The effect of Brexit on family law As the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill continues through Parliament, the debate is evolving with divergent views as to how a family law Brexit can best be achieved. Therefore, the impact of Brexit upon family law remains unclear for the time being.There are two principal EU regulations which impact on our family law clients. These are: EU Council regulation 2201/2003 (also known as ‘Brussels II Bis’) which regulates rules of jurisdiction for divorce and parental responsibility regarding children; and The EU Maintenance Regulation (Council Regulation 4/2009) which provides rules for jurisdiction of maintenance claims […]

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The controversy continues within the Southern Baptist Convention surrounding Dr. Paige Patterson. I blogged about this last week. As I read various opinion pieces on the latest SBC drama, I got to thinking about one specific criticism Patterson faces: Over the fact that he would never recommend divorce. I have made myself clear that no amount of physical abuse should be tolerated. Neither should emotional abuse, sexual abuse, adultery, addiction, or any number of behaviors that are against God and His word. At the same time, not tolerating the behaviors does not always mean one should divorce. It doesn’t even […]

Divorce is unpleasant. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. What is surprising part is just how many things people can do to make the experience even more unpleasant. During  divorce proceedings, especially when meeting with the attorney, couples, either because of stubbornness, spite, or sheer stupidity, make key errors that can lose them points with their lawyers and potentially cost them big in court. “The best possible version of you is absolutely what you want to bring to the proceedings of a divorce,” says James Sexton, a divorce and family lawyer and the author of If You’re in My Office, It’s […]

An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered a men’s issues organization and two campus anti-abortion groups to pay for the costs of three students unions, after the student groups launched a legal battle against the students unions when their bids to be recognized as official student organizations and receive union funding were denied. In Arriola v. Ryerson Students’ Union, Justice Paul Perell ordered the men’s issues organization to pay $60,000 to the Ryerson Students’ Union. In Zettel v. University of Mississauga Students’ Union, Perell ordered UTM Students for Life to pay the University of Mississauga Students’ Union $35,000, and in […]

Earlier this year, the Pleasantville Board of Education settled a lawsuit with its own superintendent for more than $200,000. That litigation cost the district $150,000 from its deductible, and there are several other suits pending against the district, according to board attorney James Carroll. While this superintendent’s lawsuit was the result of a decision by the district’s state fiscal monitor, Carroll said the amount of litigation Pleasantville experiences annually is still high. This is why the district is considering pursuing self-insurance and actively taking measures to reduce legal bills each year through training and protocol changes. Court records show that […]

Lex Machina logo/credit: Jason Doiy/The RecorderLitigation over generic drug applications under the Abbreviated New Drug Application process increased 30 percent in 2017, according to a report by litigation analytics company Lex Machina. The ANDA process accounted for 417 filings in federal courts across the nation in 2017, up from 324 in 2016. But filings of ANDA cases still haven’t reached 2015’s blockbuster level of 475, according to Lex Machina’s report, which was made public Thursday. The dramatic increase in ANDA litigation in 2017 is part of a five-year upward trend. From a low of 237 in 2012, ANDA filings increased […]

While the term “co-pay” might suggest a sharing of costs between patients and their health plans, a recent study by the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center found that almost a quarter of patients are paying more than the full price for their prescription drugs under their insurance plans due to “clawbacks.”  A prescription drug clawback occurs when patients purchasing drugs from pharmacies make co-payments required under their insurance plans that exceed the price of the prescriptions and then the insurers and/or pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”) clawback from the pharmacies the excess amounts paid. There have been frequent media reports on the […]

Our pick of recent news and decisions on dispute resolution procedures for construction claims. Round-up of Technology and Construction Court (TCC) practice and procedure news Pilot of the new disclosure regime – update Work on the proposed new disclosure regime continues. As mentioned in our Autumn 2017 briefing, (Proposals for new disclosure rules in the offing), proposals have been made to introduce a new disclosure pilot scheme, which will run in the Business and Property Courts. A new Practice Direction, a new Disclosure Review Document and related guidance were published in early November 2017. Since then, informal consultations have taken […]

DIVORCING couples with children sometimes worry about who is going to pay for their children’s college education after the divorce once their children graduates high school.  They want a guarantee that their soon to be ex-spouse will share in the college expenses of their children. This is specially the case when the other spouse has moved on with a new family.  The old family becomes less of a priority. In California, there is no legal basis for a spouse to request the family court to order the other spouse to pay for their adult children’s college expenses.  However, the divorcing […]