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We spend a lot of time discussing the downfall of high-profile marriages, looking for the missteps that strain relationships and turn divorces into costly, drawn-out battles. But we often lose sight of the wisdom to be gleaned from successful celebrity couples. After all, these relationships...

Lori Loughlin, who rose to fame playing Aunt Becky on Full House, is ending her 29-year marriage to Mossimo Giannulli. The split comes roughly six years after both served months in prison for their roles in the college-admission scandal, after paying $500,000 to facilitate their daughters’...

Couples commonly use prenuptial agreements to control how their finances are managed. While properly executed prenups are usually enforced in New York and other states,
they are notoriously fragile across international borders. This is a concern for international or dual citizen couples in...

Nobody enters a high-stakes divorce expecting every decision to be easy. Disputes over businesses, vacation homes, art collections, investment portfolios, and other significant assets are often unavoidable.
Ironically, intelligence isn't always an advantage during divorce. The qualities that...

Celebrity marriages are fraught with challenges, but the central issue here is that career demands can undermine a union even when neither spouse commits marital misconduct. Recent news about actress actress Margaret Qualley and musician/producer Jack Antonoff’s split, who have been married...

A high-profile, pseudo-celebrity divorce in Los Angeles is showing how costs multiply when parties fail to comply with a judge’s orders. According to msn.com, DeAnna Pappas, an alum of The Bachelorette, “scored a six-figure win after a Los Angeles judge ordered [her ex-husband Stephen]...

Gone are the days when simply getting a divorce could ruin a person’s reputation. Outside of the strictest religious circles, divorce today is viewed as a personal decision on a deeply private matter. Society generally acknowledges that upstanding people get divorced for perfectly valid...

When divorce proceedings last five times as long as the marriage, we might wonder whether one or both of the parties isn’t ready to let go. This raises a significant irony: legal processes meant to finalize a dissolution can actually keep a couple entangled for as long as they find issues to...

Movie fans might follow celebrity divorces for the salacious details, but for divorce lawyers or anyone considering dissolving their marriage, the proceedings are often instructive. These cases serve up high-stakes drama involving legal issues pertinent to many couples, especially those with a...

Reality television has a way of turning private pain into prime-time content. But when the cameras catch a celebrity mid-crisis before the lawyers have even filed the fallout can be swift, costly, and deeply instructive. That’s exactly what’s unfolding with Jessi Draper, star of...