Οι Ρόουζ, η Μπάρμπαρα και ο Όλιβερ, ζουν μια ευτυχισμένη παντρεμένη ζωή. Τότε εκείνη αρχίζει ν΄αναρωτιέται πώς θα ήταν η ζωή της χωρίς τον Όλιβερ και της αρέσει αυτό που φαντάζεται. Και οι δύο θέλουν να μείνουν στο ίδιο σπίτι, και έτσι ο καθένας ξεκινάει μια εκστρατεία εκδίωξης του άλλου. Στην ουδέτερη ζώνη βρίσκεται ο δικηγόρος διαζυγίων τους, ο Ντ΄Αμάτο, ο οποίος θέλει να δει μέχρι πού θα τραβήξουν το σκοινί: και μαθαίνει!
Μέσα στη θάλασσα των δικαστηρίων, δύο δικηγόροι της Νέας Υόρκης με ειδικότητα στα διαζύγια ερωτεύονται μεταξύ τους.
Ένα παντρεμένο ζευγάρι σε διαδικασία διαζυγίου προσπαθεί να προστατεύσει το παιδί του από το χωρισμό, την ώρα που η σχέση του καταρρέει.
Ο Fletch είναι ένας ρεπόρτερ που του αρέσει τόσο πολύ η δουλειά του που συχνά παρασύρεται και ερευνά περισσότερα τα γεγονότα, παριστάνοντας τον ντετέκτιβ. Μια μέρα ένας πλούσιος άντρας, ο Alan Stanwyk θα τον πλησιάσει και θα του προσφέρει 50.000 δολάρια ζητώντας του για αντάλλαγμα να τον σκοτώσει, καθως αργοπεθαίνει από καρκίνο και θα ήθελε να πεθάνει συντομότερα αλλά και να κερδίσει για τη γυναίκα του τα λεφτά της ασφάλειας. Τότε ο Fletch δεν θα μείνει με σταυρωμένα τα χέρια, θα ψάξει παντού και σύντομα θα μάθει ότι ο κύριος Stanwyk δεν είναι καθόλου άρρωστος καθώς και άλλα πολύ ενδιαφέροντα πράγματα.
When Spence and Hogan graduate from college, life is bleak. They have to work for heinous divorce lawyers that torture them. Spence has a girlfriend from hell and Hogan just wants to start his life already. As luck would have it, our two young men are presented with an opportunity, they develop a club of young men devoted to the older woman, the "Cougar" if you will.
Το ένα στοίχημα είναι ένα στοίχημα αφηγείται την ιστορία του Vince,του πιο επιτυχημένου δικηγόρου διαζυγίων της Νέας Αγγλίας. Για τον Vince, η ζωή είναι ένας μεγάλος ανταγωνισμός, και η ήττα είναι απαράδεκτη. Αυτό ισχύει επίσης και στην προσωπική του ζωή. Στη συνέχεια, ο Vince συναντά την Jane, που είναι όμορφη και επιτυχημένη. Μαζί μπαίνουν σε μια σειρά από διασκεδαστικά στοιχήματα μεταξύ τους, όπου ο νικητής αποφασίζει για την τύχη του ηττημένου. Στην τελική, "Ένα στοίχημα είναι ένα στοίχημα!"
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis takes on his new stay-at-home role, Claire's furniture design business takes off. Just as she's beginning to master the art of balancing her home and work life, Dennis serves her with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother. Claire discovers that in a modern courtroom there are still traditional biases unsympathetic to the idea of a woman working three jobs, as a wife, an entrepreneur and a mother.
Margaret and Martin Harper, both sixty years old, are filing for divorce, but plan to keep everything as civilized as possible. Complications arise when their respective attorneys, the equally cynical Emily Bennett and Kenton Rhodes, unexpectedly fall in love, throwing an extra kink into the proceedings both in and out of the courtroom.
Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
“I Am Victor” follows a skilled but morally corrupt and narcissistic divorce settlement lawyer who finds himself framed for a series of brutal murders thus starting his own investigation to find the killer.
The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
A couple splits the assets they shared during the five years of their marriage.
The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.
Lawyer Fröhlich has specialised in divorce cases and has become a star in this field. Along the way, he also divorced his own marriage. But his daughter and former wife are an integral part of his life, as is his marriage-mad father.