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In Miramar, FL a man and 17 fellow coworkers won the lottery. After winning nearly half a million dollars, he skipped town. The news of the co-workers winning the lottery was pretty big, but the husband decided not to tell his wife about it. She confronted him and he left shortly after. He didn't leave [...]
Dwight Howard sued the mother of his 2-year-old son for $9.2 million after comments she wrote online. He also sued to increase the custody of his son. She is now fighting back against this. Although, she apologized for some of the comments she posted on her twitter, she is asking for court protection of her [...]
A recent study has shown that individuals in blue-collar industries have been hit especially hard by the recession, and divorce rates among this demographic have risen significantly in recent months. Job losses have hit men the hardest, accounting for nearly 75% of the total unemployment claims. Where nearly 5% of college-educated men reported layoffs and [...]
A 3-year-old boy from Florida went missing two weekends ago in the midst of a custody battle. The boys mother pleaded tearfully for people to pray she gets her son back. She is concerned that the boy's father fled with the toddler by boat. Dec. 1, the toddlers father has a court supervised visit with [...]
The lead singer for erstwhile '80s hair metal band the Bulletboys was arrested on the 13th for non-payment of child support requirements. Marq Torien, the lead singer of the Bulletboys, was arrested in Pasco County, Florida two weeks ago for repeated failure to make his court-ordered child support payments. The Bulletboys were briefly popular in [...]
A Florida interest group has hired lobbyists to push state legislators to enact a cap on alimony payments, which would limit alimony to a mere three years. This would mean that dependent former spouses would no longer receive support payments after they had been divorced for three years. The interest group believes that alimony as [...]
Former Orlando Magic Center Shaquille O'Neal and his wife are getting a divorce. O'Neal's wife filed for the divorce in California, citing irreconcilable differences. According to reports, the O'Neals and their four children had been living in Florida, but Shaunie moved with the children to Los Angeles. The couple had originally announced they were getting [...]
According to a new report compiled and released by the US Census Bureau and the Department of Health and Human Services, only about half of the nation's custodial parents are receiving the full amount of child support payments which they're owed. The report found that 46.8% of single parents owed child support received the full [...]
As the recession continues, lawyers across the country are seeing a marked increase in the number of people requesting modifications to their child support and alimony agreements. The unemployment rate for men is substantially larger than the one for women, with men facing a 9.8% unemployment rate compared to 7.5% unemployment rate for women. Furthermore, [...]
The 25-year-old father of missing Florida girl Haleigh Cummings has filed for divorce from his 17-year-old wife, an important witness in the case. According to the divorce papers, Ronald Cummings is citing irreconcilable differences as being the cause for his divorce from Misty Cummings. The young wife was the last to see Haleigh, who went [...]
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