They may wake up when their wives walk out the door or hand them divorce papers.
Some couples merely buy fake divorce papers, without actually going through with it.
There's a bump in the road when Cheever's wife hands him divorce papers.
The divorce papers had arrived six months later, mailed to the cottage that Suchen had rented, not far from their old house.
Many of the victims are men in their 20s suffering from temporary depression, such as the shock of being served with divorce papers.
On Monday, after meeting with lawyers, mediators, notaries, and psychologists all weekend, the pair walks away amicably, with divorce papers signed, for one flat fee.
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In 1986, Den Watts famously handed divorce papers to wife Angie in the pub and in 1994 Grant Mitchell exposed his brother Phil's affair with Sharon to customers.
The media kingpin made the news over the weekend for weighing in on another permanent headline fixture: Tom Cruise, who has been served divorce papers by wife Katie Holmes.
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In 2009 the government of Michelle Bachelet - herself detained under the dictatorship - passed a law allowing them to inherit their parents' wealth without a death certificate and dissolve their marriages without divorce papers.
Something was a bit fishy about the story from the start, considering that Mildred and Rogelio separated shortly after she gave birth and that the divorce papers they filed ten years later stated that they had no minor children together.
But meanwhile, judges in Owensboro started complaining about people who came into court with divorce and other papers that looked suspiciously well-prepared.
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"The court is going to grant dissolution of marriage, " the judge said, advising that the divorce would not be final until papers are drawn up and signed.
While this might seem like just a nasty divorce, Twin Capital claims in separate court papers that local police have initiated a criminal investigation of the alleged hacking.
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Edra says she expects the divorce to become final in a few days, once all the needed papers are signed and filed.
According to the legal papers, Daugherty was not a reluctant witness at a Dondero divorce proceeding earlier this year when he testified that Dondero was manipulating his net worth calculation down so he would have to pay Rebecca less under Texas state law.
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