divorce

After Kamal Haasan claimed his 1988 divorce from Vani Ganapathy left him bankrupt, his ex-wife hit back: 'Can alimony make a man bankrupt?'

July 9, 2015 · 1 min read

The Supreme Court ruled that abusing in-laws and barring them from the matrimonial home amounts to mental cruelty — a valid ground for divorce.

April 27, 2015 · 1 min read

A 2015 survey of UK divorce lawyers found Facebook cited in over a third of cases — as evidence of infidelity, hidden finances, and rekindled old flames.

January 20, 2015 · 1 min read

When long marriages end over 'incompatibility,' is it really incompatibility — or a midlife crisis? A reflection on marriage, divorce, and the work in between.

November 13, 2013 · 2 min read

Tabloids periodically claimed Barack and Michelle Obama had secretly filed for divorce. No credible evidence ever emerged, and the marriage endured.

November 8, 2012 · 2 min read

In July 2012, reports said Jab We Met director Imtiaz Ali had separated from his wife Preety — ending one of Bollywood's quietest marriages.

July 11, 2012 · 1 min read

Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise in New York in June 2012, seeking sole custody of six-year-old Suri and ending five and a half years of marriage.

July 2, 2012 · 1 min read

A Bombay High Court judge's 'be like Sita' remark to a wife in 2012 sparked a debate about mythology, marital endurance, and what courts owe women seeking

May 8, 2012 · 1 min read

Studies once found cohabitation predicted divorce — the 'cohabitation effect'. The real mechanisms: sliding vs deciding, selection, and age.

April 17, 2012 · 1 min read

Reports of trouble in Karisma Kapoor's marriage surfaced in 2012. The divorce from Sanjay Kapur was finalized in 2016, with custody of their two children to

April 10, 2012 · 2 min read

A prenup with a weight-gain penalty clause made headlines in 2012. Why body-policing contracts are legally shaky — and what they do to a marriage.

March 13, 2012 · 1 min read

A gene variant called 5-HTTLPR was once said to predict divorce. It doesn't. Here's what the actual research found about DNA and marital satisfaction.

February 28, 2012 · 2 min read

In 2011, Additional Solicitor General Darius Khambata's legal opinion forced the Mumbai passport office to concede: a divorced woman may keep her married name.

October 2, 2011 · 2 min read

A 2011 Wall Street Journal essay on the 'divorce generation' asked a hard question: when parents pour everything into the kids, who tends the marriage?

July 11, 2011 · 1 min read

A lasting marriage isn't always a happy one. Research on self-expansion suggests the happiest couples are the ones still learning together.

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

The fleeing husband who leaves a long marriage triggers more than grief — a painful revision of the whole story the abandoned partner told herself.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read