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Case Law Development: For Service by Publication to Give In Rem Jurisdiction to Divorce Court, Property Must Be Specifically Described
By Family Law
Teaching the somewhat dry and technical requirements of jurisdiction in the family law class can often be challenging against the backdrop of the more colorful cases the course provides. Often…
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Court Partially Closes Divorce Trial in the Interests of Justice
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LOS ANGELES - The divorce trial of an executive with the Capital Group Cos., a firm with assets totaling more than $1 trillion, will be partially closed to the public,…
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Case Law Development: What Happens to Ownership of Fraudulently Transferred Assets?
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Sometimes cases that have nothing to do with family law are nonetheless telling tales about how people behave in divorce. I can’t resist sharing this one: Once upon a time,…
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Virtual sex ground for divorce, say Belgium judges
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BRUSSELS – Virtual sex or erotic chats on the internet are grounds for divorce, Belgium 's top judges have ruled. They also concluded that laws protecting an individual's privacy and…
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Desperate Sudan housewives seeking divorce end up in jail
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RUMBEK, Sudan -- Most of the two dozen women in Rumbek's dusty prison are desperate housewives. They were driven to commit adultery and other marital offenses, not for passion or…
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Case Law Development: Fraud on Marital Estate
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When Husband took over $3,000 of cash advances on his credit card nearly three years before instituting divorce, there was insufficient evidence of wrongful intent to justify treating this action…
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60-minute divorce for Colombia’s unhappy couples
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Married couples in Colombia will soon be able to untie the knot in as little as one hour and for just $15 (£8.50), bypassing costly lawyers, legal hurdles and the…
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Case Law Development: Trying Not to Split up the Family Farm
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Courts in agricultural states are reluctant to split up family farms upon divorce. Here’s yet another example of a family farm divorce from the Court of Appeals in Nebraska. The…
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Women “Keep More After Divorce”?
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"Women are more likely than men to keep joint possessions when getting divorced, according to research. Men on average wanted their ex to keep 19 items from a list of…
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Utah debates divorce waiting period
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Draft legislation introduced by Utah State Senator Greg Bell would do away with Utah’s state policy that grants a waiver of the divorce waiting period for couples with young children…