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Lawyers.com recently reported on the rather unusually difficult divorces of Deion Sanders and Kim Kardashian. But you don’t have to a celebrity athlete or even “famous for being famous” to have a strange divorce. The infographic below provided by totaldivorce.com also shows that unusual divorces occur the world over. For example, some wives might feel they should only be so lucky — but one woman in Germany divorced her husband, claiming he cleaned too much! Read through to the bottom …

  At Lawyers.com we report legal news consumers can use, and sometimes we hear some pretty unbelievable things — including laws that are odd, laughable or downright bizarre.  Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine offers a sampling. There are lots of crazy state laws, and you’d better know them if you’re taking a bath in Indiana in winter. The same goes if you’re ticked off at a vending machine that stole your money in Kansas, and if you’re caught swearing in public in …

As if child-stars gone wild was some kind of surprise, Justin Bieber fans are freaking out over the possibility that the 18-year-old could be – gasp! – smoking pot and drinking alcohol, after pictures emerged on the Internet of the singer allegedly partying with friends.  “Beliebers” might have even more to freak out about if rumors about Bieber’s plans to counteract such negative publicity come true: He reportedly plans to post signs at his hangouts that purport to make any …

  Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine tells the stories of five oddball crimes. You might even wonder whether some of these crooks wanted to get caught. How hard was it to crack these cases? Do criminals return to the scene of the crime? With one “repeat offender,” you may find it a bit surprising how soon and how often she liked to rob the same Massachusetts liquor store. Larry describes how plans to rob a Vermont 7-Eleven “backfired” with one criminal …

  Can you recall what movie had the classic line “You can’t handle the truth!” Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine describes his favorite movies about the law and shares some interesting facts about them. He reviews Hollywood classics with moments you’ll probably remember if you’ve seen the films and adds his perspective through a legal lens: “A Few Good Men” – Larry revisits this military courtroom drama written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Rob Reiner. This film depicts the trial …