Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus Evelyn Anderson, 82, a resident of the mammoth Sun City retirement community outside Phoenix, paid an astonishing $10,562 last year to a repairman who fixed some sprinklers and, while at it, wangled a loan with a phony sob story. "I felt sorry for him, going through a divorce...
PAST AS PROLOGUE If your parents divorce, you're also more likely to do so. Now a study finds that if you experience more than one divorce as a kid, you're four times as likely to go through multiple marriages as an adult.
Last week, when a North Carolina woman successfully sued her husband's lover for wrecking their marriage, it gave the current national recalculation of the costs of divorce a new bottom line. Lawyers have a word for it. They call these "heart-balm" cases, the heart being the injured party...
While the verdict may have come as balm to the hearts of desperate summer talk-show hosts, spurned spouses and anti-divorce activists, it's unlikely to start a trend. The vast majority of states that have rejected such suits aren't likely to start allowing them again, says Professor...
If Kramer's reputation is stale, Coe's is forgotten, though as producer of Philco Playhouse and later for Playhouse 90, he was the primo impresario of TV drama. Jon Krampner's engrossing The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television (Rutgers University Press; 243...