Most family lawyers have probably seen the film War of the Roses starring Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. This is a story about a romantic encounter, a marriage and a really nasty divorce. The warring Roses both ended up dead. Recent real divorces have been similarly messy, even though they've not resulted in any deaths.
Oh wait. There was that doctor in Long Island who donated a kidney to his wife and then wanted it back . . . the kidney of $1.5 million. I guess we could call that a case of "near death."
Then there was the Cambodian divorce. The marital estate was to be divided in half. I blogged that under the title "I am not making this up!"
For other whacky divorce stories, see CNN Living's "10 bizarre divorce settlements."
Or see "Where are the common decency police when you really need them" on this blog.
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