WordNet
n. a court having jurisdiction over the termination of marriage contracts
Wikipedia
Divorce Court is an American nontraditional court show that revolves around settling the disputes of couples going through divorces. The current edition of Divorce Court premiered in September 1999, is conducted as an arbitration-based reality court show, and is presided over by Lynn Toler, a former municipal court judge from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The series is currently produced by Lincolnwood Drive, Inc. and distributed by 20th Television.
Each edition of Divorce Court has aired in syndication, and with a total of thirty-five seasons spread across its three incarnations it is one of the longest-running syndicated television programs of all time. Divorce Court holds the record for longest running court show of all time, leading the second place show The People's Court by five years.
On September 8, 2015, Divorce Court entered its 36th season, marking the 17th season of its current production life. On April 9, 2014, Divorce Court was renewed for two more seasons, taking it into 2016–17.
Divorce Court is a 1967 Australian TV series made by NLT Productions.
Usage examples of "divorce court".
Dennis Stull and Patricia Fitzgerald were solidly, legally, bindingly, 'it takes a divorce court to end it' married.
Some even have to get as far as the Divorce Court to prove they can't do without each other.
So determined was Mary Andrea to resist divorce court that she went a step further: At a highway rest stop outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming, she cut her bounteous red hair and penciled in new full eyebrows.
His gray-eyed fate is in hot pursuit, blundering after him through divorce court, chat room, and meetings of the International Monetary Emergency Fund.
Now a divorce court, of course, would bring the truth to -,light - but since she hasn't that option, she's turned to the Press.
He also stressed the point that Miss Greer was a very young girl and that it was a very serious thing to drag a young girl through the divorce court.
But Shayna was self-conscious about marrying a man fresh out of divorce court, and she felt that a quick remarriage upon setting foot in Israel somehow affronted the memory of Michael, to whose grave she had brought Reuven the day they arrived.
The Thurstons had temperament, and temperament is quite often the highway to the divorce court.
He added that, regrettable as it might be to have to break one's word, it was far better to do so than to condemn oneself to years of bickering that ended in the squalor of the divorce court.
She looked concerned and solemn, and it suddenly came to him that an invitation to Christmas dinner and not to some new year's divorce court had been the thing on her lips inside.
If Monica had come by and seen the car, you'd have landed Tony in a divorce court.