Judge's Divorce Ruling Becomes Instant Classic

A divorce ruling from a Canadian family court judge who had clearly reached his limit has became a sensation in legal circles. Faced with a couple who was, in Judge Joseph Quinn's estimation, "immune to reason," the judge came down to their level and "tried ridicule as a last resort." Time has some highlights, including his assessment that the couple is "marinating in a mutual hatred so intense as to surely amount to a personality disorder."

Other highlights:

• It begins, "Paging Dr. Freud" and calls chances of an amicable resolution "laughable."
• At one point, the wife tried to run over her husband with a car, "always a telltale sign that a husband and wife are drifting apart."
• The husband has a "near-empty parenting toolbox."
• Noting the husband's penchant for flipping the bird: "A finger is worth a thousand words and therefore, is particularly useful should one have a vocabulary of less than a thousand words."
• He granted sole custody of their 13-year-old daughter to the wife, only because she had turned the girl against her own dad with "advanced animosity-tutoring." He must pay only $1 a month in child care.

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