I knew people were sue happy......

This one takes the cake......


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews...ould-cause-her-marriage-to-end-215624871.html

Rick

Well like they say.

You can't fix stupid.

I can't find the link to the story, but supposedly it's true....There's a lawsuit filed against Nike where a guy beat someone into a coma using a shoe as a weapon, and the person who did the beating is suing because NIKE didn't issue warnings that beating someone with a shoe could be harmful.

My brother in law says you can fix stupid with a 6 ft deep whole and a shovel.

we need a picture, bet she was blonde!

What's the problem, the women, the attorney who
filed the suit or both?

Reading between the lines, it sounds like the woman didn't think about the fact that she would be excommunicated from the Catholic Church if she divorced, and is now trying to shift the blame.

Lawyer not telling her that a divorce would cause her marriage to end brings to mind a legal concept known as "judicial notice". If a can falls off a supermarket shelf and breaks someone's foot, the supermarket doesn't have to prove that they were not responsible for the movement of the can after it came off the shelf- that is, the court will take "judicial notice" that gravity will cause an object to fall once it is not longer supported. Just one of a myriad of every-day "givens" in this world.

I think divorce is one of those- it is just assumed that people know divorce will end a marriage, and lawyer wouldn't be required to explain that, UNLESS the client had expressed some reservations, asked about how the Church would look on it, etc. Lawyer is entitled to assume the client isn't a complete idiot and would possess the knowledge of the average person, unless client has given him some reason to doubt it. Then you have to be very careful about even taking the case, because who knows what other foolishness will arise?

I got a letter from a guy the other day- he said he had just finished a year long stint with the Union Gospel Mission, during which he discovered that he was also Jesus Christ. He needed legal help to present his claim that the guvment was illegally depriving him of that second identity, and would I take the case?

Wondering about this Case.
Was the ex's name David Brown?







OK that was bad.

I don't know where you are getting your information, Mike, but a divorce will not get you excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. A divorced person can still receive all the sacraments offered by the church. They are not allowed to remarry in the church, and any marriage outside of the church is not recognized and is a mortal sin. To get remarried, one must first get the prior marriage annulled. Not an easy thing to do.

(quoted from post at 17:45:51 01/15/14) I don't know where you are getting your information, Mike, but a divorce will not get you excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. A divorced person can still receive all the sacraments offered by the church. They are not allowed to remarry in the church, and any marriage outside of the church is not recognized and is a mortal sin. To get remarried, one must first get the prior marriage annulled. Not an easy thing to do.

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A little money will fix the annulment thing real quick.

She just needs to sue in a US court, she will probably win.

(quoted from post at 20:20:08 01/15/14) She just needs to sue in a US court, she will probably win.

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I don't know 504, you should read about some of the law suits that have been won in the UK.

Rick

I guess I used the wrong word, John (I'm not Catholic, obviously)- but your post points out the problems that come with a divorce, which she apparently hadn't thought through before she sought one.