divorce
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You will know just how serious a contract it is when you try to divorce.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
"I divorce you and have divorced you," wrote her new husband.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
La La filed for divorce from the NBA star back in 2021, citing irreconcilable differences, according to TMZ, which first reported on the settlement Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Joyner on Wednesday framed the divorce as a forward-looking business move that will better position the two companies for growth in a rapidly changing healthcare market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
I did not know then that when I started sixth grade, I would be living in the state of divorce and New York.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
Ms. Carvajal and Ms. Ostler, both journalists, track the marriages, divorces, Catholic conversions, births and deaths of various family members against the backdrop of a vanishing way of life and impending disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
There are also obvious risks if he dies prematurely, becomes ill or divorces.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The industry often divorces us from what got us into the business in the first place: making believe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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
I would like to let the record show that Ali and Shohreh probably had the most amicable divorce in the history of divorces.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
She had two more children with Jerry Green before they divorced.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
You may acknowledge that your husband paid more of the mortgage over time and agree that he would receive, say, 55% or 65% of the house if you divorced.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
At home, my parents divorced, and my mother fell into a deep depression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
The couple divorced 1974 before remarrying for the second time eighteen months later in 1975.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Things hadn’t been right between us since his parents got divorced, but I was patient with him.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
The journalists said in 2023 they were in the process of divorcing their exes when the Daily Mail and Page Six reported on their romance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
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
May 2021: Bill and Melinda French Gates announce they are divorcing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
Abuelita said that Papá was divorcing Mamá, but she didn’t mention that he had another woman and two other daughters.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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