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Recent Posts from Family Law Guy

• McCourts: Minding (And Dividing) The Family Store

  Jamie McCourt has now filed her action for dissolution, along with a request for somewhere between $300,000 and $500,000 per month in spousal support (depending on whether she immediately gets back all her perks of…

• Kim Kardashian Agrees With Me: Get a Pre-marital Agreement!

  I just couldn't resist writing the headline. Here's the story.

• Surprisingly, Los Angles is NOT the Divorce Capital!

  In fact, California's not really in the running. Looks like Indiana and Florida are the big contenders.

• How To Maximize Your Parenting In California

  My advice on:How To Maximize Your Parenting In California - Avvo.comShared via AddThis

• We're saying the same thing; we're just saying it differently

  My learned colleague Mark Chinn** from Jackson, MS, posted a deliberately provocative title to his blog this week: said Mark: "If you get a prenuptial agreement in the days before the marriage, don’t sign it!"My…

• Teenagers, the State and Religion: do hard cases make bad law?

  Rifqa Bary, who's seventeen, ran away from her parents in Columbus, Ohio, and turned up in Orlando, Florida, under the "care"of a pastor whom she met over the internet. The pastor held a press conference…

• Divorce Can Make You Sick

  This just in: divorcing is often so stressful that it will make you sick.

• Pre-Nups in Britain? Maybe so!

  It appears that a sea-change in British family law may happening, and that British courts may begin recognizing some pre-marital agreements as valid.

• Divorce, Tabloid News, and the First Amendment

  The Connecticut Supreme Court has held that once someone with a "celebrity divorce" signs an agreement that gives away the right to blab about the divorce to the media, in exchange for money from her…

• A Cup of Coffee on the Way, Part 3: Pre-Marital Agreements: Romance-Killer or Marriage Insurance?

  Back in February, I started down a path of discussing what we, as a society and as a state, intended when we set up our "family law" and rules, and how, and whether, that should…