According to the Child Support Director's Association (CSDA), August has been proclaimed Child Support Awareness Month. This means that both the federal government and various local governments around the country are raising awareness about the importance of paying child support this month.
Another celebrity couple have tied the knot in California, but this time around we're seeing smart choices with the bride and groom signing a prenuptial agreement before their wedding day. The New York Post reports that Edmonton Oiler star Mike Comrie and former Disney Channel star Hillary Duff established a pre-marital agreement to protect their assets. In the case of Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie, it seems like they both have a very good reason to do this. Mike Comrie's family reportedly owns the furniture and appliance retailer The Brick, which is worth $500 million. Hillary Duff has also made a lot of money as the star of Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire. She has also brought in a lot of money and fame through acting gigs, pop albums and a signature fragrance line.
The Southeast Texas record reports that a Texan man had asked his 11-year-old son to mow the lawn one day and when the mower broke, he asked his son to get down on his hands and knees to cut the grass with a pair of scissors. Obviously this is not a fun activity for a pre-teen boy, so the child ran away from the yard when his father was not looking and went to a friend's house to ask his mother, who is divorced from his father, to come pick him up.
A bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Zion Ranch has been ordered to pay $148,000 in child support to his former wife Carolyn Jessop so that she can take care of her eight children. The San Angelo Standard-Times reports that the large sum of money comes after seven years of no child support order.
CBS news reports that 30-year-old Veronica Real-Mayorga gave birth to quintuplets in a Houston hospital last Saturday after 29 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy. While the five babies were born 11 weeks early, the average gestation period for a quintuplets birth is just 28 weeks -- quints are almost always born premature. The babies were all born between 2 1/2 and four pounds.