Word: robbings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Then there are fathers like fiftysomething Sydney executive Rob (his real name and other particulars cannot be published for legal reasons), who's spent more than $A20,000 on legal fees trying to secure just that result. Over dinner a few years ago, Rob's wife stunned him by announcing she wanted to end their 11-year marriage. He now has a new partner and his ex-wife has remarried, and they're still wrangling over how often he sees the kids - a teenage boy and a little girl. Rob says his ex-wife has tried to demonize...
...wretched world of the non-custodial parent, Rob's ex-wife hasn't been his only source of frustration. A bungle by his solicitors, he says, locked him into making child support payments that rose if his income increased, but stayed the same if it fell. Sure enough, he was retrenched from his high-paying job and for a few months received unemployment benefits. Filing for bankruptcy was an option, but there was a catch. After five years a bankrupt receives automatic discharge from nearly all debts, though one exception is child support. Fortunately, Rob landed...
...appearances a reasonable man, Rob says in many areas of life women doubtless feel powerless, but in the Family Court the opposite is true. More than once, he says, a judge has given his ex-wife more than she's asked for. "The mother is seen as the nurturer," he says. The attitude is, "she knows how to relate to children, while fathers...
Laura Crimaldi, a general assignment reporter for the Boston Herald, said she couldn’t think of any recent campus news stories that had garnered such extensive national media attention. But Rob Tomsho of the Wall Street Journal noted that comparably acrimonious spats between college presidents and faculty members had erupted recently at Baylor University—where President Robert B. Sloan Jr. resigned last month after two faculty votes of “no confidence”—and University of Southern Mississippi, where President Shelby Thames’ effort to fire two tenured professors touched...
...didn’t play my normal style game tonight,” Lederman said of his shifts with classmate Rob Flynn and freshman Tyler Magura, “but it was something that I had to do. That’s the type of line that is, and it worked...