Bakopoulos seems to be saying it was just fine for the burnt-out, bitter fathers to leave, to spare everyone the calls to the police to break up domestic fights and the ugly, protracted divorces.

Mr. Wilf was sent there at 13 when his parents began a protracted divorce.

He described their drink together, and how he went first, telling Proctorr his problems, and then Proctorr telling him how his second marriage was ending in a very messy protracted divorce.

This was triggered by the tumultuous break-up of his marriage to Amy (Maria Bello) and the protracted divorce proceedings.

Our children have had to go through a protracted divorce and a story such as this is extremely painful for them.

An exasperated judge appointed a law guardian yesterday to give the two children of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Donna Hanover a voice in the couple's increasingly rancorous and protracted divorce.

He's suffering from writer's block, triggered by the tumultuous break-up of his marriage to Amy (Ms. Bello) and the protracted divorce proceedings.

Mr. Shicoff is back at the Met this spring after complications from a protracted divorce kept him out of the country for seven years.

He had been among the wealthier siblings in his 30's but found his savings and assets wiped out by a protracted divorce several years ago.

But then there were the crashes: a protracted divorce, selling the businesses, a bout with cancer under the tongue.