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Comparing Divorce Jurisdictions in International Family Law: Procedure May Trump Substance

By Jeremy Morley

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ySg-RK3MUak/SEChXYl12DI/AAAAAAAAAxs/f1OriyDFd_w/s1600-h/trump+card.png"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 114px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ySg-RK3MUak/SEChXYl12DI/AAAAAAAAAxs/f1OriyDFd_w/s200/trump+card.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206338592350525490" border="0" //aspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" My new article, span style="font-style: italic;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Comparing Divorce Jurisdictions in International Family Law:/span /span/spanb style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-family:arial;"span style="font-style: italic;"Procedure May Trump Substance,/span /span/span/bspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" span style="font-family:arial;"is in the current (June 2008) edition ofspan style="font-style: italic;" The Matrimonial Strategist/span. /span/spanspan style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" span style="font-family:arial;"It is also available on my website./span/spanb style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"ibr //i/bspan style="font-family:arial,helvetica,geneva;font-size:100%;"pspan style="font-family: times new roman;"br //span/ppspan style="font-family: times new roman;" When comparing possible jurisdictions for international family law cases, it is frequently important to focus on procedural matters and not simply to compare the rules and practices concerning the division of assets, maintenance and other substantive issues. For example, while it is important to know how different courts will determine which assets are to be divided upon a divorce and how they will determine the appropriate proportions, it is often even more important to compare the discovery techniques of the jurisdictions being compared and the disclosure obligations imposed upon the parties in the various jurisdictions. Case in point: California is at one extreme in requiring real disclosure, while Austria, Japan and many other civil law countries are at the other extreme in requiring very little disclosure. a href="http://www.international-divorce.com/comparing_jurisdictions.htm"Read on/a/span /p /span

Full post as published by International Family Law on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).