After causing a stir both in Chicago and nationally over the last week, a controversial billboard advocating divorce via some risqué photos of the human anatomy was removed last night. The all-female law firm of Fetman, Garland & Associates, Ltd. had sponsored a billboard with a short message: “Life’s Short. Get a Divorce.” However, the means in which it promoted divorce was beyond the norm. The billboard featured pictures of tanned female cleavage busting from a black laced bra and the six-packed abs of a headless male torso. The ad was the idea of Corri Fetman, who said that her firm wanted to try something different beyond the usual advertising of a divorce lawyer in a suit.

While Fetman certainly created something different, her peers were not to happy with the divorce billboard. John Ducanto, a past president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, called the divorce billboard “grotesque” in an ABC News story. Rick Tivers, a clinicial social worker in Chicago who helps people recover from divorce, called the ad “absolutely disgusting” in the story and said that he’s called the Attorney Registration and Disclipinary Committee of Supreme Court of Illinois to sanction Fetman for the billboard which he feels “trivializes divorce.”

ARDC Deputy Administrator James Grogan said in the story that Fetman will not likely be sanctioned because Illinois usually only does so for false or misleading advertising. While causing a big stink, Fetman continued to defend her divorce billboard, saying that people are overreacting and acting as if couples are going to go out and get a divorce after seeing the ad. Read more about this crazy Chicago divorce billboard story at Total Divorce.

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