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A group of Conservative MPs have written to the government asking it to use the UK’s national security laws to investigate the Barclay family’s attempt to regain control of the Telegraph newspaper group with funding from Abu Dhabi. MPs, including Edward Leigh, John Hayes and the life peer Margaret Eaton, have written to the deputy
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The matriarch of a South Florida family who made their fortune practicing dentistry has been arrested at Miami International Airport on charges of orchestrating the hit-man murder of her ex-son-in-law, one week after her oral surgeon son was convicted on the same first-degree murder charge. Authorities said Donna Adelson, 73, was arrested Monday night as
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On November 14, 2023, the Appellate Division decided an interesting case that implicated the intersection of family law, estate law and federal law. The reported (precedential) decision In the Matter of the Estate of Michael D. Jones, Deceased as issue was both compliance of equitable distribution payments under a divorce agreement as well as the
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Author: Takeshi Hamano, University of Kitakyushu Japan took another step towards family law reform on 29 August 2023 when a Ministry of Justice subcommittee published an outline recommending several changes to decades-old civil codes. The Family Law Subcommittee of the Legislative Council was formed in March 2021 and has debated issues related to the interest
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LawQuick Read: In short: A pilot Federal Circuit and Family Court program has been operating to assist domestic violence victims, those with net assets under $550,000 and other vulnerable people resolve property disputes What’s next? Chief Justice Will Alstergren says he is hopeful the program rolling out nationally will help Australian families facing court processes For
When Sarah finally got up the courage to leave her cruel, manipulative husband, she hoped her life would get better. A middle-class professional, she had been belittled by him for so long that she had come to believe she was the problem. If he could no longer turn his rage on her, she hoped, he
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A woman who was raped by her former partner has told how her fight for justice in the family courts left her traumatised. The woman, who has a son with her ex-partner, first put the allegation of rape to the court in 2021 after the father, who she also accused of coercive and controlling behaviour,
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