Family Law

Legislation Attempts to Solve Common Problem of Common-law Marriage
Probate judges see families at their worst: grieving, fighting, and with unresolved issues. Probate judges believe that allowing common-law marriage, which South Carolina does, exacerbates conflicts over estates...

Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage - Allies or Adversaries within the Same-Sex Marriage Movement
The article ultimately concludes that while polygamy and same-sex marriage may share some common ground, advocates should continue to distance same-sex marriage from plural marriage to avoid relinquishing the movement's hard-earned cultural capital and societal support.

More than a Mere Contract: Marriage as Contract and Covenant in Law and Theology
In 1841, the American jurist Joseph Story noted that marriage is something more than a mere contract. Justice Story's writings embody an American common law refrain, namely that marriage is at once a contract and something more...

No marriage left behind Exposing the marriage myths
Common Ground sheds light on four myths about marriage. Claire Maisonneuve writes (excerpt): Myth #1: Resolving your conflicts is the key to a happy marriage. [The key is that partners need to feel like they are accepted for who they are and have a fundamental sense of fondness and admiration for each other...

Here Come the Polygamists
This shows that the current debate is much more than a right to same-sex "marriage." It is a debate over a common definition of marriage . . . That is why the various states with marriage amendments define them as one man and one woman, rather than rejecting same-sex "marriage" only or some other deviation from the norm...

Oklahoma Bill to Ban Common Law Marriage Moves Forward
A bill pending in the Oklahoma legislature that would ban recognition of common law marriage and require couples to complete two hours premarital counseling has passed House committee and is now pending before the full house...

Gay Marriage Laws
Where same sex couples can marry

Hawaii Divorce Laws
How to end a marriage in paradise

Divorce Laws
How to end a marriage

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Family Law
involving divorce, child custody, spousal support, common law, adoption and same sex marriage.

AireSurf Networks Holdings Inc.
$23,147 debt settlement made by issuance of 115,735 common shares.

Common Stock Shareholders
LaBranche & Co. LLC agrees to $13 million securities fraud class action settlement.