HBO’s Ren Faire is a quasi-documentary about George Coulam, “the eccentric 86-year-old founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival, and the battle to inherit the kingdom he created.” George goes by ‘The King.’ He founded the festival fifty years ago. He built a town around the festival grounds, incorporated it, and became mayor of that as well. He...
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Stepparents late in life and plans Robbie Robertson was a seminal figure in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Founder of The Band – famous as Bob Dylan’s backup band and then on their own for more than a decade; made one of the best reviewed solo albums of the 1980s; author of what’s generally regarded as one...
Whether thoughts of a divorce or separation have been simmering for months or the decision comes out of the blue, choosing to proceed with the breakup of a marriage is one of the most challenging decisions in life. Once the words have been spoken and the ball is rolling, it’s as if it gets kicked...
Written with my friend and colleague, Jenny Bradley of Triangle Smart Divorce in Cary, North Carolina. As family law attorneys, we’re asked a lot about ‘what sort of person don’t we want as a client’. There’s a few potential answers, of course, but one type of personality is almost always at the top of the...
There may be a spoiler or two below if you’re concerned at all with the narrative arc of HBO’s new show, Divorce. I’m in it more for the feel, the emotions, and the occasional right-on little detail that I see almost every day in my practice. I started watching HBO’s Divorce a week or so...
Lucy Langhanke – you’d have to be into movies in a pretty unhealthily obsessive way to know that that’s the real name of the great ’30’s- ’40’s actress Mary Astor. Mary Astor is best remembered for a handful of things – playing Brigid O’Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon, winning an Academy award for The Great...
A client finalized her divorce this week. Seemingly seconds after everything was signed, sealed, and delivered her now ex-husband demanded she ‘get in touch’ with me and get ‘some changes made.’ Out of habit, and in sheer disregard at what had just occurred, she almost did it until, with a little prompting from me, she realized...