Though the European Commission launched an effort on March 24th to harmonise divorce law among ten like-minded countries (and it hopes other EU states will come on board), many international initiatives have become bogged down amid cultural and legal differences.

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The need to soothe Christian Democracy's humiliation may mean that a long-promised divorce law is watered down, for example.

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While Peter was in jail, awaiting trial for corruption, she took a job as a junior litigator, transforming herself into a single working parent, paying legal fees, sparring with her mother-in-law, and mulling a divorce.

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Washington (CNN) -- Maryland's highest court has ruled that a lesbian couple married out of state can legally file for divorce, even though Maryland's own same-sex marriage law does not take effect until next year.

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Betty Wade, now 72, says she doesn't remember that her relationship with her daughter-in-law was tense or a factor in the couple's divorce discussion.

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