So many of my divorce clients describe the anti-climactic feelings they experience when they receive their divorce decree in the mail. I have heard several different divorce practitioners and mental health professional recommend a ceremony of sorts to mark the event. After all, this is a the closing of an important chapter in one’s life. Marking the occasion is a great idea. I often recommend a walk on the beach or writing an entry in a diary or journal. Some of these ideas are a bit off the wall though. I wonder what everyone else thinks! 😉 Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
This article on Huffington Post about Beth Shak’s $1 million shoe collection is quite illustrative.
A person who spends that kind of money on shoes should not at all be surprised that it comes up in the divorce. The reality is that it is an asset with value. That it is some woman’s shoe collection is not the point. If they have value, they need to be divided. In fact, in some states including California, spending that kind of money during the marriage no matter what the asset could be a breach of fiduciary duty. You’re not allowed to have “secret rooms” full of cash without sharing it with the ex… so why a shoe collection? Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Every now and then I will get involved in a negotiation where one of the parties struggles with the concept of negotiating and sharing. Â Such a person wants all of what he or she wants and is simply unwilling to compromise or share in any way. Â Obviously that makes my job harder.
I came across this video about a negotiation over waffles that pretty much sums it up for me.
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I really got a kick out of this old Tom Lehrer song, “When You Are Old and Grey.”  It seems that I have had a number of cases where folks may have lost their agility.   😉
So it’s official. Time Magazine’s Hillary Brenhouse reports that folks living in Tajikistan can no longer divorce their spouse by text message. Apparently, in old Sunni Islam tradition, you can divorce your spouse by delivering the “triple talaq“. Â Just deliver the phrase, “I divorce you,” to your estranged spouse and “POOF” you have a divorce. Â (I note that only men get to employ this convenient method for divorce.) Â In spite of its utility and simplicity, it has been outlawed in many of the majority islamic country’s including Turkey, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia. Â In India, according to Brenhouse, a “triple talaq” won’t get a person very far unless it also accompanies arbitration and reconciliation.
Now in the digital age, it seems, Tajik men have been delivering their talaqs via text message.  Sensing that the divorce by text message is just too easy, Abdrakhim Kholikov, the head of the Tajik state religious affairs committee, has declared that sending text messages containing a triple talaq is a  breach of Islamic law.  Sigh… no more divorce by text message.
The triple talaq reminds me of the Klingon Divorce video I posted from Youtube last month. Â If divorce were this easy, I would need to find a new line of work.
