Lidiya's father, Mikhail Kitayev, an architect from Minsk, had spirited her away from her mother as an infant after a bitter marital split.

Sam, commenting on Madeline's just-finalized marital split, tells her, "Between your personality and his gun collection, I never saw things ending in divorce."

The marital split, after all, was a false alarm.

Wynette's original was about parents spelling out words of an impending marital split to avoid traumatising their young child.

After the marital split, Muriel Wood lived in Japan (her brother was British consul in Nagasaki), China and New Zealand.

It relates to the ownership of IKOS's trading algorithms and the bitter marital split between Mr Coward and Ms Ambrosiadou.

How often do suicide victims act immediately after a marital split, loss of a job or some other personal crisis?

But their marital split frayed the nerves of executives who reported directly to Snyder or Evans.

In addition, "a marital split would cost him alimony, child support, and the use of the house, even though he might have to pay the mortgage. . . . The situation was highly inconvenient."

The business has hit a bump or two over the years, but nothing had quite the impact of their marital split.