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Forty-two-year-old Thomas Frazier of Genesee County, Michigan has been jailed for failing to pay more than $530,000 in child support for the fourteen children that he has fathered by thirteen different women....

A man’s constant cleaning, tidying and performance of household chores was grounds for a divorce in the central German town of Sondershausen. After 15 years of marriage the man’s wife decided she could bear no more when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall that had become dirty. ...

Madonna is set to appeal the rejection of her adoption bid for four-year-old Malawian girl Mercy James. The rejection of her application was on the grounds that it might encourage human trafficking. The grandmother and other members of the girl’s extended family had been strongly opposed to the adoption...

Malcolm Palmer, 62, has been sentenced to life in prison for the stabbing murder of his partner Carol Cannom. The Lincoln Crown Court heard that Palmer stabbed his 46-year-old partner repeatedly with a lock knife in front of their 10-year-old son. Their relationship had recently come under strain as...

A Bosnian woman has survived an attack by her son-in-law who blamed her for the breakdown of his marriage. A Bosnian court has heard that Miroslav Miljici first attempted to kill his mother-in-law with a rocket launcher and when that failed to kill her, he used a machine gun...

Dozens of couples in the South American country of Guyana will have to repeat divorce proceedings when it was discovered that lawyers, with the help of court officials, had forged court documents to speed up divorces. Police have launched an investigation, but newly retired Attorney General Doodnauth Singh has...

Calculating the odds of a happy marriage is nothing new, but Professor James Murray of Oxford University has taken it a step further than most. In 700 couples that were studied, Murray and his team were able to predict divorce mathematically with 94% accuracy. The studies were based on...

Three New Jersey siblings with Nazi-sounding names, aged from three to under one have been authorities have removed from the custody of their parents by the State....

Forty-two-year-old Arkansas woman Michelle Duggar has just given birth to her 18th child, a 3.26kg, 51 cm baby girl named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar. ...