Divorce Lagal Blog

       36 year old Marie Douglas-David, a Swedish Countess, is claiming that a $43 million dollar divorce agreement (more then $53,000 per week!) is not enough to fund her to maintain the life style she is accustomed to.  Ms. Douglas-David, who married 67 year old George David in 2002, is attempting to have a postnuptial agreement that the couple signed in 2005 invalidated.  Ms. Douglas-David claims the agreement is the product of coercion by her husband after a turbulent period in their marriage.  George Davis is the former CEO of United Technologies Corporation and has an estimated net worth of $329 million. 

Ms. Douglas-David argues that $53,000 per week is inadequate to cover her expenses including weekly expenses including “$700 for limousine service, $4,500 for clothes, $1,000 for hair and skin treatments, $1,500 for restaurants and entertainment, and $8,000 for travel.”  Ms. Douglas-Davis also maintains “a Park Avenue apartment and three residences in Sweden.”  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29760888/ Read the rest of this entry »

CNN Reports the lights on Broadway in New York City were dimmed Thursday, March 19, to honor the life of famed actress Natasha Richardson. Richardson’s most prominent New York appearance came over a decade ago in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of “Cabaret,” for which Richardson won a 1998 Tony award for Best Actress. Richardson died in Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City after suffering a brain injury while skiing at a resort in Quebec, Canada.

According to the Canadian ambulance service director, paramedics who were dispatched to the ski slope shortly after her fall were turned away before they could check on Richardson. Shortly thereafter, Richardson returned to her hotel accompanied by her ski instructor, but started feeling poorly about an hour after the fall. Richardson was taken to a local hospital in Canada before she was transferred to Hospital du Sacre-Coeur in Montreal. Richardson died in New York City from what the medical examiner’s office ruled an accidental death caused by “epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head.” Read the rest of this entry »

It is becoming more and more difficult to find a stable source of employment in America today.  Recent reports have noted that the unemployment is the highest it has been in twenty five years.  Edison Junior High School in Massillon, Ohio recently learned first hand how bad things have become when they placed an advertisement seeking a full-time janitor.  Much to the surprise of school administrators, 527 applicants sent resumes for the position.  The starting salary is $15 per hour and many applicants are attracted to the benefits and stability the position offers in these tough economic times.  Some of the applicants are professional plumbers, carpenters, and other people who only a year ago would have seemed overqualified for these positions, but now are in need of any good job they can find.  http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/08/kosich.oh.janitor.job.wews

New York is an “at will” state, meaning employers are free to fire employees at any time for any reasons.  However, the state and federal government have passed laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that forbid employers from taking adverse employment actions against employees on several basis including, race, gender, national origin, and others.  http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/vii.html.  Employment discrimination is not limited to improper termination.  Employment discrimination claims can stem from any adverse employment action including, but not limited to failure to promote, restring an employee to unfair hours, lower pay, or even failure to hire.  Read the rest of this entry »