17-year divorce (of 2 law professors) fight tests Ohio courts

[steve2470]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/12/ohio-17-year-divorce-fight/2646423/

CINCINNATI -- When they married in 1986, Christo and Sharlene Lassiter vowed to create a marriage that would last in good times and bad.

Instead, the marriage lasted 10 years -- seven years less than their divorce-related legal battles. That fight has been so acrimonious that it's resulted in rare instances of judges sharply rebuking the pair. One judge noted the ex-spouses are both law professors and, by their actions in court, are teaching future lawyers how to ignore court rules and make a mockery of the legal profession.

"I am really shocked, because when I was in law school my professors were outstanding. They never would have told me that behaving the way you all have, both of you, over the past 20 years, is acceptable behavior," Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Leslie Ghiz told the attorneys in a July hearing.

Christo Lassiter, 56, is a law professor at the University of Cincinnati. Sharlene Lassiter, 52, who is remarried and now known as Sharlene Boltz, is a law professor at Northern Kentucky University's Chase College of Law. The divorce lawsuit had 1,400-plus entries filed in it, at least 1,000 more than a typical divorce file.

[bluestate10]

1. It never ceases to amaze me how people who dearly loved each other at one time turn

on their once beloved like an angry dog full of rage during a divorce.

[steve2470]

2. it is amazing, isn't it ?

These two are law professors, very bright people I would assume. I'm sure a lot more is going on in this case besides dry legal technicalities. The story only details the ex-husband's side, since the ex-wife declined to offer her side. Very sad and such a waste of time and money for that state.

[joeglow3]

3. Thank God the gays aren't able to ruin this great institution

[struggle4progress]

4. Mebbe they could save time and money by just stipulating they're both a-holes, then get on with life