The mother of pop singer Miley Cyrus has filed for divorce from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus.
Multi-platinum selling country singer Billy Ray, 51, is best known for his worldwide hit single Achy Breaky Heart. He marred Leticia ‘Tish’ Finley in December 1993 and the
A German arguing with with his ex-wife about maintenance payments gave a passing schoolboy €185 (£157), news site The Local reports.
The man told the youngster, waiting with a friend in the Bavarian town of Straubing, “you can keep the money” before wandering off.
Many a man battling maintenance claims from former wives will cheer at a Court of Appeal. ruling released today.
A former aid worker who attempted to claim maintenance from the now wealthy husband she divorced more than twenty years ago has lost her case. In an unanimous ruling, the
The founder of green energy company Ecotricity is fighting a claim for maintenance from the wife he divorced more than 20 years ago.
Dale Vince, now 51, founded the successful wind energy supplier in 1995, three years after completing his divorce from Kathleen Wyatt. The company, based in in Stroud,
MEPs have approved final amends to legislation surrounding the ‘Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance’.
This multinational treaty will now come into force across the European Union, other than in
The ex-wife of property developer Scot Young has reacted angrily to his release from prison.
Young, now 51, received a six month jail sentence for contempt of court in January after failing to reveal court-ordered financial details in a long-running divorce dispute with
A woman has failed in her application for maintenance from the husband she divorced almost 20 years ago.
T v T concerned a couple who married in 1985, when both were in their early 20s. They had one child, now of university age, but the couple separated in 1991.
Legislators in Florida are on the verge of ending lifetime alimony (maintenance) awards, according to newspaper the Sun Sentinel.
Senate Bill 718 was passed by the Florida Senate last week and is expected to come up before both
A draft bill currently proceeding through the Florida Senate could prohibit the application of foreign law in family cases across the state.
If passed into statute, Senate Bill 58 – Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases –
A successful footballer playing for a UK team has been ordered to help the mother of his child in Africa move into more secure accommodation.
The mother had returned to her home country after the end of her relationship with the
Mexican singer and actress Paulina Rubio has reached a divorce settlement with former husband Nicolás Vallejo Nájera, known as ‘Colate’.
The couple have agreed to share custody of their two year old son Andrea Nicholas, and PR
The Bombay High Court has ordered an Indian man to pay 500,000 rupees (5 lakh or £6000) to his 28 year old daughter, more than two decades after he divorced her mother.
The woman had appealed an earlier family court dismissal of her claim for financial help
Chester County Court has granted an appeal against a judgment that courts do not have the authority to order the repayment of overpaid maintenance unless a legal order is in place.
G v P concerned a divorced couple. In July 2005, they reached a settlement in which they
Wives who accept lump sum payments as a settlement in divorce claims cannot return to court later if their former husband begins earning more, the Bombay High Court has ruled.
The court was considering an appeal by a woman who had sought more maintenance from
Today the Law Commission opens its supplementary consultation on needs and non-matrimonial property.
Spousal maintenance is the most contentious area in family finance. Ex-husbands bitterly resent paying it and ex-wives fight tooth and nail to keep it. It is a tax-free income that some see as a continuing windfall and others a hard-earned necessity.
The recent case of Vaughan v Vaughan, which involved an elderly divorced couple and made the news while I was away on holiday last week, has led me to wonder. How should a husband divvy up the spoils of a lifetime between his former wife and his …
Baroness Deech holds some strong views about divorce and financial settlements. The Times has reported that the academic lawyer, who chairs the Bar Standards Board, is to give a series of lectures this week. Her focus: the thorny issue of who gets …
Ivana Trump said, famously: “Don’t get mad. Get everything!” It appears that Julia McFarlane, the former wife of high-flying accountant Kenneth McFarlane, has taken these words to heart. The judgment in the latest installment of …
From the Guardian‘s commentisfree… blog, 18/03/2008. Heather Mills may have done well out of her marriage to Paul McCartney. But to get there the couple waged a vicious and unnecessary war By Marilyn Stowe Millions of spectators round …
Settle your case on a continuing maintenance basis, and it can come back to haunt you… For many people, a financial settlement represents the final chapter in a divorce. Generally, it comes to all concerned as a huge relief. Parties can begin …
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