divorce
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Sophia Bush talks infertility, divorce and relationship with soccer star Ashlyn Harris in a new essay: ‘I have never operated out of more integrity in my life.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Patsy Wilcox had reluctantly agreed to a divorce after Rantzen became pregnant, and Rantzen and Wilcox went on to marry in 1977.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
But he’s perfect for Schill: He will be sent to Nicholas and Serena on the eve of the divorce filing, be hired, and really be working as a mole for Cathcarts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
I’ve heard that money is the No. 1 cause of divorce, and I don’t want that to happen to us.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
And that's precisely why it was so shocking when I learned my mom and dad had gotten a divorce.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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After two humiliating divorces, Opal has made the salvation of her oafish children her primary concern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
It's a sizeable sum to part with when divorces can be expensive.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The movie kicks off as a casual portrait of the vacant nouveau riche lifestyles of the mini-oligarchs: fancy dinners, divorces, bathroom gossip.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
O’Neill listened carefully while I went through Jesse’s story: his family’s involvement in a religious cult when he was young, the three divorces he’d lived through, his father’s illness.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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She is divorced and has two adult children in their early 20s.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
After her husband divorced her a few years later, she left his child-support payments as a pile of cash on the table and stopped cooking the children’s meals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"We measured outcomes like whether someone became employed or unemployed, whether they got married or divorced, and standard indicators of mental health," he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The royal couple had divorced in August 1996.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Isabella doesn’t talk a lot about her parents, but I’m pretty sure her mom is the one who wanted to get divorced.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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Finally, the Sun splashes on the marriage breakup of Katie Price and her "conman hubby", as the paper puts it, with: "Katie: I'm divorcing you, Lee."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Yes, Tom and I are divorcing, and it is extremely sad,” she said, beginning to cry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
According to the law offices of Christopher Le, divorcing for the sole purpose of obtaining benefits may be viewed as an attempt to manipulate the system.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
People 50 or older now make up nearly 40% of the divorcing population, up from just 8% in 1990, according to research from Bowling Green State University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
“Your husband was offered his freedom and his farm back—” My heart leapt! “—if he proved his loyalty to El Jefe by divorcing his Mirabal wife.”
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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