DivorceNetwork.com Launches Social Networking Web Site For People Affected By Divorce

DivorceNetwork.com Launches Social Networking Web Site For People Affected By Divorce

Whether to celebrate or commiserate, new web site provides online community for those affected by, contemplating or going through divorce

CLEVELAND - March 18, 2009 /PRNewswire/— More than one million people are affected by divorce each year, and whether they find it to be the best or worst thing to happen in their lives, most would agree that the process can be overwhelming. Joining a community of support can help make the process easier. DivorceNetwork.com – a worldwide support community – launches today to provide a social networking platform for those affected by, contemplating or going through a divorce.

"We designed DivorceNetwork.com to be the best combination of Google™ and Facebook - an online resource and community where people can turn for just about everything related to divorce. And we feel that we've achieved just that," said Mike Zimmerman, chief operating officer for DivorceNetwork.com. "For anyone dealing with a break-up, battling with lawyers or coping with children affected by a divorce, the site not only offers a wide range of resources, but features a social community where people can share their stories and relate to others in similar circumstances."

DivorceNetwork.com provides a number of forums and blogs that address a variety of divorce-related topics including an "I Got Screwed" forum, which provides a platform for members to share how they "got screwed" by their lawyer, ex, judge or anyone associated with the divorce. The site's content is centered on the three stages of divorce - contemplation or break-up, divorce proceedings and life after divorce - and members have the freedom to celebrate - or commiserate - their divorce status in an intimate environment of like-minded people.

DivorceNetwork.com offers the following features:

Social Network: DivorceNetwork.com allows visitors to create personalized profiles, further establishing a sense of community among its members. Similar to Facebook or MySpace, each member can include as much or as little personal information as they feel comfortable, and has the ability to join any number of forum topics.
Resources: Featuring more than 30 categories of resource listings suited to those affected by divorce, DivorceNetwork.com is the go-to source for everything needed in the before, during and life after divorce stages. Easily searchable to make it convenient for members to locate, these local resources include divorce lawyers, counseling services, daycare providers, moving companies, health clubs/personal training and storage facilities, to name a few.

Events: Recognizing that people in nearby locations may want to meet each other, DivorceNetwork.com offers the opportunity for members to coordinate their own local "meet-ups" or face-to-face activities through the site. This also gives new members a chance to search for local events in their area.

Giveaways: DivorceNetwork.com will be giving away a variety of prizes for members who choose to share their compelling stories. Prizes include iPhones, iPods, cruises, flat screen televisions and appliances.

A DivorceNetwork.com member, whose screen name is "Bunny", was actively involved on the initial beta version of the site and couldn't be happier about the new social network: "I went through a messy divorce that lasted more than two years. While there were web sites out there that offered advice or services, I never really found a community where I could share my story. I know there are millions of people in the same situation and it helps being able to identify with others going through the same struggles. It's uplifting to know that I am not alone."

DivorceNetwork.com visitors can also find a variety of articles and advice columns - penned by divorce experts - on a multitude of topics. The site also features a regular "He Said/She Said" column centered on two people of opposite gender answering a weekly divorce-related question, initiating a community debate amongst its member on a variety of topics. In addition, the site also offers support for families and children that have been affected by all stages of a marriage break-up.

An online store with humorous t-shirts, mugs, buttons and even a shirt for favorite pets, as well as a line of "I Got Screwed" products will also be available, and those interested in career opportunities with DivorceNetwork.com can view open positions directly on the site.

About DivorceNetwork.com
DivorceNetwork.com is a worldwide social media platform that provides online community support for those affected by, contemplating or going through divorce. Offering a wide range of resources, DivorceNetwork.com features a social community where people can celebrate or commiserate their divorce status with like-minded people in similar circumstances.


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100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do"

Photo: Black Weddings

I am happy to see happy couples and unhappy to see unhappy couples.

You can prevent a million and one matrimonial headaches and heartaches if you spend more time in asking the most important questions as listed in The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do"

The author is a woman who has been there and knows the truth from her long years of experience in romance and marriage.

"Had I known" is very common on the lips of most couples. But you can save yourself from the headache and heartbreak of unhappiness with your marriage if ask the questions that must be asked before walking down the aisle to tie the knots and vow for better or worse.

You should know everything about your future life partner to prevent a rude awakening one day and wonder how you have found yourself married to a monster!

"Our home is the most immediate expression of who we are and how we view life."
~ Susan Piver

It is too late to cry when your delicate heart is already broken after you are married.
It would be in your best interest to lay all the cards on the table, including all the jokers without hiding any in your briefs or under the table.

You should not keep anything secret about your life and family from your future life partner, because if he or she truly loves you enough to marry you, then your secrets should no longer remain secret before the wedding day.

Michael Webb sent me the true confession of a woman who married a man she is now regretting that she even slept with him!
Do not be shy or afraid to ask The Hard Questions before you say "I Do".

By Michael Chima

Jay-Z Will Pay Beyoncé $25 Million If They Split

The marriage of Jay-Z and Beyoncé is for life

It was on NAIJA PIKIN I read about the wedding of Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles on April 4, 2008.

There is more to their marriage than meets the eye of the ignorant fan of Mr. and Mrs. Carter. Jay-Z has agreed to pay Beyoncé $25 million and more millions of dollars for spousal support or alimony, child custody, child support, and distribution of property after divorce.

I pray for Jay-Z and Beyoncé to be happily married for life.

You can see all the details of the prenuptial agreements or postnuptial agreements of their matrimonial contract on SOHH.

Updated: Confirmation! Nick Cannon & Mariah Carey Are Married!

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon performing on the Kids Choice Awards in August 2005.
Photo Credit: Access Hollywood.

The surprise wedding of Mariah Carey and actor/rapper Nick Cannon has been confirmed by the Daily Blabber.

Mariah Carey has waited for ten years to remarry after her first marriage ended in 1998.

Mariah married Thomas Daniel 'Tommy' Mottola, in June 1993. Thomas D. Mottola was a talent manager who later became the CEO of Sony Entertainment for over 15 years. They separated in 1997 and their divorce was finalized in March 1998.

Nick Cannon has never married and was only engaged to Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks in 2007 and disengaged the same year.


Selita Ebanks at the Annual GM Ten Red Carpet, Paramount Studios, on February 20, 2007.

I have found out that Nick Cannon gave Mariah Carey a $2. 5 million ring of 17-carat platinum and pink diamond, specially designed for her at Jacob & Co.
The magnificent ring has 58 intense pink diamonds and two half-moon diamonds on each side.

Please, note that some reports said Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon were engaged and not yet married.

NEWSWEEK Cover: Splitsville and The Divorce Generation

The April 21, 2008 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 14), "Splitsville," provides an intimate look at the ways divorce evolved from something shocking to a fact of American life. Senior Editor David Jefferson interviews his high-school classmates who tell their sides of growing up as part of "Divorce Generation." Plus: how a recession may improve air travel; Barack Obama's bottom-up foreign-policy experience; what's really in your kids' videogames and Portishead on their long-awaited third album. (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 04/13/2008

13 Apr 2008 16:31 Africa/Lagos


NEWSWEEK Cover: Splitsville

The 'Divorce Generation' Grows up and Reflects on the 'Ultimate Threat to Innocence'

Many From the Class of 1982 Still Deal With the Impact Their Parents' Decisions had on Them

NEW YORK, April 13 /PRNewswire/ --

During the 1950's marriage was the most powerful social force. After California Governor Ronald Reagan's 1969, "no- fault" divorce law allowed couples to end a marriage by declaring "irreconcilable differences," divorce became the most powerful social force. Divorce evolved from something shocking, even shameful, into a routine fact of American life. Its effects, however, are no less profound.


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In the April 21 Newsweek cover "Splitsville" (on newsstands Monday, April 14), Senior Editor David J. Jefferson and his classmates from Ulysses S. Grant High School class of '82 tell their sides of growing up in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley as part of "Divorce Generation." In a series of intimate interviews with former classmates, Jefferson examines how divorce changed the lives of the children who lived through the explosion of the myth of the nuclear family, the first for which divorce was just another part of growing up. These interviews show how living through divorce shaped their lives, influenced their relationships and changed their expectations of commitment.


"Although I grew up a few blocks from the 'Brady Bunch' house, the similarity between that TV-family's tract-rancher and the ones where my friends and I lived pretty much ended at the front door," Jefferson writes. "In the real Valley of the 1970s, families weren't coming together. They were coming apart. We were the 'Divorce Generation,' latchkey kids raised with after-school specials about broken families and 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' the 1979 best-picture winner that left kids worrying that their parents would be the next to divorce. Our parents couldn't seem to make marriage stick, and neither could our pop icons: Sonny and Cher, Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors, the saccharine Swedes from Abba, all splitsville."


By the late '70s the women's rights movement had opened workplace doors to mothers-more than half of American women were employed, compared with just 38 percent in 1960-and that, in turn, made divorce a viable option for many wives who would have stayed in lousy marriages for economic reasons. By the time Jefferson and his friends entered their senior year of high school, divorce rates had soared to their highest level ever, with 5.3 per 1,000 people getting divorced each year, more than double the rate in the 1950s.


"Researchers have churned out all sorts of depressing statistics about the impact of divorce. Each year, about 1 million children watch their parents split, triple the number in the 50s. These children are twice as likely as their peers to get divorced themselves and more likely to have mental-health problems, studies show," Jefferson writes. "When we were growing up, divorce loomed as the ultimate threat to innocence, but now it just seems like another part of adult life ... What I wanted to know was how divorce had affected our class president and Miss Congeniality, the stoners and the valedictorian. Did it leave them with emotional scars that never healed, or did they go on to lead 'normal' lives? Did they wind up in divorce court, or did they achieve the domestic bliss their parents had sought in suburbia? I decided to open my yearbook, pick up the phone, and find out."


After reuniting with his friends, Jefferson found that despite the dire predictions, a surprising number of Grant alums wound up in solid marriages. Jefferson's best friend, Chris Kohnhorst, who he had met in the fifth grade and the first kid he can remember encountering whose parents were divorced, got married 15 years ago and is still happily married. Chris's life since his parents' divorce, "has been shaped to a tremendous degree by the goal of avoiding divorce as an adult at all costs," says Kohnhorst. Jefferson also found that the urge to get and stay married is stronger in his classmates' generation than the urge to get divorced was in their parents'. "Every honest couple will tell you that it's hard sometimes," says classmate Josh Gruenberg, who now lives in San Diego with his wife and three kids. "You have to compromise, and it takes work," says Ruth Kreusch, who's been married for nearly 17 years and has three kids. David Selig says divorce isn't as prominent in his social circle now as it was when he was growing up -- though his circle is admittedly smaller, since he's become much less social than he was in high school. "My wife and I would rather spend time with each other and our five rescue dogs than just about anybody else," says David, who's been with his wife for 18 years.


Others, however, were not able to avoid divorce. One ugly side effect, according to research, is that divorce can be passed from generation to generation, like some kind of genetic defect, with children of divorce becoming divorces themselves. Tonju Francois married when she was 28 and got divorced six years later, in part, because her husband didn't want to have kids (he already had children from a prior marriage). "I loved being married, and it devastated me when it ended," she says. Elyse Oliver got married when she was 25 and divorced four years later. "I guess I just didn't know what to do in a relationship," she says.


Other classmates wound up marrying much later in life than their parents did (that's in line with the research, which shows that children of divorce tend to marry either later than their peers, or much earlier, in their teens). Lisa Cohen, waited until she was 35. "This generation grew up with such a massive culture of divorce that I think there was an effort to make better choices about who we married," says Cohen, whose parents wed in their 20s. "I was pretty clear on the fact that I didn't just want to marry someone for how good he looked on paper or how crazy in love we were."


Jefferson writes that "Despite the complications and the collateral damage, my friends from Grant High's class of '82 seem to agree that the divorces in their lives -- both their parents' and their own -- were probably for the best. Most don't think ill of their parents for having split up. "As a child I felt like I was a victim of my circumstances, a victim of the divorce," says Deborah Cronin. "But as an adult I learned that my parents were just two people who met each other, fell in love, had children, and it didn't work out. They were 18 and 19 years old when they met. They were young kids having kids." It seems that along with the crow's feet and expanding waistlines of middle age, my classmates and I have acquired an acceptance of our parents and their life choices. Some of us have even found healing. "My parents were good people," says Francois. "And good people get divorced, too."


(Read cover story at www.Newsweek.com)


URL: Complete coverage


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CONTACT: Brenda Velez of Newsweek, +1-212-445-4078


Web site: Newsweek
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N.B:
For more inquiry on Divorce, contact me.
Please, note that I am anti-divorce, except in cases where life is in danger.

Could Divorce Destroy Your Business?

6 Feb 2008 09:00 Africa/Lagos


Could Divorce Destroy Your Business?

LONDON, February 6/PRNewswire/ --

2008 will be the "Year of the Postnup", according to family law specialists at online law firm, Agreements.co.uk, following a string of cases indicating judicial support for private agreements regulating finances within marriage. This January, Lord Justice Thorpe ruled that couples who try to back out of private financial agreements are now stuck with them unless they can show good cause why they should not be followed.


Like prenups, post-nuptial agreements deal with the difficult issue of how to divide money and property if a marriage goes sour, but are taken out during marriage rather than before. However postnups are subject to particular judicial scrutiny as to motive - spouses making threats if not signed, inducements if signed, those taking unfair advantage or trying to divorce on the cheap need not apply.


With the divorce courts' starting point now being an equal split - a worrying prospect for ex-Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney, who stands to lose a fortune if his divorce goes to trial - lawyers are reporting an unprecedented demand from couples taking out both prenups and postnups to soften the financial impact of divorce.


Postnups are even insisted upon by some hedge fund managers who now refuse to take on new partners until they sign one barring their spouses from making any claims on the fund.


Business is rife with risk - whether from competition, market fluctuations or plain bad luck. But what is often overlooked is the effect divorce has on a successful business. Usually funding a divorce settlement necessitates the sale of some or all of a business to accommodate the 50/50 share of overall assets that the courts now impose within divorce.


So could your business be wiped out by divorce? Statistically, in the UK, you are more likely to divorce than to stay married for life. So the bad news for any divorcing entrepreneurs is that your spouse may be entitled to half or more of the value of your business - irrespective of whether it was yours before marriage.


However there are legal solutions that the courts are now following (subject to following the correct protocols). The 'prenup' (taken out before marriage) and the 'postnup' (during).


Website, postnups.co.uk, puts prospective clients through a rigorous online 'Post-nuptial Agreement Evaluation' to ascertain their motives before agreeing to draft a postnup. "The courts have spelled out what they won't accept, and unless a couple's motives tick all the right boxes, we cannot agree to act", explains Mark Andrew, their Agreements Coordinator.


So what's the cost of having a postnup? Between GBP1,500 and GBP3,000 from most family law solicitors, and GBP450.00 online at http://www.postnups.co.uk (Tel: 0800-1955500)


http://www.prenuptialagreements.co.uk


http://www.postnuptialagreements.co.uk


Source: Agreements.co.uk Limited

Mark Andrew LL.B (Hons.), Agreements.co.uk Limited, Agreements Coordinator, Direct line: +44-(0)20-7235-3180, mark.andrew@agreements.co.uk

"Valentine's Day 10-point plan."

5 Feb 2008 18:50 Africa/Lagos


Going Solo on Valentine's Day?

No Need to Forego Love, Celebrity Divorce Attorney/Author Offers Tips

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Celebrity divorce attorney and author, Stacy D. Phillips, says if you're single or alone no need to feel left out or forfeit love this Valentine's Day. Phillips suggests implementing one or more of the suggestions from her "Valentine's Day 10-point plan."


Though the concept of 'love and be loved' is commonly expressed among many romantic couples through a variety of Valentine's Day customs, Phillips says, those who are not presently involved in close, intimate relationships can also participate in the one day of the year that emphasizes giving and receiving love. "Get pro-active," Phillips asserts. "There are so many wonderful things you can do for yourself to feel loved and special during this once yearly 'hallmark' occasion." Phillips' tips on her punch list (some require a healthy sense of humor) include:


1. Create your own valentine web site: If http://www.bemyvalentine.com/
has been taken, create another. Nothing too personal. People will
respond.
2. Photoshop yourself with your favorite celebrity: Make a card out of
it, send it to yourself. Display it. Gloat.
3. Visit http://www.classmates.com/ Surprise some old school pals by
sending some valentines. Enjoy what they send back.
4. Hit the tattoo parlor: Large or small, get one that says "I love you."
It's a lifetime reminder of what you mean to you.
5. Clip a coupon: The word love must be on it. Now, buy and mail that
item to yourself. Act surprised.
6. Go to an animal shelter: Hang out with a dog or cat for the day. Feel
the love.
7. Customize candy: Find a candymaker that will inscribe little heart
candies with your messages. Eat them and smile.
8. Rent bad-breakup movies: Watch and give thanks the story isn't yours.
9. Go to Disneyland: No on the gondola or Matterhorn. Try "Small World,"
it's about universal love.
10. Who's your Mama, who's your Daddy?: Ladies call dad; men call Mom.
Ask: Will you be my valentine this year? They will never say no!


Stacy D. Phillips, book, Divorce: It's All About Control - How to Win the Emotional, Psychological and Legal Wars, is at http://www.amazon.com/ and all book stories throughout the country.


Source: Stacy D. Phillips

CONTACT: Cherie Kerr, +1-714-550-9900, cheriekerr@aol.com, or Jennifer
Lee, kerrpr@aol.com, both of KerrPR for Stacy D. Phillips

The Unfaithful Bride

The Unfaithful Bride
This a true life story still in progress in Nigeria.

A young single woman was having an affair with a married man before she got engaged to the man who wants to marry her. They have fixed the date for their wedding and she is looking forward to a happy married life, but she wants to continue sleeping with her married lover until her wedding day. The married lover has refused to continue sleeping with her and she has been fuming and sulking.

Would it not be good to let the ignorant groom know about this unfaithful bride?

It is better and safer to remain single if you know you cannot be faithful wife.

Marriage is not compulsory.

It is better not to be married than be married and be divorced.