Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.
Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
It was just a very short period of time that I had a brief marriage.
My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.
The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.
Real divorce takes place without a decree.
What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family?
I think that when Magic decided that he didn't want to be with the organization any longer in an official capacity that took me off guard.
I would have been long divorced if I got married.
Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
The people I've met who are divorce lawyers, there's a sense of them having to look reassuringly expensive.
I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.
Married in 1983, separated in 1987, and divorced in 1988. Enough said.
Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.
Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
