| Acrimony = Alimony | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 12:45:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | The greater the potential settlement, the nastier the pre-court wrangling: that seems to be the rule for today's celebrity splits. But the Mills-McCartney divorce is setting new standards of abuse. Andrew Alderson and Roya Nikkhah explain why The carefully devised plan swung into action shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday. Someone with a sense of mischief and perhaps a thirst for revenge fed eight pieces of A4 paper into a fax machine. .... | |
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| | | Electronic control is slave trade | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:45:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Controlling people via an 'Automatic Number Plate Recognition' system, is based on information they 'voluntarily' have been forced to give earlier. Decency, privacy and respect seem to have gone with the wind howling around the globe in the name of the US junta's fake 'security' for their terror. ID? THE TRAFFIC COPS KNEW EVERYTHING 1.5 MILLION CAR OWNERS? - ''WE'LL HAVE TO CHECK BECAUSE WE KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THEM.'' Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent (FPF) Rotterdam, Nov. 10th 2006 - Driving from the Swedish capital Stockholm to Arlanda International airport to pick up a friend, I was stopped by patrolling police. They were friendly, but I wondered why they used my family name to wish me good morning? It showed that in the five minutes they'd been driving behind me, they - via a police computer check of the license plates on my car - knew exactly who I was.... | |
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| | | Billie Jean King holds court | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 10:46:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | INDIAN WELLS - Tennis legend and activist Billie Jean King is in Indian Wells this week for the World Team Tennis Rec League National Championship at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. She took time out to talk about a myriad of topics, including her father, Bill Moffitt, passing away and the USTA National Tennis Center being named after her. King also talks about her first year as an investor in the Pacific Life Open, and how the world has changed from 1981, when a messy alimony lawsuit outed her lesbian relationship with a secretary and cost her all of her lucrative endorsement deals. Q. What brings you to the desert? A. One, I'm here for the 2006 World Team Tennis Rec League Championships, which I try to make every year. This year, we're having it at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.... | |
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| | | Acrimony is equal to Alimony | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:45:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | The carefully devised plan swung into action shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday. Someone with a sense of mischief and perhaps a thirst for revenge fed eight pieces of A4 paper into a fax machine.The material, photocopies of confidential legal documents, was dispatched to two news organisations, the Press Association and Bloomberg. The sender clearly hoped that the lurid claims would be on their way to every newspaper and media group in the land. Sensational claims The claims in the divorce papers were sensational: they alleged that Sir Paul McCartney, the former Beatle, was a drunken, drugged-up wife-beater and uncaring father. It was even claimed that, in a drunken rage, he had stabbed his disabled wife, Heather Mills McCartney, with a broken wine glass.In another alleged attack, while Mills McCartney was pregnant, Sir Paul was said to have pushed her into a bath in a hotel room in Rome.... | |
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| | | Alimony rules often can be misunderstood | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:45:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | Few topics will start a war more quickly between divorcing spouses than alimony. However, in this practitioner's experience, alimony is usually very much misunderstood. Let's try and shed some light on the subject. Payer and recipient The key issue with alimony is its taxability. Alimony, as defined by the tax law, is tax deductible by the payer and taxable to the recipient. For example, let's assume that in connection with Bob and Suzy's divorce, which was finalized in September, the court awards Suzie $1,000 per month as alimony. In 2006 Bob actually pays Suzy for three months, October, November and December. Suzy must include in her taxable income for 2006 $3,000. Bob can deduct $3,000 on his 2006 income tax return.In many situations there are several kinds of payments awarded in a divorce.... | |
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| | | What can private eyes do when watching you? | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:45:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | Hewlett-Packard has shone a light on the gray world of snooping. But big corporations aren't the only ones who hire private eyes. In fact, private detectives say about half of their clients are individuals with domestic situations -- the classic case being the scorned spouse trying to out the cheating spouse. Private detectives also get hired to find deadbeat parents behind on child support and to investigate whether an ex-spouse is living with someone and not entitled to receive alimony. The other half of their work is corporate -- i.e. working for insurers trying to show people are faking disabilities or injuries, or for companies that suspect a worker of stealing. HP, a Silicon Valley firm best known for its printers, and the private investigators it hired to find a leak, might have gone too far.... | |
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| | | Rockets owner's divorce kept secret | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:45:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — The divorce of Leslie Alexander, billionaire owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team, is one of a handful of local divorces sealed and excised from public view for years as if it never existed. In 2003, Alexander split with Nanci, his wife of more than 30 years, after agreeing to pay her $150 million. The couple asked that their entire divorce file be sealed, and a senior circuit judge, Allen Kornblum, obliged. The order stood until last week when another circuit court judge, Art Wroble, ruled it was sealed improperly and ordered the Alexanders' divorce opened. The ruling comes in the wake of reports about supersealed cases being kept around Florida, including divorces and civil suits of the rich and connected — contrary to the state's public records law and the spirit of openness at every courthouse door.... | |
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| | | Around South Florida | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 12:45:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | The divorce of Leslie Alexander, billionaire owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team, was one of a handful of Palm Beach County divorces sealed and excised from public view for years as if it never existed -- until last week. Circuit Judge Art Wroble ruled it was sealed improperly in 2003 and ordered it opened. The ruling comes in the wake of reports about such super-sealed cases around Florida, including divorces and civil suits of the rich and connected -- contrary to the state's public records law. In 2003, Alexander split with Nanci, his wife of more than 30 years, after agreeing to pay her $150 million. The settlement was divided into $115 million in cash -- $40 million paid once the divorce was finalized -- and $35 million in assets, including the couple's Boca Raton home, cars and Sublime, a vegetarian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale.... | |
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| | | Prenuptial Agreements Ruled Not Valid if are Unfair to Either Partner | | Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 6:45:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | In a case that originated in western Kentucky, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that prenuptial agreements are not valid if they're unfair to either the wife or the husband. The ruling yesterday overturned a lower court ruling in the 2002 divorce of David and Paula Lane in McCracken Circuit Court. The Court of Appeals had ruled that their prenuptial agreement was valid and that Paula Lane was not entitled to alimony payments from her husband. David Lane was a successful stockbroker for Edward D. Jones. David Lane now lives in Saint Louis while Paula Lane lives in Fort Myers, Florida. Supreme Court Justice Bill Graves of Paducah says that a marriage is not strictly a business deal and that there is value in what the wife does to raise the kids and support her husband.... | |
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| | | Ethiopia: EWLA Branch Ofice Provides Free Counseling, Legal Services for 666 Women | | Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:45:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Dire Dawa Branch Office of Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) said it has provided free counseling and legal services for 666 women during the last budget year. Branch Office Head Etenesh Kassa told WIC that the women who benefited from the services during the period were from East and West Hararghe zones, Dire Dawa Provisional Administration, Somali and Harari states. She said the cases mainly focused on marriage dispute, alimony, abduction, rape, sexual harassment and other related complaints. .... | |
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