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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
“I was always afraid of the squid and whale fighting,” Jesse Eisenberg’s Walt tells his therapist in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical tale of two brothers caught in the middle of a nasty divorce between their literary parents. “I can only look at it with my hands in front of my face.” The …
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Regardless of who filed, many women feel overwhelmed as they begin to gather financial statements and documents. The more they learn about their financial status, the more embarrassed and ashamed they feel. They may even feel defeated. The first onset of emotions often stems from not being involved in the financial landscape during the marriage. …
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A woman’s fight for access to a widowed parent’s allowance is testing the rights of unmarried couples across the country at the supreme court’s first hearing in Belfast. The state’s refusal to pay Siobhan McLaughlin the benefit amounts to discrimination against children born out of wedlock, the UK’s highest court has been told. The special …
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