The Family Law Bar Association says proposed changes to legal aid in England and Wales could slow and cause difficulties in divorce hearings.
Concerned, I called up Jessica Miles, an assistant clinical professor at the family law clinic at Seton Hall University School of Law, and an expert on domestic violence-related legal issues.
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When Iraqi women's rights activist Zainab Salbi noted that the key issue for women in the Muslim world is changing the family law that governs their societies, Amanpour didn't ask her what she meant.
Dredd has repeatedly chosen the law over family (to his credit, he once changed the law to help his family).
An attorney for the women also said they are extremely grateful for the support of family, law enforcement and the community.
Although the Muslim community in North America is vastly different from the Indian community, I feel that in developing a plan for the implementation of Muslim family law, we can in some ways imitate the paradigm of the tribal court system and its supporting network.
She stated she traveled to Orlando, was met by the Law family and eventually taken in by the Lorenz family.
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After his father died, the sultan was not made Jogjakarta governor, a post guaranteed to his family by the 1950 law.
Yet Timur Kuran, a professor at America's Duke University, argues that the inheritance rules in Islamic family law may have slowed development in the past by making it harder to accumulate wealth.
"It seems to me he's the father, the other woman's the mother, that's the Indian family" protected under the federal law, said Justice Antonin Scalia.
Another of the bill's opponents, Robert Knight of the conservative Family Research Council, said the law would benefit only groups deemed politically correct.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed the Family Research Council as a hate group since 2010, pointing to what it describes as its anti-gay propaganda and legislative agenda.
Opponents of the measure complain that it usurps the power of states to regulate family law and enshrines discrimination against homosexuals into the Constitution.
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Earlier this month, the family retained a corporate law firm, Sidley Austin LLP, to argue an appeal that is expected to be heard this spring.
Kate Higgins from Children 1st said child maintenance provisions within the bill cut right across the integrity of Scots family law and asked how it would impact on our legal system.
Unfortunately, you were not referring to the couple working with professionals who are best suited for assisting them in dealing with the emotions involved in family law matters in a constructive manner.
Shariah courts: Brown's government has begun institutionalizing the practice of separate legal systems for Muslims with the proliferation of "family law" courts where women can be treated, in accordance with Shariah, as second-class citizens - less-than-equal to male Muslims and entitled to a fraction of the property due the latter in the adjudication of divorce or testate matters.
The national law that supposedly ensures family leave in our country is the Family and Medical Leave Act (or FMLA), which provides both fathers and mothers with job-protected leave for 12 weeks.
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But they often lack independence, and bring to the office a sense of entitlement not seen since the days when bosses regularly hired their sons-in-law to learn the family business.
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Speaking to the Worcester News, her father-in-law Kenneth Mann said the family understood she had "taken her own life".
Nawi claimed that the boy told him he was 16, which would have made their relationship legally consensual (it was the boys family that pursued the prosecution), but the law is the law.
Sharif, now 57, was born into a wealthy industrial family in Lahore and spent his early years studying law and working in the family business.
If so, the casualty would be Muslim family law, which governs marriage and inheritance for Muslims.
The process of implementing Muslim family law will not be accomplished overnight.
Christina Blacklaws, director of family law at The Co-operative Legal Services, said couples had a legal obligation to divulge financial information and failure to do so could lead to jail.
Such drama is largely absent from Malaysia's sharia courts, which operate in parallel with civil ones and deal mostly with family law for the Muslim majority, annulling marriages and adjudicating custody disputes.
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National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown also criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center, saying that its listing of the Family Research Council on its website was equating the group with violent extremist groups.
The practice of sharia-based family law both reflects and to an extent mitigates that conservatism.
Daughters-in-law can do their part by keeping their mother-in-law involved in the family.
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