Actor Charlie Sheen has filed for divorce from his third wife, Brooke Mueller. The divorce papers, filed in Los Angeles on Monday, cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the dissolution of their marriage and indicated that the couple has a prenuptial...
The divorce of Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods was finalized by a Florida court on August 23, 2010, but details of the high-asset divorce settlement were just released by the website RadarOnline.com. Nordegren apparently received $110 million in the settlement...
Here's a reminder not to judge a legal case before all the facts are in: According to recent reports by the celebrity website TMZ.com and the American Bar Association's ABA Journal, Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva has had 40 lawyers so far during the...
With all the recent news of celebrity divorces, you might think that Hollywood has one of the highest divorce rates in the nation. As a matter of fact, it's not even in the top 50. The news and opinion website the Daily Beast recently analyzed census data to find out...
With the October 12 announcement that Courteney Cox and David Arquette are in a trial separation and will possibly divorce, many people will likely be interested in what is at stake in a high-asset divorce. While the divorce laws in California are somewhat...
An Aiken County, South Carolina, child support enforcement program initiated in 2008 has helped the Aiken County Sheriff's Office and courts close more than 2,000 warrants in the past two years. The "deadbeat dad" project targets fathers who owe more than $20,000 in...
The American Psychiatric Association is in the process of a major revision of its diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Work groups across the fields of psychology and psychiatry are reviewing the manual's current list of...
In the first part of this series, we covered the history of the dispute between Washington, D.C., lawyer Glenn C. Lewis and his former high-asset divorce client Steve Firestone. Lewis had sued Firestone for $249,000 in unpaid legal fees and $253,000 in interest....
For one Washington, D.C., divorce lawyer recently, handling a high-asset divorce ended in a client dispute uglier than the most bitter of divorces. Glenn C. Lewis boasts that he's the most expensive lawyer in the D.C. area -- he often charges $850 an hour. Described...
An international divorce and child custody dispute involving a former UGA professor was heard last week by the Georgia Supreme Court. The case involves former Italian professor Silvia Larese and her divorcing husband Robert Bellew, who is currently a graduate student...