Divorce News
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Bejing -
A Chinese man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife almost $8,000 for years of unpaid housework, in a landmark divorce case that has sparked furious debate in China.
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Shanghai -
Echo couldn't figure out why her Shanghai businessman husband routinely came home well past midnight, straining their 10-year marriage -- until she looked at his phone.
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Washington -
US space agency NASA is investigating what may be the first crime committed in outer space, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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New Delhi -
The Indian government and women's groups hailed "historic" legislation Wednesday that criminalised "instant divorce" for Muslims, but an influential Islamic group said it would launch a legal challenge.
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Dublin -
Ireland voted by an overwhelming majority to relax its constitutional restriction on divorce, results showed Sunday, the latest in a series of reforms to modernise the charter of the once devoutly Catholic nation.
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Dublin -
Ireland will hold a referendum in May on relaxing its strict divorce laws, the government said Tuesday, the latest vote aimed at liberalising social rules in the Catholic country.
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Manila -
Around 2,000 Roman Catholic Filipinos protested in Manila on Saturday against a push to legalise divorce, with church groups also using the "Walk for Life" march to slam President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drugs war.
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Rome -
Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi won an appeal against paying his ex-wife alimony on Thursday, as a court told Veronica Lario to repay cheques totalling some 60 million euros ($70 million).
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Cairo -
An Indian court's decision on Tuesday to ban Islamic instant divorces highlighted a controversial practice that is disputed in Muslim countries and already banned in some.
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New Delhi -
India's highest court Thursday began considering the legality of a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to leave their wives instantly by reciting the word "divorce" three times.
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New Delhi -
India's highest court Thursday began considering the legality of a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to leave their wives instantly by reciting the word "divorce" three times.
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New Delhi -
India's highest court Thursday began considering the legality of a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to leave their wives instantly by reciting the word "divorce" three times.
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This week’s releases include a skillfully constructed horror movie; a definitive director’s cut; a sharp and witty look at separation; and a comedy classic from the "Sultan of Sleaze."
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Jalalabad -
When Nadia's heroin addict husband began assaulting her with a metal rod, she did something unthinkable for many women in Afghanistan -- she left him.
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Cannes -
The dating show boom that has swept the world's television screens since the success of "Married at First Sight" may be coming to an end, experts predict.Now it is time to get divorced.
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Jackson -
Domestic violence is not grounds for divorce in Mississippi, where a Republican lawmaker, who is also a Baptist preacher, has rejected a bill that would have brought divorce law in the deeply religious state in line with the rest of the nation.
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Los Angeles -
Brad Pitt has accused Angelina Jolie of compromising their children's privacy and is asking a judge to seal details about the youngsters emerging from the couple's divorce, court papers showed Thursday.
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Rome -
The number of divorces in Italy surged by more than half last year after the enactment of legislation making it easier and quicker to end failed marriages.
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Bejing -
Don't get mad, get your opponent to surrender voluntarily: when Mrs Wang discovered her husband had been cheating on her for several years, she called in an elite team of Chinese "mistress hunters".
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Brussels -
A British exit from the European Union would plunge the two parties into a messy divorce and force them to build a new relationship after a long marriage.
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Vatican City -
Vatican protocol has been rewritten to enable divorced Catholic leaders and their new spouses to be received jointly by Pope Francis, Holy See sources confirmed on Thursday.
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Vatican City -
Pope Francis has told bishops taking part in a Church review of family teachings that its stance on the indissolubility of marriage was not up for discussion, despite hopes of an opening towards remarried divorced people.
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New York -
New York Catholics basking in the glow of Pope Francis's recent visit are hoping that the imminent synod at the Vatican will make remarried divorcees more accepted by the church.
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A man in China won hundreds of thousands of dollars after purchasing a lottery ticket. he then picked up his winnings, but first he divorced his wife.
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Vatican City -
Nearly half a million Catholics have signed a petition urging Pope Francis to condemn same sex unions as unnatural and rule out allowing divorced believers who remarry to receive communion, organisers claim.
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Lagos -
A Nigerian court granted a 57-year-old man a divorce after hearing that his wife often brought his meals to him too late in the evening, local media reported on Thursday.
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On August 3, it was announced that No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani and her husband, Gavin Rossdale, have filed for divorce.
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Country music's power-couple, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, are calling it quits after four years of marriage. They have filed for divorce.
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Detroit -
A trio of Detroit, Mich. siblings have been ordered to a juvenile detention facility for reportedly refusing to dine with their Dad.
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Yerevan -
A woman, who gave birth to a son with Down syndrome, filed for divorce from her husband because she wanted to abandon the baby but her husband refused. She wanted to abandon the baby because she thought keeping him would bring "shame" to her family.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. during a speech in Urbana, Illinois, in 2007 Dschwen
Couples that argue about money are at high risk for divorce, finds researchers. Morguefile
Marriage is losing ground with Americans old and young Flickr
EXPENSIVE TASTES: Russian Federation billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has been ordered to pay his wife, Elena, $4.5 billion in divorce proceedings. The decision by a court in Geneva is expected to be appealed. Franck Nataf/Wikimedia Commons
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