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In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
Controversy arose out of the safe-haven law enacted in Nebraska in July 2008: the Nebraska law in force at the time was interpreted to define a child as anyone under 18, [9] and resulted in the desertion of children older than infants, some as old as teenage years. [10] [11] Under the prior version of the law, at least 35 children were dropped ...
Lenore Weitzman's 1985 book The Divorce Revolution, using data from California in 1977-78, reported that one year after divorce, the standard of living for women declined 73%, compared with an increase of 42% for men. Richard Peterson calls Weitzman's methodology into question, using the same data to calculate a 27% decrease for women and a 10% ...
The 2004 survey found that 93% of divorce cases were petitioned by wives, very few of which were contested. 53% of divorces were marriages that had lasted 10 to 15 years, with 40% ending after 5 to 10 years. The first 5 years are relatively divorce-free, and if a marriage survives more than 20 years it is unlikely to end in divorce.
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Davis's story exemplifies some of the perils of "gray divorce," which describes spouses separating after age 50. While overall divorce rates in the U.S. have fallen over the past 20 years, they ...
Since 1989, putative fathers in Australia can recover child support payments for children that are not their own. [9]In 2002, the Victorian County Court awarded Liam Neale Magill $70,000 compensation for damages and economic loss against his ex-wife, Meredith Magill as a result of DNA testing in 2000 that showed only one of three children he was paying support for was genetically his. [10]
A hush-hush split. Good Morning America meteorologist Rob Marciano’s wife, Eryn Marciano, filed for divorce from the television personality after 11 years of marriage, Us Weekly can confirm.