Divorce: Week in Review

Have you ever seen a week when there was so much "in the news" about divorce? For instance, we learned this week that Tiger Woods and his spouse reportedly might be getting a divorce. No surprise there, right? We also learned that the Gosselin's divorce became final. Great news for all of us who are tired of hearing about it! And we learned that Ivana Trump, who was formerly married to, (and divorced from), Donald Trump, is now reportedly divorcing her fourth husband. Again, no surprise there, right? But did you hear the news that country singer LeAnn Rimes' husband has also reportedly filed for divorce from her?

The news this week that makes me the saddest involves the previous post in this divorce blog concerning David Goldman's ongoing battle to get back his son from his (now deceased) ex-wife's family in Brazil. At the time of the previous post, it appeared that Mr. Goldman had won a much deserved victory in this international child custody battle. But sadly, since the last post, a Brazilian judge has thrown yet another procedural hurdle into Goldman's efforts to take his son home.

Here's hoping that each of these celebrity divorces ends well for each of these parties and that there will continue to be a lot of divorce issues for me to write about in the new year! And here's also hoping that David Goldman soon wins his valiant child custody battle and gets his son back!

John Minus Kate Plus Eight: Do You Need to Know?

Okay, I have resisted the temptation, until now, to include a post on the now infamous Gosselin divorce! But this IS a divorce blog, so I have finally yielded to the temptation...sort of!

I believe there has been too much publicity about the Gosselin divorce. And I don't intend to rehash here questions about who you believe is at fault, or about whether or not you believe the kids are being mistreated by appearing on the t.v. show. (Personally, I don't believe the kids are being mistreated in any way by simply appearing on the show, or at least I believe the good appears to far outweigh the bad). But there always seems to be something new in the public eye about this ongoing divorce saga. And the press appears to be hounding this poor family.

The latest news is that reportedly John Gosselin no longer wants to appear on the show, (for which he and Kate reportedly receive $75,000 per episode), and that he wants to get a regular day job. Wow! Who could walk away from $75,000 per week? But I am sure he is just sick of all the publicity. (Do any of you know where I could get another "regular job" paying $75,000 per week?) Kate, on the other hand, apparently still wants to continue working on the show.

What do you think about this "new" development? And what did you think about reports that he was allegedly seeing another woman before the divorce is final? Do you really care? Or does anyone "out there" really care to know about any of these issues? I know that my inquiring mind does not want to know.

And just one more question: Even though this is a divorce blog, will it be okay with you all if we let this be the one and only obligatory post dealing with the Gosselin divorce and that we, from this point forward, agree to allow them to deal with their divorce in private?! Thank you!