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Divorce in India
Pamposh Raina has posted this interesting item on the New York Times “India Blog”: For Indian Women, Divorce is a Raw Deal (March 22, 2012). The piece links to the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill 2010 now pending before the Parliament in India, and notes a research study to be published later this year on the economics rights of [...]
Maintenance Convention moves forward in Congress
H.R. 4284, the International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, was introduced on March 28, 2012 and referred to three House Committees: Ways and Means, Budget, and Judiciary. The bill was drafted to implement the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance. Two witnesses testified about the Convention [...]
