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Kenya Supreme Court rules against automatic equal division of wealth upon divorce

JURIST

The Kenyan Supreme Court ruled Friday that married couples are not automatically entitled to equal shares of matrimonial property in case of divorce. This precedential ruling stated that upon divorce each partner should exit their marriage with the wealth each of them acquired individually.

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Paralegal Compliance Officer – An Interview with Melissa Andrews

Paralegal Bootcamp

She started it with just an associate’s degree, her paralegal certification, and around 15 or so years of paralegal experience working primarily in personal injury, but with a sprinkling in of some family law, criminal, and real estate. They had some family law questions because of who has parental rights.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

Attorney at Work

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. This model is typically used when the anticipated work is predictable, such as simple estate planning, uncontested divorce and personal bankruptcy.

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International Jurisdiction between Nationality and Domicile in Tunisian Private International Law – Has the Perennial Debate Finally been Resolved?

Conflict of Laws

IV (Elgar Editions, 2017) 3895 and my own translation of the provisions dealing with international jurisdiction and the enforcement of foreign judgments in 8 Journal of Private International Law 2 (2012) pp. Dissatisfied, Y appealed to the Court of Appeal of Sousse. The court ruled as follows (only relevant parts are reproduced here.

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Mbatha v. Cutting: Implications for Litigants of Indian Origin

Conflict of Laws

Introduction Rising cross-border migration of people and concomitant increase in lawsuits relating to matrimonial disputes between couples brings to the forefront the issue of conflict of jurisdictional laws ( 219 th Law Commission Report , ¶1.1-¶1.2). Narasimha Rao v. Here, the Chandrachud, J. As shown by Mills (pp.7-10)

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Why is Legal Docketing Important?

MyCase

On the other hand, a small family law firm could leverage a much simpler docketing system that focuses on calendaring. Why is Docketing Important for Law Firms? . Additionally, MyCase offers a direct LawToolBox integration that provides access to a library of hundreds of court rule sets across the U.S.

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The Personal Status Regimes in the UAE — What’s New and What Are the Implications for Private International Law? A Brief Critical Appraisal

Conflict of Laws

These legislative efforts collectively address what is commonly referred to as civil family law (for further details see previous posts on this blog here , here , here , and here ). Together with the new 2024 PSL, these instruments will collectively be referred to as the “Family Law Regulations” (see Table below).

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