Miscellaneous

What is a Common Law Marriage
Can you become married by common law in Arkansas?

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.

Community Property Rights in Common Law Oregon
Oregon is a common law property state, so what happens when you move here from a community property state and you want to preserve your community property rights?If you are a community property couple and you move to Oregon, you need to be careful how you buy property, how you title it, how you finance it, how you dispose of it, etc...

Time for a change
Couples who live together but are not married should beware because the law does not recognise a ?common law? marriage, according to Nadia Davis, who leads our Family Team.But Nadia said attitudes towards marriage across the UK were constantly changing, and with legislation under review, maybe it was time for the law to change...

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...

Lynn D. Wardle: A Response to the Conservative Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Same-Sex Marriage and The Tragedy of the Commons
Borrowing Garrett Hardin's famous "tragedy of the commons" metaphor, this article suggests that lack of personal responsibility for the common interest in marriage underlies much of the acceptance of same-sex marriage, and concludes with a call to consider the ultimate accountability that the consequences of our social choices will produce.

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

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.

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation