Los Angeles: It always seemed more than a little weird, didn't it? The whirlwind romance of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes with its very public, very emphatic proclamations of love. It all occurred too quickly and too loudly to seem real. Now, after nearly six years of marriage, Holmes is divorcing Cruise. She filed the papers on Thursday, said Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields. The two share a daughter, 6-year-old Suri,...
12:14 PM, Jun 30, 2012
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London: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to 'married' recently, but his social-networking website is causing a third of all divorces, a new UK survey has claimed. According to a the survey, feuding couples are increasingly complaining about their spouse's behaviour on Facebook in divorce filings, with inappropriate messages to the opposite sex being the biggest cause for complaint. More than 33 per cent of divorces last year listed...
05:06 PM, May 24, 2012
London: Actress Demi Moore has signed up for her first film since a medical emergency put her career on hold in January. The 49-year-old has signed on to star in 'Very Good Girls', opposite former California school pals Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning. Moore will play Olsen's mother, reported Contactmusic. The actress was forced to pull out of Linda Lovelace biopic 'Lovelace' in January after falling ill at her home...
03:38 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Amid the opposition demand to make divorce more women-friendly, the government on Thursday approved fresh amendments in a bill pending in Rajya Sabha to give the wife a clearly defined share in husband's immovable residential property. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took up new amendments to the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha earlier this month. The government...
09:59 PM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday observed that married women should take a cue from goddess Sita, who followed her husband Lord Ram even during his exile, while hearing a divorce petition filed by a man on ground that his wife is unwilling to relocate to his new place of work. "A wife should be like goddess Sita who left everything and followed her husband Lord Ram to a...
10:21 PM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that refusal by a wife to conceive a child because of family's financial instability could not be used as a ground for divorce by her husband. "Also, not knowing how to cook, not being religious, not parting with salary and not folding clothes properly," could not be treated as grounds for divorce, ruled Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta. The bench was,...
07:16 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: A bill was on Monday introduced in the Rajya Sabha to amend existing laws to make divorce easier, with BJP opposing the legislation on the ground that certain provisions could be "dangerous" for women. Introducing the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, Law Minister Salman Khurshid said by amending the Hindu Marriage Act, 2007, and the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the government proposes to make divorce easier in case...
08:00 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Los Angeles: Marc Anthony has made his breakup from Jennifer Lopez official by filing for divorce months after the superstar couple announced their separation. The Latin crooner filed his petition Monday in Los Angeles. He cited irreconcilable differences but did not put additional details of the split, including the date he and Lopez separated, in the filing. The former couple announced they were ending their marriage in June after seven...
01:37 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court has ruled that life sentence can be a ground to grant divorce. Rejecting a Miscellaneous First Appeal by a husband serving life in a murder case, a division bench, headed by Justice KL Manjunath in its recent order said when the appellant is convicted for life, even the grounds of desertion have to be taken into account legally because the man cannot live with the...
03:56 AM, Apr 10, 2012
A new law now amends the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, makes divorce easier for the woman. ...
11:57 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Cabinet clears new marriage laws, tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, does making divorce easier benefit women?
12:18 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Willful denial of sex, including that on the first night after wedding, by either of the spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for dissolution of the marriage, the Delhi High Court has ruled. Justice Kailash Gambhir gave the verdict, upholding the lower court's decree of divorce to a man having a "sex-starved marriage" as his wife refused to have sexual intercourse with him on the...
09:24 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: A Bill seeking to give a woman a share in her husband's property was approved by the Union Cabinet on Friday. Apart from giving women the right to their husband's property, the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, also aims at giving rights to adopted children on par with biological off-springs. The cabinet meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, was introduced...
10:31 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Central government on Friday took some major decisions with regard to the Hindu Marriage Act, including making divorce easier, in a key Cabinet meeting. According to the decision of the Cabinet, the mandatory six-month clause for filing of divorce will now be waived off on grounds of irretrievable breakdown. The new clause also allows one-time settlement instead of monthly maintenance in case of divorce. The redrafted Marriage...
07:28 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Seattle: Facebook's automatic efforts to connect users through "friends" they may know recently led two Washington women to find out they were married to the same man, at the same time. That led to the man, corrections officer Alan L O'Neill, being slapped with bigamy charges. According to charging documents filed Thursday, O'Neill married a woman in 2001, moved out in 2009, changed his name and remarried without divorcing her....
10:05 AM, Mar 10, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thiruvananthapuram, the State capital, is the capital of divorce cases too, according to the data provided by the State Government. The district saw 6,000 divorce cases in 2011 in its two family courts, at Thiruvananthapuram and Nedumangad.From body odour to infidelity, anything can be a reason for separation, according to the data from various divorce cases filed last year. Majority of the cases sprout from the problems of adjustment...
11:14 AM, Mar 09, 2012
New York: Seal and Heidi Klum have announced that their storybook marriage is coming to the end of the runway. In a statement Sunday night, the power couple announced their separation after rumors swirled over the weekend that a divorce was imminent. "While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul searching we have decided to separate," the joint statement read. "We have...
12:12 PM, Jan 23, 2012
London: Social networking website Facebook has been blamed for one-third of divorces across the world, according to a law firm. The social network is increasingly being used as a source of evidence in divorce cases, the Daily Mail reported citing law firm Divorce-Online. The firm said it has seen a 50 per cent jump in the number of "behaviour-based" divorce petitions that contained the word "Facebook" over the past two...
12:39 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Los Angeles: British comedian and actor Russell Brand called it quits on his 14-month marriage to 'Teenage Dream' singer Katy Perry on Friday, filing for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. Brand, 36, star of the movie 'Get Him to the Greek', and U.S. pop star Perry, 27, met in 2008 and married on October, 2010 in a lavish wedding in India. The high profile wedding happened in Ranthambore....
12:23 PM, Dec 31, 2011
London: An Italian couple could create a new record of becoming the world's oldest divorcees, with the 99-year-old husband moving a court after he found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s, a report said. The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the discovery a few days before Christmas this...
01:06 PM, Dec 30, 2011
