This Week's Divorce Tales: When Did the Trouble Start?
Continuing the conversation about your parents' divorce, this week we want to know: When did the trouble start? When did a cute idiosyncracy become an intolerable character defect? When did their eyes...
View ArticleThis Week's Divorce Tales: Why Did They Break Up?
Those glasses didn't break on their own. So what really happened? How did the family go from a stable home life to vacations in Maine with a "new friend" sitting next to you in the front seat of the...
View ArticleThis Week's Divorce Tales: How Did You Tell Us?
The "family meeting" should have clued us in.As part of our on-going conversation about your parents' divorce, we want to know how they broke the news of the impending split. Was it lots of...
View ArticleAl and Tipper Gore Call it Quits
Al and Tipper Gore shocked friends and political observers when they announced that they would separate after 40 years of marriage. The couple that weathered some of the harshest marriage conditions...
View ArticleVideos: Previous Divorce Tales
We’re four theater artists, all members of The Civilians– a theater company that creates shows from investigations into real life. That’s one thing we have in common.The other thing is that all of our...
View ArticleThis Week's Divorce Tales: What Was Your Reaction?
The decision to get divorced has finally been made. Now what?Continuing the conversation about your parents' divorce, we want to hear how you felt when you found out your parents were splitting up....
View ArticleTales From Your Parents' Divorce
The Civilians are listening to your divorce tales.The above audio is cartoonist Nikole Beckwith's tale of her parents split.For each question we post each week tell us your tale and we'll showcase some...
View ArticleLast Week's Divorce Tales: What Were The Terms Of The Split?
He wants the house. She wants the kids. And they both want that crystal-encrusted vase that was a wedding present.Some conditions are easily-agreed upon. Other times, arguments over objects (and...
View ArticleNo-Fault Divorce Law Closer to Approval
Getting a divorce in New York State could soon be a lot easier.The New York State Senate voted 32-29 to pass a no-fault divorce bill that would replace the current law and simplify the divorce process....
View ArticleThis Week's Divorce Tales: What Were We Like Afterwards?
The world as we knew it ended, and the shuttling back-and-forth began.This week, we explore what happened after the dust settled on your parents' divorce. Did you visit a therapist? Did you act out in...
View ArticleThe Divorce Tales: LIVE
The Civilians joined WNYC live at the Greene Space on Monday, June 28 to share your divorce tale contributions and to perform excerpts from YOU BETTER SIT DOWN: Tales From My Parents' Divorce.In case...
View ArticleAlimony Reforms: NJ May End Permanent Payments
New Jersey legislators are considering reforms that would end permanent alimony. Laura W. Morgan, owner of Family Law Consulting in Charlottesville, Virginia and co-author (with Brett Turner) of the...
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