And you thought The Matrix was complicated…
The divorce battle between trilogy cocreator Larry Wachowski and his estranged wife ratcheted up Tuesday, with the wife accusing the writer-director of reneging on a prenup.
The allegations were contained in a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, City News Service reported.
The suit by Thea Bloom claims she and Wachowski, now 38, “orally agreed that [they] were a ‘team’ and equal partne (more…)
Q: What custody options are available to divorcing couples?
A: Without a doubt, the most common questions newly single parents ask have to do with child custody: where are the kids going to live, with whom, and how much time will they be able to spend with each parent. Two important terms are legal custody and physical custody. The parent with legal custody is the one who’s legally responsible for making decisions about anything that affects the health, education and welfare of the children. The parent with physical custody is the one with whom the child lives. Unfortunately, too few fathers make a d (more…)
“Bare-Knuckle Negotiation: Savvy Tips and True Stories from the Master of Give-and-Take” by Raoul Felder. John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
When we hear about divorce cases involving high-profile couples in the entertainment, political or business world, odds are high that Raoul Felder, arguably America’s best-known matrimonial lawyer, has been retained by one of the parties. He has represented the spouses of Rudy Giuliani, Johnny Carson, Martin Scorsese and Liza Minelli, as well as countless rich and famous individuals from all over the world.
Felder has probably seen just about everything during his professional career, and Bare-Knuckle Negotiation offers an unbeatable combina (more…)
When Ray and Karen Parlour divorced in 2002 he offered to pay her £120,000 ($350,230) a year in maintenance - a large sum to most people, but he was earning a fortune as a football star for Arsenal and England.
So a judge branded his offer “thoroughly mean and unfair” and awarded Karen Parlour £1 million in cash and property, an income of £250,000 a year for herself and thousands more in maintenance for their three children.
But Karen Parlour was as sick as a parrot about the deal, and last week her lawyers told the Court of Appeal why. Ray owed his glittering career to his wife, they argued.
The couple had met when he was only a 17-year-old apprentice and she w (more…)