Divorce Chaser

A beautiful homemaker Kodera Kiyomi is vexed by her cheating husband. While she is out gathering evidence of her husband’s affair, she comes to the realization of double-adultery. As a woman, she cannot bring herself to forgive Togawa Yuko who has a happy family of her own. Due to Hakamada’s legal counsel, she decides to sue Yuko for compensation, even while Yuko denies the illicit affair.

Saionji Fumiko (Housewife) had already decided to divorce her senior citizen husband, one year ago; she had to endure his moral harassment for decades. She has been saving up money from teaching flower-arrangement class, and has enough for the separation, to go live on her own. Her husband is a university professor, and his illicit affair with one of his students gets exposed.

Ichikawa Tomohiro has reached a breaking point in his marriage to a monster wife, and comes to the Law Office of Hakamada for legal counsel. Most of his salary vanishes in expenditures of his wife’s purchases of expensive brand-name items and extravagant spas. In the meantime, he endures her domestic violence and moral harassment.

Work doesn’t come around much at the Law Office of Hakamada, but suddenly there’s a crowd lined up to see him. At the end of Nonomura Kanae’s syndicated manga, the landlord Toyama Yoshie had taken initiative to place an ad.

Hakamada Yukio wins compensation lawsuits for his clients, so they can start their lives over. But who is his client this episode, but his own long-lost father? According to Yukio’s half-sister Suwa Natsuki, their 72-year old father Suwa Kozo is married for the third time to a woman 45 years younger than him.

The matchmaking company GET MARRIAGE has a list of people who are most unlikely to get married; they have a scam going of obstructing those members to keep squeezing membership fees from them. Yukawa Natsuko, the chief editor of a restauranteur magazine, is getting suspicious that they can't find her a marriage match, no matter how many dates they set her up with.

Compensation lawyer Hakamada Yukio becomes friends with little kids? And who is the client this time but their father, Sakagami Takeshi? He was laid off a year ago and has been a stay-at-home dad, but in the meantime his career-wife Izumi has stuck him with a divorce notice.

Nishijima Aoi has been living with her common-law husband for two years, and he suddenly decides to call off the relationship. It seems her husband has found another woman...

This episode's client is a victim of her mother-in-law Tomoe's incessant bullying: Yoshioka Miki slaves from morning till night at the tavern, like a laborer in a sweat shop. She invites Miki's husband's ex-girlfriend to their home, and even makes humiliating comparisons in front of her.

This episode’s client is Kurasawa Yoshihito, none other than assistant Nonomura Kanae’s ex-husband. You’d think he was caught cheating again, but no, it’s a case of double-adultery by his second wife Shiori, who is getting sued for compensation by the cheating-partner’s wife. Kanae is in a tangled state of mind...