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Interworld Court for space divorce case
by Steve Sneyd

"How much more can one woman endure," shrieked off-world beauty Glory Mustglow (24) today, when this reporter informed her of a further delay in the history making "hologram space divorce" case.

Already the most expensive personal litigation in human history, with an estimated 2.3 billion ESUs clocked up in the 3-year string of legal actions, the case now goes to the newly established Interworld Court, set-up just last month to bring legal order to the chaos of competing Earthly, Martian and Lunar jurisdictions over events in space.
picture by Steve Hampton
Glory Mustglow gets more bad news...

Mustglow, who set the legal worlds afire with controversy by divorcing husband Prince Arthur Windsor, 11th in line to the British throne, aboard the Luna-registered pleasure cruiser LPS Vegasville at a point in space equidistant from all 3 legal territories, employed a VR hologram of the Prince to gain his consent to her action.

Courts at various levels on all 3 worlds have now given dozens of contradictory verdicts on the legality of the divorce and her claim for assets from the estimated 2,322 billion Windsor fortunes. Indeed, this reporter hears from reliable sources that this particular case was in fact the trigger event to speed up the launch of the Interworld Circuit Court, which will orbit each of the 3 worlds for 4 months per year [but is that by the Martian or the Earthly calendar? -Ed].

While Glory Mustglow weeps at her continuing ordeal, spokesmen for the playboy prince, whose last known occupation was a 3-day stint, 7 years ago, as a circus ringmaster in New Myamatosisgrad, refused to add anything further to a brief statement that was issued on all worlds, simultaneously.

"Our client is exercising his legal rights in full, and will continue to do so, against his wife, the shipping line, the misguided captain responsible for the purported ceremony, and of course the hologram - insofar as that is a legal entity."

When, oh, when will justice at last be done, and this lovely victim of aristocratic petulance and olde worlde greed be left alone to get on with her life, those sapphire eyes smiling again?
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