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Celebrity marriages that were shorter than your last holiday

We started writing this blog based on two factors: 1) family law is a serious issue, and 2) we are not serious lawyers. Sure, everyone on our team has law degrees from fancy schools, in total we have over 70 years of combined experience practicing law in Renton, and the Buckingham, LaGrandeur & Williams library is full of purportedly important books -- but our team is about as somber as a Vegas chapel when the clock strikes midnight.

Celebrities who have more divorces than Ross Gellar

Do you remember when all anyone could talk about was, “divorce rates skyrocketing to well over 50% of all marriages?” We still hear that statistic occasionally, but it’s just not true -- or at least it hasn’t been since the ’70s and ’80s.

That’s great for families, the institution of marriage, and minivan salesmen -- but it’s not doing family lawyers any favors.

Law law land: celebrities spend big bucks to fight off frivolous lawsuits

Being a celebrity is hard work. After a long day of playing make believe and/or sportsball with your millionaire buddies, you just want to go home and relax in your floating mansion castle.

But this is America, the land of lawsuits.

Despite our obsession with celebrity culture, there are some cases that have no place on the docket -- even if it would put us in the same room as some of our idols.

Intolerable Inaccuracies: everything wrong with the Coen Brothers’ view of family law

You’d think the Coen Brothers and romantic comedy would go together like celebrities and the Walmart clearance rack; neither are made for each other and the combination isn’t doing anyone any favors.

Nevertheless, Intolerable Cruelty opened in 2003 to relatively positive reviews, a healthy payout for the film’s financiers, and 15 years later our clients are still referencing it.