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Some marriages, as family attorneys in Pasadena know all too well, are over before they even begin. Twenty-three-year-old Aisha Noor was shocked to travel all the way from her native Pakistan to meet her new husband in Toronto only to have him tell her he cancelled her sponsorship for residency. The spat between husband and wife has now turned into an international incident, as Noor was forced to return home to Pakistan last week.

Noor and Owais Qurni were wed via an arranged marriage in Peshwar, Pakistan, in 2009, yet the marriage was never consummated. Qurni says he told Noor not to come to Canada before she arrived on March 4 because he felt they had no chemistry. He reportedly told her several times that he wanted a divorce.

“I decided to back off from this wedding before it was too late and both our lives were further ruined," he wrote in an email to CBC News.

Furthermore, he says he had made arrangements with Noor’s father last month to cancel her sponsorship and that he had no idea she was coming to Canada.

"I did not find out that she had landed in Canada until an immigration official contacted me on the phone and confirmed my cancellation of sponsorship, which I confirmed," he wrote. "It was after that that Miss Aisha Noor decided to call me from the airport and asked me to pick her up. This was shocking for me because I advised her against coming because I was not willing to go ahead with preparations anymore."

Noor, naturally, has a different story. She claims she was romanced by Qurni via e-mail and video chat and that he was anxious for her to arrive. She says she believes he’s withdrawing his sponsorship because her family refused to give him a large sum of money. (Qurni calls those allegations “completely false.”) Noor also claims her Pashtun culture in Pakistan will stigmatize her if she returns to the country divorced. The couple never met face-to-face in Canada and Noor was scheduled to return to Pakistan on Monday.

Just over a month after filing for divorce from her basketball star husband, Tony Parker, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria may already be showing signs of moving on. As divorce attorneys in Pasadena can tell you, they are used to shouldering their clients’ divorce needs so that those clients can focus on building a new life.

Longoria and Parker began what appeared to be a fairytale marriage in July of 2007. After 3 ½ years, the fairytale ended when Longoria filed for divorce in a Los Angeles court. Rumors are never in short supply when it comes to a celebrity marriage, and this one has been no different.

Recently, when asked if being around children in need makes her want to adopt a child, Longoria replied, “Of course.” That’s all it took for the rumor to take flight. Is Longoria planning to adopt? Whether the rumor is true or false is beside the point. Celebrities are as human as anyone else, and just like anyone else facing divorce proceedings, Longoria will have to start a new life. Even though she has just filed for divorce, her comment about adoption may show that she is not waiting for her divorce to be complete before she starts thinking of what might come next.

A divorce is obviously the end of something, but these days more and more people are trying to get their life back on track as soon as possible. And Longoria looks like she’s already thinking about building her new life.

Some think that she might be following the lead of Sandra Bullock. After announcing that she had filed for divorce, Bullock also revealed that she was adopting a 3 ½-month-old boy as a single parent.

Both of these celebrities illustrate an important point in today’s world: It’s never too early to start a new life. Pasadena divorce attorneys understand that with strong and supportive legal council taking care of the divorce proceedings, the new life can start ASAP!