Kristi Lesh v. Allison Flood Lesh Judge rules that the state of Texas cannot block a divorce and custody battle from proceeding just because there is a day marriage ban in the state… This is an interesting case involving two Texas women who married each other in 2010 in Washington only to seek …

LOUISIANA: New law makes domestic violence grounds for immediate divorce

Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Governor Jindal signs new bill into law Did you know that the state of Louisiana has the dubious reputation of being the state with the highest annual number of deaths from domestic violence? Well Governor Bobby Jindall and the state legislature would like to change that. A recent bill which received unanimous …

U.S. A stronger economy has led to an increase in the divorce rate – Bloomberg

According to a recent article from Bloomberg News, more Americans are getting divorced in the post 2009 Great Recession era. It almost sounds like this might be a good thing – at least for the U.S. economy given that there is a corresponding positive impact on several economic drivers such as “demand for housing” which in …

BROOKLYN: "Divorce gangs" in Orthodox community a rising menace but is the Jewish divorce "get" extortion scheme a worldwide problem?

The recent arrest of a cadre of rabbis and other Jewish men who tried to muscle other Jewish men into giving their estranged wives a “get” raises some very disturbing questions including, how widespread is this practice? Is this unique to the New York Jewish community? Or is it found in other enclaves around the …

CALIFORNIA: Frankie Valli life insurance policy purchased with marital assets with wife as beneficiary are community property

An article in the ABA Journal explains how California community property rules were strengthened by the Frankie Valli case. The former entertainer apparently purchased a life insurance Policy with his wife Randy Valli as beneficiary back in 2003. Today the plan is valued at over three million dollars. The Vallis filed for divorce years later and …

NEW YORK: Jewish ex husband remarries while refusing to give his wife a "get" – NYT

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Getting Divorced

According to a recent article in the New ‘York Times, Meir Kin is an orthodox Jew who flatly refuses to give his wife Baniela Barboa a “get” which is basically a “release” from their marriage such that she can remarry if she chooses. Mr Kin is among a group of Orthodox Jewish men who bully their wives …

10 Ways to Get More Clients – A Primer for Divorce Lawyers and divorce experts

If a divorce lawyer or solicitor can’t make it rain clients, your divorce practice cannot survive. This is a basic axiom of attorney business development strategists. An attorney has to be able to make it rain. But how? This is hardly a skill practiced or taught in law school. At least it wasn’t in the 1990s. On top of that, family law is a tough and competitive area of law. It has the most lawyers who congregate in it and for that reason, there isn’t enough clients to go around sometmes. This is true locally and internationally as well – even though International Divorce is a little bit less crowded since it requires perhaps a higher level of expertise and sophistication and legal know how.

Divorce Marketing: Are advertisers ignoring the "divorce niche" due to fear of divorce stigma?

Divorce News & information for divorce lawyers, professionals and advertisers The stigma of divorce can cost companies money. Back in the Spring of 2008, a few months before Divorce Saloon was launched as an “international” portal (we’ve been around since 2006 but as a local divorce portal in New York), Adweek ran an article written by this guy …