Temporal Paradoxes and Divorce Laws

I have a headache that won't go away, and in spite of this, I'm trying to read links on a website I've stumbled across through a Google search. I don't remember what the search was, but Google must have some impressive searching ability, because this site is actually hosted in an alternate universe. The only issue in surfing it is that the links take a little longer to load.

The site is about a conference that was held on temporal paradoxes and alternate universes, specifically as they relate to families and divorce. Well, technically the date of the conference was future, but due to the nature of this conference detailed reports about it in the past tense were available weeks before it took place. The conference was/will be hosted by a family that had seen more than its share of these issues. The family consists of an ex-husband, ex-wife and their son (who will/did graduate from high school just before the conference). The couple was divorced when their son was three or four. All three members of the family were highly sensitive and accident prone with regard to the sort of magic that causes temporal phenomena.

The first link I looked at was about a workshop on the legal ramifications of divorce, when the laws, despite legislative efforts to the contrary, spanned various universes and timelines. One problem was that the couple would sometimes end up legally divorced in a timeline where they were supposed to be married. Another was that if they managed to fix this in that timeline, they might end up legally married in a timeline where they were supposed to be divorced, or even had never met one another. This had insanely complicated consequences with regard to taxation, child support, and custody. In one timeline the father, who had never met his ex-wife, was jailed for failure to pay child support for the child who had never even been conceived. In another, an attempt to fix some of these problems with some kind of blanket legislation resulted in the child being legally exempt from laws about mandatory school attendance. In that timeline, the mother didn't think he needed to go to school if it wasn't required, the father thought this was ridiculous, and the boy figured he had a perfect excuse for playing hookey. There was also at least one timeline in which the son somehow managed to exist, despite the fact that his parents had never met, AND were legally divorced with dual custody. To complicate matters further, they had never met him either before his eighteenth birthday.

One thing that seemed to happen to these people a lot was that they would shift between timelines, merging, swapping or meeting up with copies of themselves from disparate timelines. There were several copies of each at the conference, some lecturing in the workshops and some attending them. There were other people in attendence who had experienced, were experiencing, or were going to experience similar problems, but this family held the world (er, multiverse?) record for experiencing the greatest number of them. One warning they gave was that the problems would only get worse if you didn't take steps to minimize them, but that doing so had the potential to make them worse.