Last Wednesday, women’s rights advocates Gabriela Women’s party refiled a bill calling for the legalisation of divorce in the Philippines.
Gabriela, which describes itself as a “sectoral party dedicated to promoting the rights of Filipino women through participation in the country’s electoral system and organs of governance”, first filed... Read More
Last month, former Pirelli model Christina Estrada made headlines across the world after a High Court judge awarded her a cool £53 million in her divorce from the recently deceased Saudi multimillionaire, Dr Walid Juffali.
Roberts J ordered Dr Juffali to pay the settlement within three weeks of the judgment, but the terminally ill oil tycoon... Read More
Minneapolis Star Tribune editors are seeking the public release of court records from late musician Prince’s 2006 divorce from his second wife, Manuela Testolini.
Prince and Ms Testolini, a Toronto business woman, married in a private ceremony in 2001, after meeting whilst Ms Testolini was an employee of the star’s charitable foundation. After... Read More
A new study published in the American Sociological Review has found that heterosexual marriages in which the husband does not work full-time face greater risk of ending in divorce. Harvard sociologist Alexandra Killewald examined 6,309 couples married between 1968 and 2013 in order to discover "whether marital stability is primarily... Read More
Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin have finalised their divorce, over two years after they announced their separation.
Paltrow and Martin famously called their separation a ‘conscious uncoupling’ in a statement released on Paltrow’s lifestyle website, Goop. The term refers to a spiritual journey undertaken... Read More