English Law Commission Looking At Prenuptial Agreements
Blog From Times Online June 11, 2008 Pre-nuptial agreements between couples planning to marry could become legally binding under a review of the law being carried out by the Government’s law reform body. The inquiry announced today by the Law Commission is part of its latest programme of law reform, which is also looking at the […]
Israeli Divorce Based on ‘Get’ Not Recognized in New York
Blog A state judge has declined to recognize an Israeli divorce judgment that was based on a “get,” or decree of divorce, issued by a Brooklyn rabbi. “If this court were to sanction the utilization of a ‘Get’ to circumvent the constitutional requirement that only the Supreme Court can grant a civil divorce, then a […]
Japan to Sign Hague Child Abduction Convention
Blog Yes!!!! 05/10/2008BY MIAKO ICHIKAWATHE ASAHI SHIMBUN Japan will sign a treaty obliging the government to return to the rightful parent children of broken international marriages who are wrongfully taken and kept in Japan, sources said Friday. The Justice Ministry will begin work to review current laws with an eye on meeting requirements under the 1980 Hague […]
Preventing International Child Abduction: Texas Case
Blog When should a court take steps to prevent possible international child abduction by a foreign national parent? This issue is critical to many parents but many courts — and even many family law lawyers — do not give the issue the serious consideration that it must be given. The consequences of international parental child […]
Australia Child Custody & Relocation Problems
Blog Australian child custody law presumes that it is in the best interests of the child for each of the child’s parents to have equal shared parental responsibility. (Australia’s Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006). This presumption has reportedly created significant damage. Judge Graham Mullane has reported to the Association of Family and […]
Korean Adultery Law
Blog Adultery is a crime in Korea punishable by up to two years in jail. Now Ok So-Ri, a famous Korean actress who has been indicted for adultery, has petitioned Korea’s Constitutional Court to invalidate the 1953 law that criminalizes such conduct. In her complaint, her attorneys have argued that, “The adultery law constitutes a serious breach of the individual’s […]
International parental child abduction from the U.S. to India
Blog There has been a rash of cases concerning parents who remove a child from the United States to Indiawithout the consent of the other parent and then refuse to return the child to this country. Parents often have a grave misunderstanding of the serious nature of such parental child abduction. Many believe that simply because India is […]
Offshore Trusts and Divorce
Blog The chief justice of the Cayman Islands, Mr Justice Smellie, has launched a staunch defense of trusts and has railed against what he described as the “entirely misguided” criticism of offshore trusts by onshore authorities. This fuels expectations that there will be an unprecedented stand-off between offshore and onshore judges over the issue. In the […]
India – Good News in an International Child Abduction Case
Blog For more than three years, Deepa Topiwalla fell asleep every night wondering where her young son was. She doesn’t have to wonder anymore. He sleeps in her bedroom in a small bed next to hers. After a court battle that took her halfway across the world, she has returned home to Cary with her son, and […]
Japan Won’t Let Abducted Kids Go
Blog This article from ABC News is based in part on an interview with me.Notwithstanding the information in the article, there are some things that can be done in case of child abduction to Japan, though rarely using the Japanese “system.”By RUSSELL GOLDMAN, Feb. 26, 2008 — Kaya Wong’s parents never imagined they would be […]