Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.

Chaplin became fearful that Harris would claim The Kid as part of the divorce proceedings, so packed the 400, 000 feet negative into crates and travelled to Salt Lake City to cut the film in a hotel room.

Unwilling to allow his film to be drawn into the divorce proceedings, Chaplin announced that production on The Circus had been temporarily suspended.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie and Angela initiated divorce proceedings, and after months of court battles the marriage was ended in early 1980.

Her husband cited " illicit conduct " during the divorce proceedings.

Many of the singer's closest associates and friends claim that Parsons was preparing to commence divorce proceedings at the time of his death ; the couple had already separated by this point.

The establishment of legalized gambling and lenient marriage and divorce proceedings in the 20th century transformed Nevada into a major tourist destination.

When Francine discovers his infidelity, she initiates divorce proceedings.

Although she began proceedings for divorce in January 1794, it was at the insistence of Condorcet and Cabanis, who wished to protect their property from expropriation and to provide financially for Sophie and their young daughter, Louise ' Eliza ' Alexandrine.

In jurisdictions adopting the ' no-fault ' principle in divorce proceedings, some courts may still take into account the behaviour of the parties when dividing property, debts, evaluating custody, and support — facts that almost always have considerable weight in fault proceedings.

A 2011 study found a 1 % increase in the unemployment rate correlated with a 1 % decrease in the divorce rate, presumably because more people were financially challenged to afford the legal proceedings.

He began proceedings to divorce Joséphine de Beauharnais, who could not bear him a son, and began searching for a new empress.

She was once again eager for divorce but proceedings were frustrated by James, who she believed her husband had bribed.

Watson's affair had become front-page news, during divorce proceedings, in the Baltimore newspapers.

His Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the " most important single contemporary source for Wolsey's life " which also offers a " detailed picture of early sixteenth-century court life and of political events in the 1520s, particularly the divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon.

Amy and Sam were in the midst of divorce proceedings, but the only other household incident had been a decidedly minor 2006 domestic fight over the children.

Martin initiated divorce proceedings.

After opening with a brief, seemingly irrelevant scene of a suitcase on an airport carousel, the story quickly focuses on a Paris divorce court where Karol Karol ( Zbigniew Zamachowski ) is pleading with the judge — the same legal proceedings that Juliette Binoche's character briefly stumbled upon in Blue.

During pre-trial proceedings in the divorce case, Armstrong's lawyers had sought to limit evidence of a sexual nature but his wife's attorneys said " it was crucial since the church leader alleged Mrs. Armstrong had breached an agreement of love and fidelity.

During the divorce proceedings between Le Mesurier and Jacques, he allowed Jacques to bring the suit on grounds of Le Mesurier's infidelity to ensure that the press blamed him for the break-up, thus avoiding any negative publicity for her.

During the Nelson divorce proceedings, he was accused by his wife's attorney of using cocaine, quaaludes, and other drugs, and of having " a severe drug problem " encouraged by his managers, his entourage, and his groupies.

When MacBride would not agree to Maud's terms, she made accusations against him and instituted divorce proceedings in Paris.

However, her husband died from a stroke in 1905 before the divorce proceedings could be finalized.

Johnstone started divorce proceedings in June 1824 and the suit was finalised early in 1826.

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

His dialogues on divorce and against the Trinity were also considered obnoxious.

Consequently, Bahá ' ís were unable to obtain government identification documents ( such as national identification cards, birth certificates, death certificates, marriage or divorce certificates, or passports ) necessary to exercise their rights in their country unless they lied about their religion, which conflicts with Bahá ' í religious principle.

They were divorced in 1951, his second and last divorce.

By contrast, Rabbinic Judaism subsequently took the opposite view, espoused by Hillel, the leader of the other major Pharisee school of thought at the time ; in Hillel's view, men were allowed to divorce their wives for any reason.

In October 1990, a decade after his divorce from Angela, Bowie and Somali-born supermodel Iman were introduced by a mutual friend.

The two were unable to marry until after Katrine had obtained a divorce on 21 February 1871, after the birth of their first two sons.

The main issues for early Jewish feminists in these movements were the exclusion from the all-male prayer group or minyan, the exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot, and women's inability to function as witnesses and to initiate divorce.

Proposals to allow divorce were put by referendum by two Fine Gael – led governments, in 1986 under FitzGerald, and in 1995 under John Bruton, passing very narrowly on this second attempt.

Soon after his divorce, de Klerk and Georgiades were married.

They subsequently married ( between 1993-1996 ), filed for divorce on the week of 2007-08-10, and were granted the divorce in January, 2008.

Following Aileen Philby's death in England in 1957, and Eleanor's subsequent divorce from Brewer, Philby and Eleanor were married in London in 1959, and set up house together in Beirut.

In 1946, Philby finally arranged a formal divorce from Litzi ; he and Aileen were married on 25 September 1946, while Aileen was pregnant with their fourth child, Miranda.

Some of his views, particularly those on divorce, abortion, and homosexuality, were opposed by a substantial segment of the party.

Whatever the circumstances were, the marriage failed, and Anne agreed to a peaceful annulment, assumed the title My Lady, the King's Sister, and received a massive divorce settlement, which included Richmond Palace, Hever Castle, and numerous other estates across the country.

Divorce legislation introduced in 1857 allowed for a man to divorce his wife for adultery, but a woman could only divorce if adultery were accompanied by cruelty.

The laws regarding a divorce were the same for both men and women.

Jackson's marriage came in for attack: when he had married his wife Rachel, the couple had believed that she was divorced ; however, the divorce was not yet finalized, so he had to remarry her once the legal papers were complete.

Despite the divorce story, Ní Mháille and Bourke appear as mentioned as husband and wife in English documents of the period, so appeared to remain married, at least allied, as far as the English were concerned.

Under certain conditions dictated by custom, not law, both men and women were able to divorce their spouses and remarry.

On 3 November, a law legalizing divorce was passed ; then laws recognizing the legitimacy of children born outside wedlock, authorizing cremation, secularizing cemeteries, suppressing religious teaching in the schools and prohibiting the wearing of the cassock, were passed.

He and Louise openly discussed the separation with the media, maintaining that they were still friends and had not taken divorce action.