Archive for October, 2008

Personally I’d always assumed divorce was linked to marriage, as all divorces start out with a marriage at some point, but some people believe that divorce (and suicide for that matter) is in fact linked to gambling. A report in America was commissioned to show the impact and relationship gambling has on the divorce rate in the country, as eight casino communities were looked at throughout the country.

Incredibly, the data secured from the report showed that the divorce rate in four of the eight communities in which a casino was introduced showed a decrease in divorce rates. Only one of the communities actually showed any form of significant increase in divorce rates.

This is interesting to note as gambling has always been considered a factor in divorce, yet the figures show that gambling in the US isn’t relative to an increase in the divorce rate.

However the effects of gambling, notably problems in finances for couples, are a factor in divorce as money is one of the most notable reasons for a divorce.

The most common reason for divorce is still cited as being adultery however, usually by the man. This is attributed to the divorce gene that was recently reported as being found within men that I talked about recently.

Clive Bellmore

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Choi Jin-sil was a popular film and TV actress in South Korea, but she was found dead on Thursday as she seemingly hanged herself in her bathroom. The troubled actress was recently divorced from a Japanese baseball team star named Cho Sung-min, with whom she’d had two children. Her divorce was very messy and public, and Cho was even arrested at one point for attacking Choi.

Hours before she died she reportedly sent a text message to her personal assistant asking her to take care of her children.

She was also distressed over the suicide of another actor, Ahn Jae-hwan, who was a close friend of hers early this year, a friend that according to reports she had lent money to before they died. Rumours were abound that her pressure on the man to repay the loan led to his suicide, which she venomously denied.

The text messages Choi sent before she died stated:

Take care of my children no matter what happens.

I’m sorry.

Her mother stated that she returned home on Wednesday night and was drunk, and clearly upset about the rumours surrounding her dead friend.

In an ironic twist, Choi was currently starring a TV series in South Korea titled “The Last Scandal of My Life” – which was a series about a woman who went through a messy divorce.

Clive Bellmore

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According to fashion magazine ‘Vogue’, divorce is going to be the ‘in thing’ this autumn. They conducted a survey and found that a good divorce lawyer was the 13th hottest trend of the top 40 trends for this season.

I guess women understand what this all means, cos I don’t.

According to Vogue:

The new best friend, a good divorce lawyer, cometh the credit crunch, cometh the great settlement.

Mandy Rimmer is a family lawyer with the Wigan based legal firm Stephensons, she believes that the popularity of divorce lawyers is a sign of the times with the current financial climate effecting people’s relationships.

I’m not surprised our profession has made it onto Vogue’s ‘what’s hot’ barometer.

Unfortunately, relationship breakdowns are another fall-out from the credit crunch and I would expect to see an increase in divorces, particularly between people in high-pressured jobs, as it continues.

So rather than get that new coat this autumn, get yourself a divorce lawyer. It’s what they’ll all be wearing in the high street!

Clive Bellmore

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Some guys take things very literally, especially when there’s a divorce under debate. A Cambodian man decided that his country’s law stating that couples get exactly half of their assets during a divorce was to be taken literally, and proceeded to cut his house in half down the middle.

‘Meuon Rima’ took a saw to the matrimonial home he shared with his wife Nhang and cut the building in half, before hooking it up to his car and driving off with it. Meuon sought a divorce from his wife after she’d refused to play nurse for him when he was ill recently (presumably a serious case of man-flu).

Interestingly enough he didn’t take the same measures when it came to dividing the children, who he left with his ex-wife.

It may have seemed like an extreme solution to the problem, but Cambodia has a very expensive court system which is renowned for its corruption, so he just looking to save some money on divorce lawyers.

Clive Bellmore

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All men are suspicious of their ex-wives, and it seems one ex-wife gives real basis to those suspicions. Shahra Marsh, a glamorous divorcee woman aged 52, managed to con some of the major auction houses and fashion outlets in London into handing over items worth £2,000,000 in exchange for some bogus cheques.

She entered places such as Christies and Sotheby’s, wearing expensive clothes and adorned in expensive jewellery, placed the perfect con on the posh London outlets.

She was being trialled at Southwark Crowd Court, where she eventually admitted her guilt after first insisting she was innocent of fraud. Her career in fraud and deception began just after her divorce. Her husband was a wealthy property developer, who no doubt inadvertently funded her ‘costume’ for her scams.

She eventually pleaded guilty to 38 counts of fraud, theft and obtaining property by deception.

Clive Bellmore

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