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College has been a family affair for the Trefethen family of Hampton. Later this month, Tracy, 30, will graduate from Great Bay Community College alongside her mother, Pat, and father, Don. All three will receive a certificate in Digital Design and Animation.
It all started when Don retired from the Army after 30 years in 2006. [...]

Family News For every half-kilo the wife gains during the marriage, she shall pay her husband $500. Each time the husband is rude to his in-laws, he shall pay $10,000. If the marriage ends, the husband keeps the gardener; the wife gets the pool boy.
Pre-nuptial agreements, which lawyers report are increasingly used by Australian couples, [...]

Family Holidays have three children. My will and my living trust state that everything goes to them. My son recently told me that he and his wife of eight years are separating. They are not getting a divorce. Is she entitled to half of my son’s inheritance when I pass away? My stocks and money [...]

Earth Day is a great opportunity to get outside and enjoy some Earth Day events, or muck about greening your own patch of earth. Plant a tree or some flowers, put up a bird feeder, or set up your own backyard compost. Kids love to get dirty, and you’ll all feel good knowing you’re doing [...]

The family of a Chinese Canadian businessman detained in China is pleading with the federal government to intervene on his behalf and bring him home.Jimmy Chen Yian Yuan, 52, has been held for 18 months in a detention centre in Zhuang Zhou, in China’s Fujian province, on charges of fraud. His lawyers and family say [...]

Megan’s parents were puttering at home on a frigid February evening when they got the call. They were told to come immediately and pick up their 16-year-old. She had been caught stealing cash from the store where she worked part-time. Police were involved. It had been clear Megan was lurching out of control. Once [...]

He works on a show called Brothers %26amp; Sisters, but it probably should be called Husbands %26amp; Wives or simply Family. In any case, Ken Olin is happy to be back at work.The former thirtysomething star is executive producer of the second-year drama, which returns from its strike-imposed hiatus with four new episodes starting Sunday [...]

Jim Mirkopoulos is watching the movie market closely this year. One of the principals of Cinespace, a major rival to the Filmport complex, Mirkopoulos says the family owned company has placed potential expansion plans on hold until they determine where the economy is [...]

When Boston humorist and author Steve Almond unplugged his Baby Daddy blog last month, he posted a goodbye note saying he and his wife had never planned to post beyond their daughter Josie’s diaper years. But he also cited a few ethical concerns with writing the blog, which ran on the hip parenting site Babble.com.
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It was only a matter of time before writer and early childhood educator Brett Berk turned the abundant fodder around him into a book. There was the friend who hadn’t been out alone since the birth of her three-year-old son. A couple who turned their master suite over to their daughter and her mass of [...]