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Feature Article - Gay, Straight, Human Rights, Equality, marriage and Civil Unions, what’s the difference?
Author: Divorce Anthropologist | Subject: Self Help Legal Room
Created On: 2008-05-19
Does the argument for equal rights become unimportant once won?

A divided California Supreme Court has overruled ‘Proposition 22’ which defines marriage as the ‘union of husband and wife’. This narrow majority ruled that gay and straight couples should have same rights to marriage ...[Read More]
 
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Divorce increases with globalisation – but the after affects can be bleak for expats.
Author: Divorce Anthropologist | Subject: Self Help Legal Room
Created On: 2008-04-27

An Interview with Jeremy Morley – of International Family Law in NY



In researching child relocation and abduction law, I came across Jeremy Morley. His website, was very informative about the subject - something lawyers are not always ...[Read More]
 
Bad Behaviour - The Three Year Get Rich Quick Scheme
Author: Divorce.co.nz | Subject: Self Help Legal Room
Created On: 2007-12-06
Bad Behaviour – the Three Year Relationship is it a new get rich quick scheme?
Given 5 years has passed since the 3 year relationship property rule has come into effect, we thought it timely the revisit this issue.
Many in New Zealand society have and continue to assume that men are the har...[Read More]
 
The Essential Legal Database
Author: Divorce.co.nz | Subject: Self Help Legal Room
Created On: 2004-04-13
Divorce.co.nz has established a relationship with HowToLaw, New Zealand's leading self-help legal web site which offers hundreds of self-help legal articles all written in plain English. You may access this information clicking on the HowToLaw logo below.

Divorce, lawyers & the law

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Estate claim successful after death, based on oral understanding and domestic input.
Author: Divorce.co.nz | Subject: Self Help Legal Room
Created On: 2003-06-18
New law changes are far reaching as it appears that your estate after your death can be disputed by past lovers and partners. Here is an interesting court decision which makes a pay out of Broadcaster Angela D'Audney's estate, although the amount was reduced on appeal. Interestingly their relationsh...[Read More]
 
Family Court
Author: Womens Refuge NZ | Subject: Self Help Legal Room
Created On: 2003-06-03

Family Law - what the Family Court Provides in New Zealand


Family Court Basic Services Fact Sheet:



Family court



The Family Court deals with family matters including:

* Protection Orders
* Education programmes for those who are protected by a Prot...[Read More]
 
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41% of YOU are thinking about Divorcing. Which of the following is the main reason?
I feel disempowered in our relationship
Our childraising values differ greatly
Too much verbal & emotional abuse
He/She is not committed to me
We argue too much about money
There is a better relationship out there
 
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