English Court OKs Post-Nups, Landmark Case
Blog Congratulations to our victorious client, Rod MacLeod, to whom we rendered extensive advice from afar throughout his long-standing divorce case in the courts of the Isle of Man and then in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The case has resulted in a landmark decision today in favor of our client by the […]
Irish court: 6-year old to be heard in Hague Abduction Case
Blog An Irish court has ruled in a Hague Abduction Convention case that a child of just six years of age should be heard by the Court in determining whether to return the child to his habitual residence in another (unnamed) European Union country. N. -v- N. [hearing a child], [2008] IEHC 382. Ms Justice Finlay […]
Romania Child Abduction & Divorce Law
Blog We have added new pages to our web site for Romania. One is on ROMANIA: INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION and the other is on ROMANIA: DIVORCE LAW.
Israel Amends Its Divorce Law
Blog Israel has made a significant amendment to its divorce law. In Israel divorce is in the exclusive hands of the rabbinical courts for all Jewish Israelis – and that will continue to be the case. The amendment is to the 1973 Spousal Property Relations Law which permitted the civil family court to divide the spouses’ assets only after the […]
English Prenuptial Agreements
Blog A critical case on English prenuptial law is currently being heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which is the highest appeals court for UK overseas territories including the Isle of Man, where the parties live. The current state of the law in England is that prenuptial agreements are considered as just one factor in determining a […]
Australia’s Child Custody Law, International Relocation and International Child Abduction
Blog This editorial (see below) in Australia’s Courier-Mail criticizes the provisions in Australia’s recently-amended Family Law Act that call for equal shared parenting orders. The article is totally on target. However it does not address another unexpected consequence of the new law, which is that it has made it even harder than before for an […]
Jamaica Acceding to Hague Abduction Convention
Blog The Jamaican Cabinet has reportedly approved Jamaica’s accession to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, 1980. Jamaica joins Bahamas, St. Kitts & Nevis and Trinidad & Tobago as Caribbeancountries who have acceded to the treaty. The Convention will not be in force with the United States until the U.S. accepts Jamaica’s accession to the treaty.
An aside about gossip
Blog My daughter at college is suddenly most impressed with the press that I have been receiving. Not that I’m referring to quotes in The Economist or the Times of London — mention of which received a bored “Oh Great! What else is up?” — but to the current issue of OK! Magazine, the place for “hot celebrity gossip and […]
British Court rules Islamic Law Dscriminatory
Blog The Independent,23 October 2008 Britain’s highest court has criticised Islamic law for discriminating against women after a case in which a mother was forced to flee the Middle East for Britain to protect her son from his abusive father. In a 5-0 ruling, the law lords said that there was no place in sharia […]
Forced Marriage Law in Britain
Blog Britain has initiated a concerted effort to stem the number of forced marriages in that country. A new law – the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007– will come into force there next month. A “forced marriage” is one in which a party is married without his or her consent or against his or her […]