Recent Posts in Alimony

• Posted By The Graves Law Firm 10-Mar-2015

  Ex-Spouse Gets Hearing For Million-Dollar Settlement - 20 Years After Divorce

  Imagine you've gotten divorced. Five years down the line, you begin a company with your own money and your own ideas, and it eventually becomes successful — very successful. Then, out of the blue, your ex-spouse's lawyer informs your ...

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• Posted By The Graves Law Firm 23-Jan-2015

  Harold Hamm's Ex Finally Accepts Almost $1B Payout But Wants More

  Recently, we told you about the astonishing decision made by Sue Ann Arnall, the recently divorced ex-wife of billionaire oil man Harold Hamm. Back in November, Arnall declined the court-approved $975 million divorce settlement because she didn't ...

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• Posted By The Graves Law Firm 6-Jan-2015

  Almost $1B Turned Down As A Divorce Settlement

  What do you think is adequate compensation for 26 years of marriage? Most would say half, but what if you're married to a billionaire you estimate is worth $18 billion? Could you live with $974.8 million? For Sue Ann Arnall, the now-ex wife of ...

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• Posted By The Graves Law Firm 17-Sep-2014

  CSI Creator Trades Half of Fortune For New Wife

  Anthony Zuiker is one of the most powerful players in Hollywood you've never heard of. He produces all the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation franchises, including CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and CSI: Cyber. But it won't take a forensic accountant to ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 26-May-2014

  Russian Billionaire Loses Multi-Billion Dollar Divorce Settlement

  Johnnie Taylor, and many more singers after him, once crooned, “It’s cheaper to keep her/ It’s cheaper to keep her/By the time you get through lookin' that judge in the face/You're gonna want to cuss the whole human ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 10-Feb-2014

  Divorcee Ignores Judge's Facebook Friend Request, Gets 'Excessive' Alimony Payment

  While social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have broadened our definition of the word “friend,” some users take it too far. That would be the case for Florida Circuit Judge Linda Schoonover, who decided to use a divorcing couple to ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 23-Sep-2013

  Alaskan Doctor Hides Millions in Divorce; Now in Jail

  Sometimes, divorces can be mutual, easy and completed with minimal effort. When Michael Brandner, a 64-year-old plastic surgeon in Alaska decided to divorce his wife of 28 years, he took the decidedly opposite approach. He decided to get the federal ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 16-Sep-2013

  Clint and Dina Eastwood Asks for Legal Separation, Swap Partners With Other Couple

  For an 83 year old man, Clint Eastwood's legal separation filing from his wife of 17 years Dina is a pretty steamy affair! The couple filed papers in Monterey County Superior Court. The former newscaster Dina, 48, seeks spousal support from the ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 20-May-2013

  Women Increasingly Asked To Pay Alimony

  Women in the workplace have become so commonplace that when stories like this hit the media cycle, it's hard not to smack one's head and think, "Of course!" Writing for Time, Liza Mundy, a fellow at the New America Foundation, ...

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