A nasty divorce and allegations of insurance fraud by an ex-wife against her former husband resulted in a $1.63 million verdict for the husband last month in a malicious prosecution case he brought against her.

In her former law practice, consultant Debra Bruce had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night with thoughts of work, which she didn’t mind, unless she couldn’t get back to sleep for hours.

A referee has ordered the ex-wife of Rolling Stones icon Mick Jagger to pay more than $700,000 in back rent and attorney fees to her former landlords after she lost a bitter five-year battle to keep her $4,600-a-month, rent-stabilized Park Avenue apartment. The ruling followed a 2008 decision by the New York Court of Appeals holding that Bianca Jagger and other foreign nationals in the country on tourist visas were not eligible for rent-stabilized units.

A New York court has the power to decide whether a civil union entered into outside the state should be dissolved, an appeals panel ruled Thursday. Citing the state’s “clear commitment to respect, uphold and protect parties to same-sex relationships,” a five-judge panel reversed a lower court that had dismissed for lack of jurisdiction a complaint by a woman seeking to end the civil union she entered into with her former partner in Vermont.

Taylar Nuevelle, the woman accused of stalking a D.C.