!'s Debbie Matenopoulos says she totally didn't see a divorce coming from her husband Jay Faires -- and that she learned about the filing from internet reports. Ouch."I am extremely saddened by the dissolution of my seven-year relationship with my husband," the former View host told People.com.

Jay, a music exec, filed the court papers in Los Angeles on Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences, and is asking that Deb not get any spousal support.

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Debbie Matenopoulos, host of E!'s The Daily 10, has separated from her husband of five years, music exec Jay Faires. Faires filed for divorce Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason and requesting that the court not award his future ex-wife any spousal support.

The petition states that the duo, who tied the knot in July 2003, split up in March. They have no children.I am deeply saddened by the dissolution of my 7-year relationship with my husband, a man I truly believed.

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Remember those wonderful years in your marriage when you and your husband decided that the whole have-it-all thing that you were trying to do with the career and the kids didn't make sense? He supported your decision to stay at home, and it was bliss.

In divorce, that decision is often the source of the most mean-spirited, painful fight. If you thought the mommy wars were bad, this related war - call it the spousal support slaughter   is worse.Some men receive spousal support, of course.

But in the vast majority of cases - at least 99 per cent, family lawyers say - women do. As the most contentious issue in divorce, it is where the choices that people and their former spouses made about how to manage their family are addressed - and not always fairly.

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A divorce rumor has been spreading about famous Lebanese artist Nancy Ajram, who has been married for a few weeks only.

The rumor started circulating widely and spreading in daily newspapers and electronic news sites.

A phone call was made to Nancy’s manager Jiji Lamarah and he had denied all the news saying that they are not real and for those who are trying to damage Nancy’s image let them compete with her music instead of spreading such unreal rumors about her personal life.

There is little that is more traumatic for a child than the divorce of their parents. Sadly it is all too common an occurrence. A child’s reaction to this depends upon their age and their ability to comprehend what is happening. Younger children in particular have a hard time dealing with the changes that are occurring at this time.

Consistency is very import to younger children and the trauma of their parents separating is extremely difficult for them to handle. The loss of routine, the change in daily habits and the loss of friend’s school and other familiar patterns is especially difficult. The way in which they are informed of the divorce is significant as well. Often their ability to cope with the situation depends upon how well or poorly they are told about it.

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Prosecutors in Milan have asked a judge to charge the couple with ill-treatment of a minor. The case is believed to be the first of its kind in Europe.  The prosecutors claim that repeated arguments between the parents, who cannot be named under Italian privacy laws, induced a "syndrome of anxiety and depression". 

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Washington, D.C. - Parents of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are almost twice as likely as other parents to divorce by the time their child is 8 years old, a new study suggests.

A child's disruptive behavior doesn't in itself cause marriages to flame out, but it probably pours fuel on other stresses that spark marital conflict, say psychologists William Pelham Jr. and Brian Wymbs of the State University of New York-Buffalo.

In their study, 23% of parents had divorced by their child's eighth birthday if he had been diagnosed with ADHD, compared with 13% of similar parents in such factors as age, education and income whose child didn't have the disorder.

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A narrow path leads up from the mountain town of Jibla, through century-old houses, and turns into a mud track before reaching the door of Arwa's home.The nine year old child lives with her parents and six brothers and sisters in a humble, two-roomed house overlooking the mosque built by her namesake, Queen Arwa, who ruled Yemen 900 years ago.

She knows nothing of wealth and power but, in her own way, she has helped make history. Arwa is the youngest of three Yemeni girls who recently went to court complaining they were married against their will and asking for divorce - an astonishing display of defiance that has prompted the government to review its law on early marriage.

The child's dark eyes shine from a pale face framed by her black headscarf. Her expression is eloquent yet she struggles to find words for what she's suffered. Earlier this year, her father announced she was to be married, ignoring her tears of protest. She claims to have forgotten her husband's name and all she will say about him is that he seemed tall and old.

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An elderly couple have "divorced" their son after he stole their life savings, leaving just 34 cents in their bank account.Heather and Noel Laurent, both 70, took pity on their son and let him stay rent-free at their Te Puke retirement village. 

But while Heather cooked and did her son's washing, and Noel tried to recover from a stroke, he was fleecing their accounts and shattering their retirement dreams.Brett Andrew Laurent, 38, was jailed for 18 months on Friday after pleading guilty in the Tauranga District Court to 28 charges relating to stealing money and household goods from his parents.

Brett who turned up at his parents doorstep last August penniless and heartbroken after his girlfriend kicked him out stole $10,000 from their bank accounts, stole electrical goods from their home and failed to repay a loan of $10,000, ending the couple's life-long dream of taking an overseas holiday."He can rot in hell, the sooner the better," Heather told Sunday News.

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Madonna's estranged husband Guy Ritchie has reportedly snubbed a $31 million offer from the pop superstar to settle their divorce out of court.The pair announced earlier this month that they are to divorce following seven-and-a-half years of marriage.They have been locked in divorce negotiations ever since, but director Ritchie is allegedly refusing to settle without a fight.A source says, "Guy is certainly not going to accept the first offer -- $31 million is a lot of cash, but not in their world.

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