Domestic Diversions

Findlaw/AP published notice of an ex-wife’s firesale of a $250 million divorce judgment, collectible from the Saudi royal family (excerpt): After battling for more than 20 years to collect the court-ordered judgment, Diana Bilinelli said she has decided to sell…

BBC News lists 101 words that came into common use in the last 101 years: A study of when new words became common during the past century has had some surprising findings, such as the word “celebs” being used in…

just that you listen and you express care

Oprah the juror

difference between a physical disease and a mental disease

Pink was a boy’s color

divorce court battles over pets

dangling themselves from meat hooks

Virginia law requiring that campers be supervised by a parent or grandparent

the findings of the happiness economists

a woman’s constitutional right to complain about her ex-husband

divorce as a social side effect of gastric bypass surgery

usual underage drinking story, with a twist

separate but equal classrooms for girls and boys

the passing of attorney Grant Gruel

the scientific community remains extremely polarized about the reliability of polygraph techniques

the dangers children face from drunk drivers

Justice Harry Blackmun’s private papers are going public

now available

the amazing story of Bobby Duval and his children