Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Couples Find Ways To Marry, Divorce For Cheap
Palm Beach County Couples Say 'I Do,' 'I Don't' For Fraction Of Price
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- Couples in Palm Beach County are saving thousands of dollars by getting married and divorced at the courthouse with do-it-yourself packets.
For those planning a wedding or divorce, there are ways to save during these tough economic times.
Weddings
Many Palm Beach County couples are heading to the courthouse to get hitched. Ana and Rafael Sepulveda were one such couple.
For less than $150, the groom and bride got their marriage license, had their ceremony and even took photographs at the courthouse.
"Right now, with the crisis we have in the whole world, you just get everything you want in one place," Ana Sepulveda said.
If the courthouse doesn't sound like the ideal setting for a wedding, event planner Bruce Sutka said there are other ways to save.
Sutka said stick to in-season flowers like roses, orchids or hydrangeas. If flowers are too expensive, use candles as a centerpiece.
Divorces
Some weddings don't end happily ever after.
In that case, filling out and filing divorce papers for oneself could save someone big bucks.
Freda Munzo didn't hire an attorney. Instead, she is using the self-service center at the Palm Beach County courthouse.
The divorce forms cost $20 and to file for divorce costs about $400.
If there are questions for an attorney, consultations start at $15.
But it's a lot cheaper than the alternative.
"To me, it's a lot of savings, especially if I'm trying to save a dime and a penny with my two daughters, so it's a lot better to come and do it yourself," Munzo said. "It's not so hard anyways."
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Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Hulk Hogan spars with attorney after divorce court
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Hulk Hogan spars with attorney after divorce court
by: Sara Gandy - Associated Images
CLEARWATER, Fla. - A heated argument broke out between Hulk Hogan and his estranged wife's attorney Thursday in Florida.
The hearing was over but the fireworks had just begun when attorney Raymond Rafool started answering reporters' questions and Hogan butted in.
Not many men would spar back to Hulk Hogan but some pretty intense moments followed.
"Are you gonna wrestle with me here? Are you gonna come across the cameras? Then be quiet! Be quiet... be quiet. You had your time to talk. You're done. You're done," Rafool said.
The celebrity wrestler was in divorce court asking the judge to free up money from his frozen marital assets.
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by: Sara Gandy - Associated Images
CLEARWATER, Fla. - A heated argument broke out between Hulk Hogan and his estranged wife's attorney Thursday in Florida.
The hearing was over but the fireworks had just begun when attorney Raymond Rafool started answering reporters' questions and Hogan butted in.
Not many men would spar back to Hulk Hogan but some pretty intense moments followed.
"Are you gonna wrestle with me here? Are you gonna come across the cameras? Then be quiet! Be quiet... be quiet. You had your time to talk. You're done. You're done," Rafool said.
The celebrity wrestler was in divorce court asking the judge to free up money from his frozen marital assets.
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Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Does Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Blame Obama For His Divorce?
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Does Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Blame Obama For His Divorce?
Joe Weisenthal
Like other casino companies, Wynn Resorts (WYNN) has had a horrible year, with its stock tanking over 80%. To add insult to injury, CEO Steve Wynn has been served with divorce papers, by his wife Elayne, who also happens to sit on the board of the company.
We're not sure what the deal is, exactly. There have been rumors of Steve Wynn cavorting with other women (wouldn't be a gigantic surprise, if true). Maybe she doesn't like those cheesy ads, where he sits on top of the hotel.
Or maybe it's just a good old fashion case of dumping the husband after he blows his fortune. If that's the case, we wonder if Steve Wynn blames Obama for his divorce.
We say this, because apparently Las Vegas is now officially blaming Obama -- and his war on corporate junkets -- for their severe downturn. Now we're pretty sure that it's the economy -- not Obama -- that's killed Vegas. And if these firms hadn't borrowed so much to build so aggressively, they might've even been able to weather the whole thing better. But, then, always easier to personify your problem, rather than blame something abstract like the recession.
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Joe Weisenthal
Like other casino companies, Wynn Resorts (WYNN) has had a horrible year, with its stock tanking over 80%. To add insult to injury, CEO Steve Wynn has been served with divorce papers, by his wife Elayne, who also happens to sit on the board of the company.
We're not sure what the deal is, exactly. There have been rumors of Steve Wynn cavorting with other women (wouldn't be a gigantic surprise, if true). Maybe she doesn't like those cheesy ads, where he sits on top of the hotel.
Or maybe it's just a good old fashion case of dumping the husband after he blows his fortune. If that's the case, we wonder if Steve Wynn blames Obama for his divorce.
We say this, because apparently Las Vegas is now officially blaming Obama -- and his war on corporate junkets -- for their severe downturn. Now we're pretty sure that it's the economy -- not Obama -- that's killed Vegas. And if these firms hadn't borrowed so much to build so aggressively, they might've even been able to weather the whole thing better. But, then, always easier to personify your problem, rather than blame something abstract like the recession.
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Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Principle Capital’s Myerson Seeks Review of Divorce Settlement
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Principle Capital’s Myerson Seeks Review of Divorce Settlement
By James Lumley
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Principle Capital Chief Executive Officer Bryan Myerson asked a London court to review an agreement to pay his ex-wife as much as 11.2 million-pounds ($15.4 million) after he said the global financial crisis wiped out his share of the couple’s assets.
Lawyers for Myerson said today that due to the “freefall” in the value of his stock since the February 2008 divorce agreement, he would be left penniless if he paid his wife the full amount.
The couple had assets of 25.8 million pounds ($35.6 million) as of Feb. 28, 2008, Myerson’s lawyer, Martin Pointer, told the Court of Appeal in London. While he agreed to give his former wife 11.2 million pounds, or 43 percent of the estate, in installments, the value of Myerson’s share of the settlement had dropped to 1.17 million pounds within 10 months.
“The effect of what has been happening in the financial markets has been to drive down” the value of the assets and the division used in the divorce settlement, Pointer said.
Ingrid Myerson’s lawyers argued in court filings that Myerson’s stock portfolio could increase in value. They will present their case later in the hearing.
Shares of Principle Capital, a London-based group of investment funds, fell to a 52-week low of 20 pence today and have fallen 72 percent this year.
If he had to pay the full settlement today, Myerson would be left with a deficit of 500,000 pounds, leaving his wife with more than 100 percent of the couple’s assets, Pointer said.
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By James Lumley
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Principle Capital Chief Executive Officer Bryan Myerson asked a London court to review an agreement to pay his ex-wife as much as 11.2 million-pounds ($15.4 million) after he said the global financial crisis wiped out his share of the couple’s assets.
Lawyers for Myerson said today that due to the “freefall” in the value of his stock since the February 2008 divorce agreement, he would be left penniless if he paid his wife the full amount.
The couple had assets of 25.8 million pounds ($35.6 million) as of Feb. 28, 2008, Myerson’s lawyer, Martin Pointer, told the Court of Appeal in London. While he agreed to give his former wife 11.2 million pounds, or 43 percent of the estate, in installments, the value of Myerson’s share of the settlement had dropped to 1.17 million pounds within 10 months.
“The effect of what has been happening in the financial markets has been to drive down” the value of the assets and the division used in the divorce settlement, Pointer said.
Ingrid Myerson’s lawyers argued in court filings that Myerson’s stock portfolio could increase in value. They will present their case later in the hearing.
Shares of Principle Capital, a London-based group of investment funds, fell to a 52-week low of 20 pence today and have fallen 72 percent this year.
If he had to pay the full settlement today, Myerson would be left with a deficit of 500,000 pounds, leaving his wife with more than 100 percent of the couple’s assets, Pointer said.
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Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Catholics ask Vatican to rule on no-fault divorce
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Catholics ask Vatican to rule on no-fault divorce
A group of Catholics whose marriages ended in divorce is asking the Vatican to clarify to bishops in the U.S. their appropriate pastoral response to no-fault divorce cases.
by Spero News
A group of lay Catholics who have had their families split by no-fault divorce asked the Vatican to urge the American bishops to come to their defense. Five testimonies were sent by Mary's Advocates, a marriage advocacy group in Ohio, to the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative texts.
The Catholic Apostolic Constitution gives individuals the right to ask the Vatican whether local Church laws violate the universal laws of the church.
Bai Macfarlane, the director of Mary's Advocates says, "When Catholics force no-fault divorce on their families, our American Catholic leadership remains silent bystanders. Pastors promote annulment and even divorce. We are asking the Holy See if we have the right to have canon law protections applied to our families by our local bishops and tribunals."
The petition to the Vatican, extensively citing canon law, is publicly available the Mary's Advocates website. According to a news release, from the organization "If the Church would exercise the canonical investigation process for Separation of Spouses, canonical remedies, and medicinal penalties, we believe it could safeguard justice, prevent scandal, and serve the common good."
No-fault divorce allows one spouse to force the break-up of their family, regardless of whether the other spouse is dangerous or an adulterer. Mike McManus, founder of Marriage Savers, states, "The current law in 49 states allows one spouse to file for a divorce on grounds of 'irreconcilable differences,' and obtain the divorce in every case. In 80% of the cases their spouses believe the marriage is reconcilable."
Mary's Advocates wanted to provide the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts with some information about no fault divorce. Stephen Baskerville's January 2009 article in Touchstone Magazine on no-fault divorce was included. Stephen Baskerville is Associate Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College and author of "Taken into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family."
In a telephone interview, Baskerville said, "The Catholic and Christian press is waking up to the horrors of what really goes on in divorce court. I fear that priests are totally ignorant. They unwittingly serve the interests of the divorce industry by failing to take a stand against the divorce juggernaut."
Sheryl Temaat, who has been repeatedly publish by Homiletic and Pastoral Review says, "Petitioning the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts for assistance in helping American Catholic families overcome the plague of divorce is long overdue. Practically every day we read how children are abused by divorce in one way or another. It's time to hear what the Catholic Church really teaches about divorce, dating, annulment, and remarriage."
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A group of Catholics whose marriages ended in divorce is asking the Vatican to clarify to bishops in the U.S. their appropriate pastoral response to no-fault divorce cases.
by Spero News
A group of lay Catholics who have had their families split by no-fault divorce asked the Vatican to urge the American bishops to come to their defense. Five testimonies were sent by Mary's Advocates, a marriage advocacy group in Ohio, to the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative texts.
The Catholic Apostolic Constitution gives individuals the right to ask the Vatican whether local Church laws violate the universal laws of the church.
Bai Macfarlane, the director of Mary's Advocates says, "When Catholics force no-fault divorce on their families, our American Catholic leadership remains silent bystanders. Pastors promote annulment and even divorce. We are asking the Holy See if we have the right to have canon law protections applied to our families by our local bishops and tribunals."
The petition to the Vatican, extensively citing canon law, is publicly available the Mary's Advocates website. According to a news release, from the organization "If the Church would exercise the canonical investigation process for Separation of Spouses, canonical remedies, and medicinal penalties, we believe it could safeguard justice, prevent scandal, and serve the common good."
No-fault divorce allows one spouse to force the break-up of their family, regardless of whether the other spouse is dangerous or an adulterer. Mike McManus, founder of Marriage Savers, states, "The current law in 49 states allows one spouse to file for a divorce on grounds of 'irreconcilable differences,' and obtain the divorce in every case. In 80% of the cases their spouses believe the marriage is reconcilable."
Mary's Advocates wanted to provide the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts with some information about no fault divorce. Stephen Baskerville's January 2009 article in Touchstone Magazine on no-fault divorce was included. Stephen Baskerville is Associate Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College and author of "Taken into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family."
In a telephone interview, Baskerville said, "The Catholic and Christian press is waking up to the horrors of what really goes on in divorce court. I fear that priests are totally ignorant. They unwittingly serve the interests of the divorce industry by failing to take a stand against the divorce juggernaut."
Sheryl Temaat, who has been repeatedly publish by Homiletic and Pastoral Review says, "Petitioning the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts for assistance in helping American Catholic families overcome the plague of divorce is long overdue. Practically every day we read how children are abused by divorce in one way or another. It's time to hear what the Catholic Church really teaches about divorce, dating, annulment, and remarriage."
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Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Bernie Ecclestone-Slavica: World’s Most Expensive Divorce
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Bernie Ecclestone-Slavica: World’s Most Expensive Divorce
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is all set to pay the world’s most expensive divorce settlement to his wife of 24 years Slavica Ecclestone, after a brief 58-second divorce. The settlement could amount to almost £1 billion, according to legal experts.
Judge Berry ruled that the marriage had ‘irretrievably’ broken down because of her 78-year-old husband’s “unreasonable behaviour.”
The judge held that he ‘has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with’ him.
So, Slavica will be taking home a lot, as I had speculated earlier. Most of the property owned by the racing boss is in the name of his ex-wife because of tax reasons. It includes a hotel in Switzerland and ownership of the Queens Park Rangers Champions League soccer team, apart from Alpha Prema, the holding company of Formula One racing.
She had earlier moved out of the couple’s £10m West London home.
The couple have two daughters who have a yacht and a jet named after them. Bernie met Slavica during the 1982 Italian Grand Prix and married her after two years. She is a former Armani model. For the proceedings, she hired the famous divorce lawyer Liz Vernon for her case.
Bernie didn’t care about the case and neither of them showed up during the hearing which got over in a few seconds. A private hearing will be held to discuss the settlement money.
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Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is all set to pay the world’s most expensive divorce settlement to his wife of 24 years Slavica Ecclestone, after a brief 58-second divorce. The settlement could amount to almost £1 billion, according to legal experts.
Judge Berry ruled that the marriage had ‘irretrievably’ broken down because of her 78-year-old husband’s “unreasonable behaviour.”
The judge held that he ‘has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with’ him.
So, Slavica will be taking home a lot, as I had speculated earlier. Most of the property owned by the racing boss is in the name of his ex-wife because of tax reasons. It includes a hotel in Switzerland and ownership of the Queens Park Rangers Champions League soccer team, apart from Alpha Prema, the holding company of Formula One racing.
She had earlier moved out of the couple’s £10m West London home.
The couple have two daughters who have a yacht and a jet named after them. Bernie met Slavica during the 1982 Italian Grand Prix and married her after two years. She is a former Armani model. For the proceedings, she hired the famous divorce lawyer Liz Vernon for her case.
Bernie didn’t care about the case and neither of them showed up during the hearing which got over in a few seconds. A private hearing will be held to discuss the settlement money.
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Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Heche Divorce Finalized
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Heche Divorce Finalized
Anne Heche is free to wed new lover James Tupper after finalizing her divorce from ex-husband Coley Laffoon.
Laffoon ended the six-year marriage by filing for divorce in February 2007, citing "irreconcilable differences."
Heche is currently expecting a child with Tupper, who she met on the set of her canceled TV show "Men In Trees."
The actress and Laffoon have a 6-year-old son, Homer.
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Anne Heche is free to wed new lover James Tupper after finalizing her divorce from ex-husband Coley Laffoon.
Laffoon ended the six-year marriage by filing for divorce in February 2007, citing "irreconcilable differences."
Heche is currently expecting a child with Tupper, who she met on the set of her canceled TV show "Men In Trees."
The actress and Laffoon have a 6-year-old son, Homer.
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Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Body of soldier from Wilmer found hours after husband's release from jail
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Body of soldier from Wilmer found hours after husband's release from jail
Khaleefa Lambert was in jail just a few hours before police in Tennessee found the body of his wife, 18-year-old Wilmer native Ashley Cecelia Barnes-
Lambert, Saturday in the back seat of his Mercury Mariner.
Lambert, 28, was arrested Friday after failing to appear on charges of domestic violence stemming from a Nov. 30 arrest.
Barnes-Lambert's family said that charge was brought after Lambert nearly choked her to death. The two had been married for less than a month.
Lazette Cooley, Barnes-Lambert's aunt, said her niece was deployed to Afghanistan just a few weeks after the charge was filed and was in the process of seeking a divorce.
Barnes-Lambert was a private in the 101st Airborne Division and worked in logistics. She was stationed at Fort Campbell, which straddles the Kentucky and Tennessee state line.
According to a military spokesman, Barnes-
Lambert's honors include the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Army Service Ribbon.
Unable to finish the divorce proceedings from abroad, Cooley said, her niece was back in Clarksville, Tenn. mid-tour to finish the process with her lawyer, and had no intention of seeing Lambert.
It remains unclear how he found his estranged wife in the city of more than 100,000, Cooley said.
After his arrest Friday, he made a $500 cash bond and was released just before
2 a.m. Saturday, said Clarksville, police spokesman Jim Knoll.
Eight hours later, on Interstate 24 near the Kentucky border, a white sport utility vehicle nearly ran into the cruiser of a Tennessee State Trooper on the side of the road, Knoll said. When the officer flashed her lights, the SUV pulled over and the trooper approached the driver to investigate.
It was Lambert, Knoll said. He was in tears. A towel was wrapped around his hand.
"I didn't mean to hurt her," Knoll said Lambert told the trooper.
She noticed a body in the floorboard of the rear seat.
Lambert told the trooper he "hurt" Barnes-Lambert with a knife, Knoll said.
The trooper put Lambert under arrest.
Under questioning by a Clarksville homicide detective, Knoll said, Lambert later admitted to going to the Clarksville Microtel Inn where Barnes-Lambert was staying, waiting outside until she left and then "hurting her with the knife."
Knoll declined to describe Barnes-Lambert's wounds or say what kind of knife police believe Lambert used to kill her.
He said police were unsure how long Lambert had been on the road or where he was going.
Lambert was being held Monday night without bail at the Montgomery County jail in Clarksville charged with first-degree murder. He appeared in court for an arraignment Monday.
Barnes-Lambert attended Mary G. Montgomery High School, but dropped out and got her GED at 17 so she could enter the Army, said Cooley, the aunt.
"She was very strong- willed," Cooley said, adding that those suffering from domestic violence should do all they can to leave behind their abusers.
"She was trying," Cooley said. "She was trying, but it didn't do her any good."
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Khaleefa Lambert was in jail just a few hours before police in Tennessee found the body of his wife, 18-year-old Wilmer native Ashley Cecelia Barnes-
Lambert, Saturday in the back seat of his Mercury Mariner.
Lambert, 28, was arrested Friday after failing to appear on charges of domestic violence stemming from a Nov. 30 arrest.
Barnes-Lambert's family said that charge was brought after Lambert nearly choked her to death. The two had been married for less than a month.
Lazette Cooley, Barnes-Lambert's aunt, said her niece was deployed to Afghanistan just a few weeks after the charge was filed and was in the process of seeking a divorce.
Barnes-Lambert was a private in the 101st Airborne Division and worked in logistics. She was stationed at Fort Campbell, which straddles the Kentucky and Tennessee state line.
According to a military spokesman, Barnes-
Lambert's honors include the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Army Service Ribbon.
Unable to finish the divorce proceedings from abroad, Cooley said, her niece was back in Clarksville, Tenn. mid-tour to finish the process with her lawyer, and had no intention of seeing Lambert.
It remains unclear how he found his estranged wife in the city of more than 100,000, Cooley said.
After his arrest Friday, he made a $500 cash bond and was released just before
2 a.m. Saturday, said Clarksville, police spokesman Jim Knoll.
Eight hours later, on Interstate 24 near the Kentucky border, a white sport utility vehicle nearly ran into the cruiser of a Tennessee State Trooper on the side of the road, Knoll said. When the officer flashed her lights, the SUV pulled over and the trooper approached the driver to investigate.
It was Lambert, Knoll said. He was in tears. A towel was wrapped around his hand.
"I didn't mean to hurt her," Knoll said Lambert told the trooper.
She noticed a body in the floorboard of the rear seat.
Lambert told the trooper he "hurt" Barnes-Lambert with a knife, Knoll said.
The trooper put Lambert under arrest.
Under questioning by a Clarksville homicide detective, Knoll said, Lambert later admitted to going to the Clarksville Microtel Inn where Barnes-Lambert was staying, waiting outside until she left and then "hurting her with the knife."
Knoll declined to describe Barnes-Lambert's wounds or say what kind of knife police believe Lambert used to kill her.
He said police were unsure how long Lambert had been on the road or where he was going.
Lambert was being held Monday night without bail at the Montgomery County jail in Clarksville charged with first-degree murder. He appeared in court for an arraignment Monday.
Barnes-Lambert attended Mary G. Montgomery High School, but dropped out and got her GED at 17 so she could enter the Army, said Cooley, the aunt.
"She was very strong- willed," Cooley said, adding that those suffering from domestic violence should do all they can to leave behind their abusers.
"She was trying," Cooley said. "She was trying, but it didn't do her any good."
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Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Slaying victim sought divorce
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Slaying victim sought divorce
Mom says money, violence issues led to daughter's decision to leave husband
By TAVIA D. GREEN - The Leaf-Chronicle
Ashley Cecelia Barnes-Lambert last posted to her MySpace page on Saturday morning.
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is (the) only choice you have," the 18-year-old wrote.
Her family is trying to be strong as they deal with the reality that hours after posting that message, Barnes-Lambert was found stabbed to death in the back of her husband Khaleefa Lambert's SUV.
Lambert, 28, who gave a 231 Pin Oak Drive Apt. D address, has been charged with first-degree murder. He is being held without bond at Montgomery County Jail. He is scheduled for video arraignment at 8 a.m. today in General Sessions Court.
Barnes-Lambert's mother, Michelle Bosarge, of Mobile, Ala., said she questions many details about her daughter's slaying as she deals with the shock of her death. She last saw her daughter a few days before she heard the news.
Barnes-Lambert, a private first class in the Army, deployed to Afghanistan in December but returned home on midtour leave to handle a divorce she'd filed against Lambert, Bosarge said.
Bosarge said the Lamberts' short marriage was filled with domestic violence and money problems. Those reasons led to the divorce filing, she added.
"When she got here, she knew he would hurt her if he got his hands on her," Bosarge said. "She just didn't want to be married to him anymore. She had dreams, and he was bashing them, and he was jealous."
Barnes-Lambert spent time with her mother in Alabama before traveling to Clarksville to meet with her divorce attorney. Bosarge didn't know that would be the last time she'd see her daughter.
"We sat for hours, and she was happy," Bosarge said. "I had a few days with her left, and I thank God she was happy and smiling. I can't believe she's gone."
Barnes-Lambert posted she was traveling back to Alabama on Saturday. Bosarge said when she heard a knock on her door Saturday, something inside her told her her daughter was dead.
The slaying
On Friday, Lambert was booked into the Montgomery County Jail and charged with domestic assault. His bond was set at $500. He bonded out of jail Saturday.
Records about the domestic charge where not available on Sunday. According to a previous report, police said Lambert told them that on Saturday morning he waited outside the Microtel Inn where his wife was staying. When she came out, he approached her, and he admitted he "hurt her with a knife" before putting her into the vehicle he was driving, according to a Clarksville Police Department news release.
At approximately 10 a.m. Saturday, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Krystal Mathis was parked on the Interstate 24's eastbound shoulder beneath the Exit 1 overpass when Lambert's Mercury SUV nearly struck her patrol car, according to police reports.
Mathis pulled over the vehicle and found Lambert crying with a towel wrapped around his hand, according to the news release. He told the trooper "he didn't mean to hurt her," according to the news release.
Mathis then saw Barnes-Lambert in the back floor of the SUV.
Police have not released many details about the case, such as how many times Barnes-Lambert was stabbed. It also is not known if Barnes-Lambert died at the scene.
Bosarge said the night before the slaying, one of Barnes-Lambert's close female friends and an engaged couple had a party at the motel.
Pictures were posted on Barnes-Lambert's MySpace profile, and Bosarge said her daughter was not at the motel with another man.
"There was nobody in her room but those three," Bosarge said. "They had a nice party till 3 a.m. By 9 a.m. she was up with her makeup on and putting pictures on her computer. Ashley, to my knowledge didn't talk to any new guy. She said she didn't want it right now. She wanted to go back to Afghanistan, bless her heart. She didn't want to be married to him."
Domestic disputes
The Lamberts wed on Nov. 14, 2008. Bosarge said domestic disputes hampered the marriage from the beginning.
Bosarge said her daughter tried to reconcile after one domestic fight.
"She loved him and went back. She was newly married. She wanted to be married, and she told me she loved him and she was trying," Bosarge said. "I know she kept saying people could change and he changed.
"She believed him when nobody else could," Bosarge added.
Because the Montgomery County Courts Center and Clarksville Police Department records department were closed Sunday, court records weren't available for this story.
In memory
Barnes-Lambert's friend, Doreann Wiley, a U.S. Marine, said he was waiting for Ashley, his friend since high school, to come back to Alabama so they could hang out.
He got an e-mail Sunday morning saying she had been killed.
"I'm very hurt," Wiley said. "I'm very angry about what happened. It really hurts. I was talking to her when she was going through the divorce."
Wiley said Ashley didn't deserve to die in such a brutal way.
"She was a very kind and loving person. She accepted everybody. That's why I don't know why someone would do something like that. She would help you if you needed it. She was very loving."
Bosarge said Barnes-Lambert was a sweet, kind-hearted person whose love knew no boundaries.
"She loved her friends. I want her to be remembered as she saw the good, she really did," Bosarge said.
"She was the only one who saw the good in him. Her love knew no racial basis. I'm glad she was like that."
Bosarge said Barnes-Lambert had a love for her country and loved being in the Army.
She enlisted in September 2007 after going through basic training at 17.
Bosarge said the family is bringing Barnes-Lambert's body back to Mobile for a funeral.
Barnes-Lambert's strength, independence and kindness will forever be etched in the hearts of the many friends and family she left behind, Bosarge said.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Mom says money, violence issues led to daughter's decision to leave husband
By TAVIA D. GREEN - The Leaf-Chronicle
Ashley Cecelia Barnes-Lambert last posted to her MySpace page on Saturday morning.
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is (the) only choice you have," the 18-year-old wrote.
Her family is trying to be strong as they deal with the reality that hours after posting that message, Barnes-Lambert was found stabbed to death in the back of her husband Khaleefa Lambert's SUV.
Lambert, 28, who gave a 231 Pin Oak Drive Apt. D address, has been charged with first-degree murder. He is being held without bond at Montgomery County Jail. He is scheduled for video arraignment at 8 a.m. today in General Sessions Court.
Barnes-Lambert's mother, Michelle Bosarge, of Mobile, Ala., said she questions many details about her daughter's slaying as she deals with the shock of her death. She last saw her daughter a few days before she heard the news.
Barnes-Lambert, a private first class in the Army, deployed to Afghanistan in December but returned home on midtour leave to handle a divorce she'd filed against Lambert, Bosarge said.
Bosarge said the Lamberts' short marriage was filled with domestic violence and money problems. Those reasons led to the divorce filing, she added.
"When she got here, she knew he would hurt her if he got his hands on her," Bosarge said. "She just didn't want to be married to him anymore. She had dreams, and he was bashing them, and he was jealous."
Barnes-Lambert spent time with her mother in Alabama before traveling to Clarksville to meet with her divorce attorney. Bosarge didn't know that would be the last time she'd see her daughter.
"We sat for hours, and she was happy," Bosarge said. "I had a few days with her left, and I thank God she was happy and smiling. I can't believe she's gone."
Barnes-Lambert posted she was traveling back to Alabama on Saturday. Bosarge said when she heard a knock on her door Saturday, something inside her told her her daughter was dead.
The slaying
On Friday, Lambert was booked into the Montgomery County Jail and charged with domestic assault. His bond was set at $500. He bonded out of jail Saturday.
Records about the domestic charge where not available on Sunday. According to a previous report, police said Lambert told them that on Saturday morning he waited outside the Microtel Inn where his wife was staying. When she came out, he approached her, and he admitted he "hurt her with a knife" before putting her into the vehicle he was driving, according to a Clarksville Police Department news release.
At approximately 10 a.m. Saturday, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Krystal Mathis was parked on the Interstate 24's eastbound shoulder beneath the Exit 1 overpass when Lambert's Mercury SUV nearly struck her patrol car, according to police reports.
Mathis pulled over the vehicle and found Lambert crying with a towel wrapped around his hand, according to the news release. He told the trooper "he didn't mean to hurt her," according to the news release.
Mathis then saw Barnes-Lambert in the back floor of the SUV.
Police have not released many details about the case, such as how many times Barnes-Lambert was stabbed. It also is not known if Barnes-Lambert died at the scene.
Bosarge said the night before the slaying, one of Barnes-Lambert's close female friends and an engaged couple had a party at the motel.
Pictures were posted on Barnes-Lambert's MySpace profile, and Bosarge said her daughter was not at the motel with another man.
"There was nobody in her room but those three," Bosarge said. "They had a nice party till 3 a.m. By 9 a.m. she was up with her makeup on and putting pictures on her computer. Ashley, to my knowledge didn't talk to any new guy. She said she didn't want it right now. She wanted to go back to Afghanistan, bless her heart. She didn't want to be married to him."
Domestic disputes
The Lamberts wed on Nov. 14, 2008. Bosarge said domestic disputes hampered the marriage from the beginning.
Bosarge said her daughter tried to reconcile after one domestic fight.
"She loved him and went back. She was newly married. She wanted to be married, and she told me she loved him and she was trying," Bosarge said. "I know she kept saying people could change and he changed.
"She believed him when nobody else could," Bosarge added.
Because the Montgomery County Courts Center and Clarksville Police Department records department were closed Sunday, court records weren't available for this story.
In memory
Barnes-Lambert's friend, Doreann Wiley, a U.S. Marine, said he was waiting for Ashley, his friend since high school, to come back to Alabama so they could hang out.
He got an e-mail Sunday morning saying she had been killed.
"I'm very hurt," Wiley said. "I'm very angry about what happened. It really hurts. I was talking to her when she was going through the divorce."
Wiley said Ashley didn't deserve to die in such a brutal way.
"She was a very kind and loving person. She accepted everybody. That's why I don't know why someone would do something like that. She would help you if you needed it. She was very loving."
Bosarge said Barnes-Lambert was a sweet, kind-hearted person whose love knew no boundaries.
"She loved her friends. I want her to be remembered as she saw the good, she really did," Bosarge said.
"She was the only one who saw the good in him. Her love knew no racial basis. I'm glad she was like that."
Bosarge said Barnes-Lambert had a love for her country and loved being in the Army.
She enlisted in September 2007 after going through basic training at 17.
Bosarge said the family is bringing Barnes-Lambert's body back to Mobile for a funeral.
Barnes-Lambert's strength, independence and kindness will forever be etched in the hearts of the many friends and family she left behind, Bosarge said.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - 'Both wars are tragedies'
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - 'Both wars are tragedies'
by Linda Greene
On March 20, a few days after the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 55 intrepid Bloomingtonians will board a bus bound for Washington, D.C, for a peace march on the Pentagon. Thirteen hundred organizations and individuals have endorsed the march, the first national one against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since President Barack Obama was elected.
The demonstration's rallying cries are, “From Iraq to Afghanistan to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime” and “We Need Jobs and Education, Not Wars and Occupation.” The demonstrators will urge an end to the war threats and economic sanctions against Iran and will protest the illegal U.S. program of detention and torture.
"It's important to let the new administration and Congress know that the public is still very much aware of and opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Mike Ferner, president of Veterans for Peace, said in an e-mail. “We do not like what we're hearing about slowly pulling out of Iraq while leaving 50,000 troops there permanently, and we don't believe that Afghanistan is somehow the 'right' war that we should be waging seriously.”
Both wars are catastrophes, he continued, for the people who suffer under the bombs and for Americans who watch their economy slide into ruin.
"The war in Iraq has killed, wounded or displaced nearly one-third of Iraq’s 26 million people."
“The trillion dollars we've pissed away on these wars could have rebuilt our mass transit systems and sent every young person to college who desired to," Ferner continued.
Plenty to protest
Although millions of American families are losing their houses, jobs and health care, the military budget next year will exceed $1 trillion. If used to meet people’s needs, that amount could create 10 million new jobs at salaries of $60,000 each per year, provide health care for everyone, rebuild New Orleans and repair much of the war damage in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
The cost of the occupation of Iraq alone is $400 million each day, or about $12 billion each month. So far, the bill for every U.S. household is more than $4,100.
The cost to Indiana is staggering. According to Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), as of one year ago the Hoosier state had paid $8 billion for war. Indianapolis had paid $986 million.
FPIF is a think tank of more than 600 scholars, advocates and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner.
Not to mention the human costs to Americans -- thousands of troops dead and hundreds of thousands injured physically and mentally. Many who served in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan are unemployed, homeless or both. In fact, MSNBC reported on its Web site that veterans make up 25 percent of the homeless, even though they are only 11 percent of the adult population in the United States.
The rates of posttraumatic stress disorder, suicide, divorce and woman battering are accelerating among returning troops. For example, according to the Washington Times, the divorce rate among Marines rose from 3.3 percent in fiscal year 2007 to 3.7 percent in fiscal year 2008, and the New York Times reported that the rate of domestic violence among combat troops has spiked in the last two years.
Life in Iraq
The Iraqi people have to live with the consequences of war and occupation every day. As historian and author Mike Davis wrote in his 2006 book Planet of Slums, "In Baghdad's giant slum of Sadr City, hepatitis and typhoid epidemics rage out of control. American bombing wrecked already overloaded water and sewerage [sic] infrastructures, and as a result raw sewage seeps into the household water supply. [Six] years after the U.S. invasion, the system remains broken, and the naked eye can discern filaments of human excrement in the tap water. In the 115-degree heat of summer there is no other available water supply that poor people can afford."
"We don't believe that Afghanistan is somehow the 'right' war that we should be waging seriously."
- Mike Ferner, Veterans for Peace
The average Iraqi in Baghdad has only four hours of electricity each day, with electrical grids functioning erratically and the huge amounts of power drained by the hundreds of thousands of U.S. personnel. Without adequate electricity, Iraq's water-purification systems are functioning poorly, resulting not only in typhoid and hepatitis but also an epidemic of cholera in children and a dearth of water for irrigating farmland.
In Iraq as a whole, according to Iraq Veterans Against the War, the rates of unemployment are as high as 60 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate in the Great Depression was 25 percent and as of last month stands at 8.1 percent, according to a March 6 Bureau of Labor Statistics news release.
Internally displaced Iraqi refugees number 4 million. As many as 2.24 million Iraqis have sought refuge in foreign countries. The war in Iraq has killed, wounded or displaced nearly one-third of Iraq’s 26 million people.
In total, 79 percent of Iraqis oppose the occupation by foreign troops, and 78 percent of Iraqis think the situation is poor in the country overall, according to Foreign Policy in Focus. The vast majority of Iraqis want the U.S. out of their country completely.
President Obama's policies
President Obama's military policies, for all the administration's talk of change, are transitioning seamlessly from the Bush administration. Obama, according to The World Can’t Wait, has pledged to leave 80,000 troops, thousands of private contractors and 17 permanent bases in Iraq. And he just committed 17,000 more troops for Afghanistan.
He continues to send drones -- unmanned bombers guided by remote control -- over Pakistan, killing civilians.
He also continues to deploy nuclear carriers with enough weaponry to exterminate any country in the Mideast. He supports the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
He supports enlarging the U.S. military by 92,000 troops and is neglecting to investigate and prosecute the Bush administration for war crimes.
The solution
Iraq Vets Against the War recommends a three-part solution to the war in Iraq: complete withdrawal of all occupying forces from Iraq; reparations for the human and structural damage to Iraq; and full benefits, top-notch health care (including mental health) and other types of essential support for returning troops.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
by Linda Greene
On March 20, a few days after the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 55 intrepid Bloomingtonians will board a bus bound for Washington, D.C, for a peace march on the Pentagon. Thirteen hundred organizations and individuals have endorsed the march, the first national one against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since President Barack Obama was elected.
The demonstration's rallying cries are, “From Iraq to Afghanistan to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime” and “We Need Jobs and Education, Not Wars and Occupation.” The demonstrators will urge an end to the war threats and economic sanctions against Iran and will protest the illegal U.S. program of detention and torture.
"It's important to let the new administration and Congress know that the public is still very much aware of and opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Mike Ferner, president of Veterans for Peace, said in an e-mail. “We do not like what we're hearing about slowly pulling out of Iraq while leaving 50,000 troops there permanently, and we don't believe that Afghanistan is somehow the 'right' war that we should be waging seriously.”
Both wars are catastrophes, he continued, for the people who suffer under the bombs and for Americans who watch their economy slide into ruin.
"The war in Iraq has killed, wounded or displaced nearly one-third of Iraq’s 26 million people."
“The trillion dollars we've pissed away on these wars could have rebuilt our mass transit systems and sent every young person to college who desired to," Ferner continued.
Plenty to protest
Although millions of American families are losing their houses, jobs and health care, the military budget next year will exceed $1 trillion. If used to meet people’s needs, that amount could create 10 million new jobs at salaries of $60,000 each per year, provide health care for everyone, rebuild New Orleans and repair much of the war damage in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
The cost of the occupation of Iraq alone is $400 million each day, or about $12 billion each month. So far, the bill for every U.S. household is more than $4,100.
The cost to Indiana is staggering. According to Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), as of one year ago the Hoosier state had paid $8 billion for war. Indianapolis had paid $986 million.
FPIF is a think tank of more than 600 scholars, advocates and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner.
Not to mention the human costs to Americans -- thousands of troops dead and hundreds of thousands injured physically and mentally. Many who served in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan are unemployed, homeless or both. In fact, MSNBC reported on its Web site that veterans make up 25 percent of the homeless, even though they are only 11 percent of the adult population in the United States.
The rates of posttraumatic stress disorder, suicide, divorce and woman battering are accelerating among returning troops. For example, according to the Washington Times, the divorce rate among Marines rose from 3.3 percent in fiscal year 2007 to 3.7 percent in fiscal year 2008, and the New York Times reported that the rate of domestic violence among combat troops has spiked in the last two years.
Life in Iraq
The Iraqi people have to live with the consequences of war and occupation every day. As historian and author Mike Davis wrote in his 2006 book Planet of Slums, "In Baghdad's giant slum of Sadr City, hepatitis and typhoid epidemics rage out of control. American bombing wrecked already overloaded water and sewerage [sic] infrastructures, and as a result raw sewage seeps into the household water supply. [Six] years after the U.S. invasion, the system remains broken, and the naked eye can discern filaments of human excrement in the tap water. In the 115-degree heat of summer there is no other available water supply that poor people can afford."
"We don't believe that Afghanistan is somehow the 'right' war that we should be waging seriously."
- Mike Ferner, Veterans for Peace
The average Iraqi in Baghdad has only four hours of electricity each day, with electrical grids functioning erratically and the huge amounts of power drained by the hundreds of thousands of U.S. personnel. Without adequate electricity, Iraq's water-purification systems are functioning poorly, resulting not only in typhoid and hepatitis but also an epidemic of cholera in children and a dearth of water for irrigating farmland.
In Iraq as a whole, according to Iraq Veterans Against the War, the rates of unemployment are as high as 60 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate in the Great Depression was 25 percent and as of last month stands at 8.1 percent, according to a March 6 Bureau of Labor Statistics news release.
Internally displaced Iraqi refugees number 4 million. As many as 2.24 million Iraqis have sought refuge in foreign countries. The war in Iraq has killed, wounded or displaced nearly one-third of Iraq’s 26 million people.
In total, 79 percent of Iraqis oppose the occupation by foreign troops, and 78 percent of Iraqis think the situation is poor in the country overall, according to Foreign Policy in Focus. The vast majority of Iraqis want the U.S. out of their country completely.
President Obama's policies
President Obama's military policies, for all the administration's talk of change, are transitioning seamlessly from the Bush administration. Obama, according to The World Can’t Wait, has pledged to leave 80,000 troops, thousands of private contractors and 17 permanent bases in Iraq. And he just committed 17,000 more troops for Afghanistan.
He continues to send drones -- unmanned bombers guided by remote control -- over Pakistan, killing civilians.
He also continues to deploy nuclear carriers with enough weaponry to exterminate any country in the Mideast. He supports the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
He supports enlarging the U.S. military by 92,000 troops and is neglecting to investigate and prosecute the Bush administration for war crimes.
The solution
Iraq Vets Against the War recommends a three-part solution to the war in Iraq: complete withdrawal of all occupying forces from Iraq; reparations for the human and structural damage to Iraq; and full benefits, top-notch health care (including mental health) and other types of essential support for returning troops.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Soldiers get PG-rated sex talk Video offers tips on keeping marriage strong while deployed
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Soldiers get PG-rated sex talk Video offers tips on keeping marriage strong while deployed
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition
A catchy notice near the command post lets soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment, in on a marriage enrichment video that will be shown at Combat Outpost Dolby.
Divorce statistics
The divorce rate for the entire military in 2008 was 3.4 percent, a 0.1 percent increase from 2006 and 2007.
The Army enlisted divorce rate for 2008 was 3.9 percent � the highest in 19 years.
The divorce rate of the general population in the United States for the 12 months preceding February 2008 was 3.6 percent.
Sources: Defense Department, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
PATROL BASE DOLBY, Iraq � A group of Baumholder, Germany-based soldiers huddled around a TV set to watch a sex video, with the viewing hosted by their battalion chaplain.
Well, that�s a little misleading.
The roughly hourlong video was an installment of a Christian-based DVD series titled "Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage" by minister Mark Gungor.
The episode shown recently at this patrol base southeast of Baghdad offered tips on how to improve sexual relations within a marriage. It was all very PG-rated.
With the divorce rate for enlisted soldiers at a 19-year high, advice for strengthening marriages could not be more relevant.
The proactive approach of showing marriage seminar DVDs to deployed troops is an effort by Army Chaplain (Capt.) Archie Durham of 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment to strengthen marriages. The battalion is known as Task Force 4-27 during its current deployment.
"Deployments take a lot out of a marriage, and they need to see things like this to help with, not only when they get back, but their marriage in general," he said. "Most people look at marriage seminars � when you go, �Oh, let�s go to a marriage seminar� � they think, �Well, there�s nothing wrong with my marriage.� Well, there doesn�t have to be anything wrong with their marriage."
A husband for 15 years, Durham reads books and watches DVDs on marriage. He equates watching marriage seminars to the Army conducting preventive maintenance on vehicles.
"You do it regardless," he said. "If the vehicle�s OK, if the vehicle�s messed up, it doesn�t matter. You�re still going to do it just to check it out. Well, you do the same thing with marriage. If you�ll do that over and over and over, it�ll give you ideas on how to better your marriage. You never have a perfect marriage. You�re always working on your marriage, so why not watch, go to seminars and read books."
The five-part series by Gungor gives advice on communication, relationships and yes, sex. The video shown recently, which contained no nudity, profanity or sexual acts, offered a humorous look at how couples can better please each other physically.
Even dealing with the taboo topic of sex, Gungor managed to keep his humor and mild innuendo all very church-appropriate. He uses Scripture to reinforce his points.
Capt. Allan Buck Carroll, commander of Company B, 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment, got engaged the day before he left for his first deployment to Iraq. Now he is on his third deployment and remains happily married.
Just as he has during his previous deployments, Carroll constantly communicates with his wife.
"I come out of deployments having a stronger marriage than I do going into deployments," he said. "Anything that we have like this where you can learn more about your relationship with your wife and come out of this deployment even being a better husband is really important � especially with, right now, marriage being on the downturn in the United States but even more so in the Army because of the deployed state."
On the video, Gungor mentioned that one of the keys to pleasing women sexually is to give them time. Gungor then said that the male sexual experience lasts only two minutes on average.
One thing that can increase a man�s endurance is frequency of encounters, he said.
Gungor then jokingly told the women in his studio audience they shouldn�t expect more than two minutes from their men if they only had sexual encounters with their husbands once every two weeks.
A soldier watching the video deadpanned a hysterical one-liner.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition
A catchy notice near the command post lets soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment, in on a marriage enrichment video that will be shown at Combat Outpost Dolby.
Divorce statistics
The divorce rate for the entire military in 2008 was 3.4 percent, a 0.1 percent increase from 2006 and 2007.
The Army enlisted divorce rate for 2008 was 3.9 percent � the highest in 19 years.
The divorce rate of the general population in the United States for the 12 months preceding February 2008 was 3.6 percent.
Sources: Defense Department, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
PATROL BASE DOLBY, Iraq � A group of Baumholder, Germany-based soldiers huddled around a TV set to watch a sex video, with the viewing hosted by their battalion chaplain.
Well, that�s a little misleading.
The roughly hourlong video was an installment of a Christian-based DVD series titled "Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage" by minister Mark Gungor.
The episode shown recently at this patrol base southeast of Baghdad offered tips on how to improve sexual relations within a marriage. It was all very PG-rated.
With the divorce rate for enlisted soldiers at a 19-year high, advice for strengthening marriages could not be more relevant.
The proactive approach of showing marriage seminar DVDs to deployed troops is an effort by Army Chaplain (Capt.) Archie Durham of 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment to strengthen marriages. The battalion is known as Task Force 4-27 during its current deployment.
"Deployments take a lot out of a marriage, and they need to see things like this to help with, not only when they get back, but their marriage in general," he said. "Most people look at marriage seminars � when you go, �Oh, let�s go to a marriage seminar� � they think, �Well, there�s nothing wrong with my marriage.� Well, there doesn�t have to be anything wrong with their marriage."
A husband for 15 years, Durham reads books and watches DVDs on marriage. He equates watching marriage seminars to the Army conducting preventive maintenance on vehicles.
"You do it regardless," he said. "If the vehicle�s OK, if the vehicle�s messed up, it doesn�t matter. You�re still going to do it just to check it out. Well, you do the same thing with marriage. If you�ll do that over and over and over, it�ll give you ideas on how to better your marriage. You never have a perfect marriage. You�re always working on your marriage, so why not watch, go to seminars and read books."
The five-part series by Gungor gives advice on communication, relationships and yes, sex. The video shown recently, which contained no nudity, profanity or sexual acts, offered a humorous look at how couples can better please each other physically.
Even dealing with the taboo topic of sex, Gungor managed to keep his humor and mild innuendo all very church-appropriate. He uses Scripture to reinforce his points.
Capt. Allan Buck Carroll, commander of Company B, 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment, got engaged the day before he left for his first deployment to Iraq. Now he is on his third deployment and remains happily married.
Just as he has during his previous deployments, Carroll constantly communicates with his wife.
"I come out of deployments having a stronger marriage than I do going into deployments," he said. "Anything that we have like this where you can learn more about your relationship with your wife and come out of this deployment even being a better husband is really important � especially with, right now, marriage being on the downturn in the United States but even more so in the Army because of the deployed state."
On the video, Gungor mentioned that one of the keys to pleasing women sexually is to give them time. Gungor then said that the male sexual experience lasts only two minutes on average.
One thing that can increase a man�s endurance is frequency of encounters, he said.
Gungor then jokingly told the women in his studio audience they shouldn�t expect more than two minutes from their men if they only had sexual encounters with their husbands once every two weeks.
A soldier watching the video deadpanned a hysterical one-liner.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
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