divorce
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My divorce had unfolded five years prior, and Graham was a child of divorce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Experts and couples interviewed by AFP spoke of a combination of factors, including longer educations and growing professional ambitions among women, along with rising divorce rates and financial strain on young professionals.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Linda and Razzell were in the midst of getting a divorce at the time and Linda had visited a local bank with a court order to freeze his accounts the week before she disappeared.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
It serves not only as a beautiful backdrop, but also as the place where the struggling coach turns his own life around in the wake of a difficult divorce.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Eventually, my dad returned with his wallet, and the divorce went off without any more hitches.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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I’ve also heard from various people telling me their whole financial picture, down to the pennies in their accounts, and the ins and outs of their divorces, estate fights and bad relationships with financial professionals.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
I think a lot of us feel like we grew up with Hilary, so all of her music resonated with us then, and now, now that we’re older, through relationships or divorces or motherhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Both stars finalised divorces from their former partners during their time together.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Many painted a picture of "destroyed" lives: divorces, losing custody of their children, prison, psychiatric hospitals, and astronomical medical bills in the hope of regaining "a normal, meaningful life."
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
But those were a couple of divorces and a serious illness ago, and the son looking over his shoulder at the mounted snapshots now had little in common with the boy in the pictures.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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The 36-year-old was born in Birkenhead but moved to Wales with his mother Christine after his parents divorced when he was two.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Don’t miss: If I marry my girlfriend, 67, will she lose her Supplemental Security Income and divorced spouse benefits?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Now divorced, Miller and Emily Moreno are involved in a custody battle over their 2-year-old daughter.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
In 1957 Belafonte divorced his wife, Marguerite, who already was raising their two children single-handedly, and married Julie Robinson, a white dancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“My parents got divorced last year,” June said.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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“Yes, Tom and I are divorcing, and it is extremely sad,” she said, beginning to cry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
May 2021: Bill and Melinda French Gates announce they are divorcing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Keep in mind that divorcing solely for the purpose of qualifying for higher benefits may raise legal concerns if the divorce is not genuine.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
But divorcing a film like this from the times in which we’re absorbing it is short of impossible, no matter how much of an escape it provides for 109 minutes.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
I had an aunt who went as far as divorcing her husband and briefly marrying an American family friend so that she could get a green card.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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