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Mental disorder can’t be sole reason for divorce, says SC Mental disorder can’t be sole reason for divorce, says SC, A spouse suffering from mental disorder cannot be the sole ground for dissolution of marriage, the Supreme Court has held. A bench headed by justice GS Singhvi said divorce can be granted only if the illness is of such nature that it is difficult to live together. Turning down the plea of a man seeking divorce on the ground his wife was suffering from schizophrenia, the bench said the existing Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) did not make existence of a mental disorder of any degree sufficient to grant divorce. “This court cautioned that Section 13 (1) (iii) of HMA does not make a mere existence of a mental disorder of any degree sufficient in law to justify the dissolution of marriage,” said the bench, upholding the Andhra Pradesh HC’s verdict that had set aside the trial court order to grant divorce to the doctor couple.

Gov.: Help for Chicago Violence Won't Include Guard Gov.: Help for Chicago Violence Won't Include Guard, A spokeswoman says Gov. Pat Quinn would be open to using Illinois State Police but not the Illinois National Guard if it comes to assisting Chicago police combat city violence. Over the weekend Quinn was asked by reporters about the potential for deploying the Guard or state police to assist local authorities. The Chicago Democrat said state police help in East St. Louis, but that any state help would have to be through coordinated partnerships. Spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said Monday that when it comes to Chicago's violence, state help would not include National Guard troops. The governor is only allowed to deploy the Guard in specific situations like a terrorist threat. The idea has been raised previously by some state lawmakers and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but never implemented.

Britney Spears may lip-sync her way through two-year Las Vegas gig: Sources Britney Spears may lip-sync her way through two-year Las Vegas gig: Sources, Britney Spears admits that she had to leave her comfort zone to shoot the video for "Work Bitch." "My choreographer actually, when I was doing the rehearsals for this video, he was like, 'Britney, you are not a sweet mommy in this video. You are nasty bitch mommy in this video,'" the pop star said in an exclusive sit-down with E! News' Catt Sadler in her dressing room at the iHeartMusic Radio Festival in Las Vegas on Saturday. "And I was like, 'OK...OK!" Britney gasped, her eyes growing wide as she imitated herself reacting to being told she had to get down and dirty. When you start to feel the charcter, you start to feel silly, 'cause you're like, 'This isn't me, I'm not like all like this,'" Britney explained, "moving all sexually and stuff lik...

Shaquille o'neal kings Shaquille o'neal kings, Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has become the newest minority owner of the Sacramento Kings, which California investors bought in May after a tug-of-war with a Seattle group, a team spokeswoman said on Monday. O'Neal now holds a minority stake of the Kings and will be introduced as the newest of the basketball team's owners at a practice facility in California's capital on Tuesday, said Kings spokeswoman Donna Schwartze. She declined to give further details ahead of Tuesday's event, including the size of the stake or what role O'Neal might play with the team. A basketball player turned rapper and sports analyst, O'Neal joins an ownership group led by tech developer and philanthropist Vivek Ranadive, which bought a 65 percent stake in the Kings in a deal valuing the team at $535 million. The group formed after the Kings' previous owners, the wealthy Maloof family, agreed in Janua...

Nick carter alcohol Nick carter alcohol, For decades, Backstreet Boy Nick Carter was a little boy lost. A troubled childhood in a dysfunctional family, coupled with the pressures and temptations of fame created the perfect environment for his downward spiral into a life of drug and alcohol abuse. Now, clean and serene at last, Nick has written a new memoir that reveals the full extent of the dark and tragic struggles he hid from fans for years: starting with his first drink, at age 2. In Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It, Nick writes that his first home was an apartment located above a bar and sometime strip club, The Yankee Rebel in Jamestown, New York. It was owned and operated by his parents and grandmother, and from Nick’s earliest days, the temptation of alcohol beckoned. “Family legend has it that when I was two years old, I crawled into one of the Yankee Rebel’s liquor storage rooms where I was caught drinking for the first time,” he reveals. “My parents al...

Embryos court battle Embryos court battle,  In a case before the Illinois Supreme Court, an Elgin man who had previously agreed to help his girlfriend conceive through in vitro fertilization argues that, after they broke up, he never agreed to give up a say in whether he becomes a parent and that forced procreation would violate his constitutional rights. His ex-girlfriend, who has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, insists that she has the right to have her biological child, and she should control the destiny of the embryos. As reproductive technology outpaces the law, the case is being watched by physicians and attorneys across the country. The Illinois Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on Szafranski v. Dunston — and the fate of three embryos cryo-preserved at Northwestern — later this month.

Katrina bowden kids Katrina bowden kids, KATRINA Bowden is in no rush to have a family. The actress — who recently tied the knot and wrapped 30 Rock — says she plans to have a kids in a few more years. “Everybody keeps asking when we’re going to have kids. We just got married. I’m like, ‘No, we’re not going to have kids for a while,’ ” Bowden told People magazine. Katrina, 25, wed musician Ben Jorgensen, 30, in May after a year-and-a-half engagement. They tied the knot in Brooklyn after planning the wedding themselves. “Being a newlywed is amazing. It doesn’t really feel a whole lot different than being a non-newlywed,” she said. “We just got back from our honeymoon last week. We went to Hawaii for two weeks and it was amazing!”