Divorce From Bad To Worse
Lawyers say the War of the Kerstens isn’t all that unusual these days. Around the country, the downturn in the economy has injected an extra dose of venom into the already poisonous process of divorce. Although the actual rate of married couples who have gotten divorced has been nearly flat for the past two years–declining from 4 percent in 2000 to 3.9 percent in 2002–lawyers say lean times are fueling the acrimony associated with untying the knot....