While it would be ideal if you could simply hire a lawyer, dictate what you want, then forget about it until your judgment of divorce arrives, it doesn’t work that way. Untying the knot requires your active participation, especially if you want to keep costs down. Homework from your lawyer may include gathering financial data, calculating your living expenses and constructing a record of custody-related events. If you want to get divorced quickly and inexpensively, start your homework early and do it painstakingly and thoroughly. MORE
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian isn’t often held up as a model of prudent behavior. But the recent reports that she and her fiancé, NBA forward Kris Humphries, are working out a prenuptial agreement make her the celebutante face of a practical new trend. Prenups are on the rise. And they aren’t just for the wealthy and famous these days. MORE
Angered that her grandson ate too much bacon at breakfast, a 63-year-old woman chased the boy out of her Pennsylvania home and pinned him down on the front lawn, where she blasted him in the face with a garden hose, police allege. MORE
A pair of Orange County jail inmates facing murder charges were married in a behind-bars ceremony Monday, a circumstance officials could not recall happening before.
The 20-year-old bride is Marissa Star Bilotti, a Huntington Beach woman jailed since December 2010 for allegedly helping an ex-boyfriend kill a man in a dispute over a woman. MORE
Beginning Friday, Amazon.com and other large out-of-state retailers will be required to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make online. MORE