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She’s the youngest of all the Jackson siblings, her music has received over 500 award nominations, and she’s also got three secret marriages that ended in not-so-secret divorces.

Ever wondered what it takes to annul an impulsive marriage? Or what legal grounds there are for invalidating a prenuptial agreement? How about why celebs always seem to bail at the five-year mark?

Janet Jackson’s life story is an encyclopedia of family law with answers to all those questions, and it all started with a teenage crush.

In 2012, Lindsay Lohan bumped into a woman in a New York club, defiantly declared “I need space!” and then closed-fist clocked the woman square in the face.

But LiLo -- or any child-star-turned-criminal -- assaulting an innocent bystander in a nightclub brawl isn’t exactly a groundbreaking topic.

American reality TV is a race to the bottom like nothing we’ve seen in human history. Think about that, there is actually a period of time we refer to as the Dark Ages, and it was still more sensible than anything on Fox’s Reality Channel.

For the worst of the worst, look no further than 2005’s Who’s Your Daddy, a reality show where adults who were adopted as children were introduced to eight men.

Earning a JD and becoming a celebrity aren’t quite as different as you might think. Both usually require that applicants pay their dues while flirting with homelessness, both place a heavy emphasis on monologuing, and both involve pretending to read manuscripts.

Like so many Hollywood stars, Broderick “Steve” Harvey had a long road to success, even weathering Hollywood’s right of passage: living out of a beat-up car in the ’80s.

But after misreading the results of the Miss Universe pageant, calling Asian men undateable, and poking fun of victims in the Flint water crisis -- he’s an international star worth of over $100 million.

A recent report from the Seattle Times pointed out that motor vehicle accidents across the US are on an upward trend, while decreasing here in the state of Washington.

That said, King County still has more accidents per year than anywhere else in the state.

Celebrity child support payments make for an easy target. It was one of the first articles we wrote for this blog, and considering A-listers are popping out little ones about as often as they’re drafting up divorce settlements, it’ll probably be a recurring topic.

SPOILER ALERT: The Golden State Warriors just won the 2017 NBA finals. It took 99 games and around 80 hard-fought hours to get there, and although that seems like a lot, just remember that their season is stretched out over eight months. That leaves a lot of time for injuries off the court.

Few movies enjoy as much notoriety as the 1995 box office disaster Waterworld. It’s an indefensibly bad movie that somehow conned its studio into more than tripling the size of the original budget during production.

Waterworld failed in so many ways that it’s almost hard to keep track of them all.

Most lawyers, regardless of what type of cases they handle, charge either by the hour or on a monthly flat fee. But based on the family planning practices of some celebrities, you might think there was some sort of bulk service deal.

We’ve previously written about Charlie Chaplin’s family troubles in the courtroom, but even with his 11 children, his brood can’t compete with the families on this list.