Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is embroiled in a public divorce, complete with his estranged wife, Dawn, requested the court to open the sealed divorce filing. Dawn Gibbons has accused the governor of carrying an affair with another woman often seen with Jim Gibbon. The governor denied the accusation and maintained the unnamed woman is just his friend.

An Australian man announced online that he was putting his entire life up for sale, auctioning it to the highest bidder. According to 44-year-old Ian Usher, the winning bidder will get his home, his car, all his material possessions, and even his job. Usher explained that with regards to the job, the winner would be given a two-week trial employment at a rug shop in Perth, Western Australia.

eing stingy cost an Iranian man more after he was ordered by the court to buy his neglected wife 124,000 red roses worth a total of $265,000. Local newspaper Etemad reported that a woman named Hengameh claimed her mahr, or dowry after being married for ten years to her husband Shahin who according to her is so stingy that he cannot even pay for her coffee.

xtramarital affairs and mid-life crisis were the most common cause of marriage breakdown, according to the results of the survey of 100 leading divorce lawyers in England and Wales conducted by chartered accountants Grant Thornton. The survey revealed that 29 percent of divorces last year were due to extramarital affairs (from 32 percent previously) and 14 percent were because of mid-life crisis. In majority or 93 percent of mid-life crises, the man was the one who was undergoing the crisis.

Egyptian couples file for divorce every six minutes, the state-run statistics bureau reported last week. According to the report, approximately one-third of marriages in the North African nation fail in the first year. The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said that Egyptian courts rule on around 250 divorces daily.