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A Role Of Paralegal In Family Law

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Family law offices are hectic places to work, with tight deadlines and emotionally disturbed clients. A family law paralegal Roseville is responsible for numerous tasks, from the first intake to the final hearing. But before that you have to understand what is family law: Family law is not all about divorce.

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Australia to scrap family law presumption of shared parental responsibility

JURIST

The Australian Labour government Monday released a draft of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 to amend the Family Law Act 1975. The post Australia to scrap family law presumption of shared parental responsibility appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Abu Dhabi introduces personal status law for non-Muslim foreigners, shakes up domestic and international family law

Conflict of Laws

The law carries forward a series of recent legal reforms that aim at providing greater legal certainty for the country’s large expatriate population. The law’s novelty lies in the fact that it combines aspects of substantive and international family law. Multinationalism and its challenges for family law.

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India Supreme Court seeks government reply on discriminatory inheritance law

JURIST

The Supreme Court of India Wednesday directed the central government to file its reply in a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Sections 15 and 16 of the Hindu Succession Act , 1956 (‘HSA’). The government has been given 3 weeks to file its reply.

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What’s In A Name? It Depends.

Above The Law

A white male state bar president who proclaimed that women cannot be good trial lawyers, that they were only fit for the so-called pink practices of family law and probate. How will the federal government describe her? What happens to all the laws enacted to help citizens in this country in various ways? Sorry, not sorry.

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Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation on Civil Family Law and Muslim Foreigners: Has the Tide Turned?

Conflict of Laws

Written by Lena-Maria Möller , College of Law, Qatar University The recent introduction of a civil family law regime in the United Arab Emirates – the first of its kind in the region – has attracted considerable attention, both on this blog and beyond. [1] 2] It should be noted here that with the introduction of Law No.

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Families file case at ECtHR over alleged UK bereavement benefits discrimination

JURIST

Two bereaved families filed a case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday, claiming that the UK government’s bereavement support policy is discriminatory.

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