Who knows better how to divorce well than a divorce attorney? Nobody. They see the worst and the best of separations, divorces, and custody battles. Laurence Wilson is no exception. In fact, he’s been compiling insights to write a divorce guidebook his entire legal career. For 50 years, Larry helped more than 4,000 divorcing couples to separate amicably, encouraging collaboration and cooperation rather than competition and heartbreak that only adds stress to families (while making the attorneys a lot of money!). Larry joined the Getting Open podcast to talk about how he encourages separating and divorcing couples to display kindness, […]

Natalia Potanina is looking for a £5billion pay out from Vladimir Potanin, who is estimated to be worth around $20 billion dollars – around £15.7 billion Vladimir Potanin is set to be the focus of one of the biggest ever divorce cases. The ex-wife of a one of Russia’s richest men has been given the go-ahead for a multi-billion pound divorce, which is likely to be the biggest ever divorce case in English history. Natalia Potanina is looking for a £5billion pay out from Vladimir Potanin, who is estiamted to be worth around $20 billlion dollars – around £15.7 billion. […]

The secret garden, the floristry masterpiece, the sparkling ring and the fairytale proposal. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement sparked joy among fans, as well as speculation on social media and in the press. But why has this event caused such a flurry of interest among family law professionals? There are several key elements of the upcoming Swift-Kelce marriage that have raised questions amongst legal onlookers. The sheer volume of wealth and assets owned by Swift is reportedly 20 times that of her new fiancé, despite his own significant net worth. In 2024, Swift reached billionaire status, the first woman […]

A divorced man has been declared a vexatious litigant due to his relentless pursuit of grievances stemming from an unfavourable divorce settlement. The man had taken his cases through multiple layers of the judicial system, culminating in appeals to the Constitutional Court, only to find himself repeatedly unsuccessful. The man’s ex-wife sought the relief of the court to have him declared a vexatious litigant due to ongoing legal proceedings instituted by the man, who has attempted to avoid fulfilling the obligations imposed on him by the divorce order in August 2020. Western Cape High Court Judge Lister Nuku said that […]

Cryptocurrency is no longer an outlier in financial remedy proceedings. Increasingly, digital assets form part of high-net-worth divorce settlements, yet the law and disclosure processes have not kept pace with the complexities these cases present. For family lawyers, this creates a growing need to balance client expectations with practical limitations, while developing strategies to manage disputes involving digital wealth. The key takeaway is not for family lawyers to become tech experts, but to understand the fundamentals of dealing with cryptocurrency in divorce, just as they would with more familiar assets like property, businesses or savings. Crypto and concealed wealth in […]

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Schilling, a 41-year-old dad of two and head of assurance services at a CPA firm in Minneapolis. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Trying to raise two kids while co-parenting can be madness. One minute, I’m in the office speaking with clients and coworkers, and the next, I’m challenging a call from a referee courtside, coaching my daughter’s basketball game. I’ve been co-parenting since the pandemic, and five years in it requires a lot of logistics, planning, and sacrifice. Right now, I have my kids and my calendar scheduled […]

Litigation has long been a central legal practice pillar and profit center. The term is applied narrowly to describe disputes that invoke the judicial process and broadly to encompass any formal dispute resolution process involving legal rights. The broader definition entails internal and governmental investigations, arbitration, mediation, regulatory, administrative, and other extra-judicial proceedings. Lawyers have long regarded dispute resolution— like contract drafting and other self-proclaimed “legal” functions— as their birthright. It epitomized the lawyer-centric, artisanal, brute force, approach to disputes and the hubris of the profession’s “lawyers and ‘non-lawyers’” mindset. Litigation is protracted, arcane, opaque, inefficient,…

Family Beef is our family advice column at HuffPost Family. Have a beef you want us to weigh in on? Submit it here. Dear Family Beef, My parents have never had a “happy” marriage. My dad was always the loud, life-of-the-party, at least in public, and my mom is generally more reserved and quieter with him — mostly because it seems like he bullied the life out of her. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember. I don’t have much of a relationship with my father for a lot of reasons – but how he’s treated […]

Billionaire mogul David Geffen’s refusal to leave his now ex-husband his $590 million superyacht helped lead to their ugly divorce, a new report claims. Geffen, 82, first connected with Donovan Michaels, 32 – also known as David Armstrong – on SeekingArangements.com in 2016 and went on a date the billionaire said cost him $10,000. Soon, Geffen asked Michaels to get a passport so he could more easily join him aboard the Rising Sun, a a 454-foot-long super-yacht with a basketball court, wine cellar and a crew of 45, the Wall Street Journal reports. The yacht, which Geffen bought for an estimated […]