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Woman arrested in child-custody case
SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

A Visalia woman was arrested on suspicion of child abduction Wednesday after running off with her two biological children four days earlier, the Tulare County District Attorney's office reported.

Melissa Sevedra Estrada, 32, was visiting her two children ages 8 months and 4 years at a Visalia fast-food restaurant Sept. 12 with permission from the children's foster parents when she fled with them on foot. Visalia Police Department officers responded and initiated a search for the children and her.

Investigators and detectives located Estrada at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area of North Dinuba Boulevard and Prospect Avenue and arrested her, booking her at Tulare County Jail on $40,000 bail.

The two children were found later abandoned at a residence in the 2400 block of North Summers Street in Visalia, and returned to Tulare County Child Protective Services custody.

A second suspect, Donal Chavez, reported to be a roommate of Estrada's and father of the 8-month-old, was arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting the abduction of the children.

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Macon GA Divorce Lawyer - England ' divorce haven ' of Europe

Macon GA Divorce Lawyer - England 'divorce haven' of Europe
England has become the "divorce capital of Europe", according to a senior family lawyer.

The system is paternalistic and unprincipled, says Lady Deech, chair of the Bar Standards Board.

Huge assets can be divided equally after only a few years of marriage, sending the wrong message, she says.

A leading defence lawyer says judges do recognise that women in short marriages should not be compensated in the same way as in long marriages.

Wrong message

Lady Deech says settlements that automatically keep ex-wives in comfort at the expense of ex-husbands are wrong.

"Trot down the road to the law courts and there you'll find a woman with maybe no particular qualifications, married for a short time to a celebrity of some sort, will walk away with many, many millions", Lady Deech says.

She believes it is sending the wrong message to women, at the same time as they're being told they should take top jobs and earn as much as men.

"The message that's going out is marry a footballer, marry a banker, stick it out for a few years and your lifestyle will always be on that level", she says.

Lady Deech also says the divorce process wastes too much money, and calls on the government to reform the divorce laws to make the process fairer.

She says judges should only consider splitting assets acquired after the marriage, not those from before the marriage, which could include pensions and inheritances.

Reality different

Leading divorce lawyer, Vanessa Lloyd Platt, has worked on many celebrity divorce cases. She says the reality for women is different, and a "catch-all" law wouldn't work for everyone.

"Women will have to give up careers to look after children, and they must be properly compensated", she says.

Judges already begin with a starting point of a fifty-fifty split, she adds, and they do recognise that women in short marriages should not be compensated in the same way as in long marriages.



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Macon GA DIvorce Lawyer - Suicide takes growing toll among military, veterans

Suicide takes growing toll among military, veterans
BY LAURA UNGAR
COURIER-JOURNAL.COM • SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090913/NEWS01/909130330

As soon as Arylane Ala walked into her house that day in 2007, she saw blood — a red pool stretching from the coffee table to the fireplace. Then she saw her youngest son face down on the floor, an antique rifle by his side.

She didn't approach his body, she said: “I didn't want to see his face … his expression.”

Four tumultuous years after serving in the Middle East with the Kentucky Air National Guard, 25-year-old Bryan Ala of Louisville took his life — part of a rising number of military and veteran suicides as the Iraq war continues and fighting intensifies in Afghanistan.

“Life goes on after you lose a child,” said Bryan's father, Rich, 60. “But sweet is never as sweet as it was. The sun's never as bright. I've got a hole in my heart that will never heal up.”

The federal government estimates that 5,000 veterans commit suicide each year, and Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said suicides among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans could top combat deaths.

He made the statement last year at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association and cited a study by Rand Corp., a nonprofit research organization, showing as many as 20 percent of veterans returning from these conflicts will suffer major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, and seven in 10 won't seek help from the departments of Defense or Veterans Affairs.

The toll is also rising in the active military, with the Army reporting the most confirmed suicides — 140 last year. Locally, Fort Knox reported five confirmed suicides in 2008 and 2009. Fort Campbell reported 24 suspected or confirmed suicides in the same period and in late May suspended regular duties for everyone for three days so commanders could better help soldiers at risk.

Driving these numbers are pre-existing mental illnesses, post-traumatic stress disorder and relationship or financial problems worsened by long or repeated deployments, say mental health experts, who also point to the stigma against seeking help in a culture known for toughness.
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Macon GA Divorce Attorney - Penn ' s moves on to the next woman after divorce

Macon GA Divorce Attorney - Penn's moves on to the next woman after divorce

London : Oscar-award winning actor Sean Penn who split from his actress wife Robin Wright just weeks earlier, has already moved on to another woman.
The 'Milk' star whose wife of 12 years filed for divorce last month, was seen enjoying a romantic dinner date with a woman here, as reported.

Penn and Robin had reconciled several times following numerous break-ups, before the actress finally filed for divorce.

But the 49-year-old actor looked all set for a new beginning with the stunning woman he was spotted with at London's posh Soho Hotel.

The duo were seen having a good time, laughing and joking during the meal with Penn even feeding his date food from his own plate.








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Macon GA Divorce Lawyer - Separated for years? Then divorce, says apex court

Macon GA Divorce Lawyer - Separated for years? Then divorce, says apex court

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, while dissolving a marriage, has said it is "not acceptable" that a husband and wife go on living separately for years because one of them does not agree to a mutual divorce.

A bench of Justice Altmas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph gave this ruling Tuesday, while dissolving a sour marriage between a man and his wife, who neither wanted to live with him nor agreed to divorce him.

To give this ruling, the apex court had to resort to its extraordinary power conferred by Article 142 of the constitution that empowers it to dispense with legal technicalities, rules and procedures to do complete justice.

"The stand of the wife that she wants to live separately from her husband but is not agreeable to a mutual divorce is not acceptable to this court," said the bench, ordering dissolution of the marriage of the couple, who had been living separately for more than seven years.

The apex court gave its verdict on a lawsuit by Anil Jain, a resident of Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh, seeking divorce from his estranged wife Maya Jain. The two were married in June 1985, but the marriage turned sour.

With their marriage becoming irreconciliable, the couple arrived at a mutual agreement as per which the husband transferred certain portion of his property to his wife on the understanding that she would give her consent to divorce and let a family court pass a decree of divorce.

The couple, accordingly approached a Chhindwara court, invoking provisions of the section 13B of the Hindu Marriage Act, which allows a couple to take divorce with mutual consent.

After the couple filed their joint lawsuit for divorce, the court asked them to wait for the mandatory "cooling off period" of six months before taking a final call on their divorce petition.

But the wife did a volte face in court after the cooling off period and withdrew her consent to the divorce. This resulted in the court dismissing the couple's petition.

The husband subsequently approached the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which too dismissed the appeal. It was against this ruling of the high court that Jain had approached the apex court.

In its ruling, the apex court said that in normal circumstances, with the wife withdrawing her consent for the divorce, the husband could have been asked to start the divorce proceedings on a clean slate on the grounds that his wife did not want to live with him.

But the court pointed out that "living separately being one of the grounds for divorce by mutual consent", the marriage is liable to be dissolved by the apex court itself.




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Macon GA Divorce Lawyer - Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood splits $37M in divorce from Jo Wood

Macon GA Divorce Lawyer - Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood splits $37M in divorce from Jo Wood

BY Robert Dominguez - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Ron Wood settled his divorce out of court, but wife Jo Wood is still demanding more money.

It's officially all over now for Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Jo Wood - the former model is getting half the aging rocker's fortune.

The out-of-court divorce settlement has Jo, 53, splitting Wood's estimated worth of about $37 million down the middle.

She also gets the family's mansion in Kingston, England - worth around $19 million, plus a monthly allowance, according to the News of the World.

But Jo, who will be a contestant on the BBC show "Strictly Come Dancing" next week, apparently can't get no satisfaction from the deal - not until she totally sticks it to her estranged hubby, who left her for another woman.

Friends say Jo is also demanding Wood sell his estimated $6.4 million home in County Kildare, Ireland, as part of the settlement.

The reason?

It's where the 62-year-old Wood is said to have fallen in love with his latest squeeze, 20-year-old Russian waitress Katia Ivanova.



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