As you might expect, divorce law and probate law sometimes intersect. A final divorce decree terminates all rights to inherit from a former spouse. Occasionally, however, divorcing spouses enter into an agreement that continues after one of them dies. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled in September on such a case. When Carl Williams and …
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Divorce presents a very foreign world to many when it comes to what they can and can’t look at and use. When someone is married, they may assume they have a right to look at anything their spouse receives and to check into anything their spouse does. While those ground rules may work during a …
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I went to Relate once, the counselling service formerly known as the National Marriage Guidance Council. I wasn’t married at the time — this was about 25 years ago — but in a long-term relationship. Or at least it was long-term for me at the time. My girlfriend went with me and I rather hoped …
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My wife was browsing through some online “for sale” ads and came across a wedding dress for sale. The ad read: “For Sale: Wedding dress. Worn once by mistake. Call Julie.” Now, it’s clear many marriages don’t work out in the long run, unfortunately. This has a few implications. First, you might find a good …
A P Herbert’s Holy Deadlock in 1934 adroitly, and rightly, lampooned our pre-1960s divorce law for simultaneously making a high-minded demand for evidence of misconduct in order to obtain a divorce, while in practice nurturing a curious industry of histrionic hanky-panky in Brighton hotel rooms to satisfy the demand it had itself created. In 1969 …
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What was the background to the case? The applicant had commenced legal proceedings in Turkey to claim a share in the estate of the deceased, who she maintained had a ten-year relationship with her mother and was her genetic father. She then commenced proceedings in England for a statutory declaration of parentage under s 55A of the …
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Many people claim to know what to expect when ending a marriage. There are a number of popular myths that mislead people about the common outcome of cases and what rights they are/are not entitled to. A lot of people may have seen their parents or another relative go through a separation and think they …
Camera manufacturer Fujifilm has asked a US district court to clear it of any wrongdoing after it was allegedly threatened with trademark litigation by Polaroid. Fujifilm filed its complaint for declaratory judgment on Monday, November 13, at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. In the suit, the brand licensor and marketer …
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Things are not going well for the Earth. It goes well beyond the Trump administration’s decision to eventually leave the Paris Agreement and Scott Pruitt’s purge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific experts. Even non-American efforts to curb climate change aren’t going so well: Newly released data from the World Meteorological Organization reveal a record …
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Last month, S&P warned that UK lenders could incur £30 billion of losses on their consumer lending portfolios consisting of credit cards, personal and auto loans if interest rates and unemployment rose sharply.Much like in the U.S., S&P warned that “loose monetary policy, cheap central bank term funding schemes and benign economic conditions” had fueled an …
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