Word: felder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are also grace notes, as in how time and communication can resolve dicey situations. At first Kim Felder, a California family recruiter for adoptions with one biological child, encountered what she perceived as resistance from her parents to her intention to adopt transracially. She and her husband Carl decided to go ahead with the adoption and limit contact with Kim's parents. The following day, her parents explained that they were reacting to the prejudice they had faced as Italian immigrants--an experience they didn't want for their daughter. "They weren't prejudiced--they wanted to protect...
...frequent are choices to be examined through a new perspective. And they are especially important to children from disadvantaged minority backgrounds. "You must surround them with people who look like them so they know they are as good as they can be and know what they can do," says Felder...
...would never doubt my old buddy. But just to be certain we were dealing with a national phenomenon here and not a Beaverton-centric statistical anomaly, I checked with Raoul Felder, one of New York's better-known divorce lawyers (he handled the off-line antinuptials of Robin Givens as well as those of the ex-missuses of Frank Gifford, David Susskind and Carl Sagan). "I have a number of those things where they meet on the Net and talk dirty and arrange rendezvous," confirms Felder. In fact, he says, his firm has handled "50 or so. Easily...
...worked in the same office; it was a much simpler time), I think I understand what's going on here. Sex is all in the head, and there's nothing that connects two brains better, without visual distractions, than a good computer connection. That's why I think Felder, the divorce king, is kidding himself if he thinks the next logical step will be good for business. "What's going to happen when you get video E-mail?" he wonders. That's easy. Online divorce will go out of fashion in a big hurry...
...upper-class women, does a big chunk of money necessarily make up for the loss of social status. "It's more than just divorce from the husband," explains Manhattan lawyer Raoul Felder, whose clients have included Mrs. Martin Scorsese, Mrs. Huntington Hartford and Mrs. Mike Tyson, and who is currently representing the seventh Mr. Elizabeth Taylor, Larry Fortensky. "It's divorce from the star aura. I've seen the diaries that some of these first wives kept when they were married: 'We're meeting Dr. Kissinger here. Dinner at Martha Stewart's.' And suddenly it all ends. People gravitate toward...