El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Padideh Jafari, the founder and CEO of Jafari Law & Mediation Office ... commitment to avoiding the most common mistakes that land couples ...

Common law is a body of unwritten laws based on legal precedents established by the courts. Common law influences the decision-making process in unusual cases where the outcome cannot be ...

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It’s a concept known as common law marriage. The necessary elements of a common law marriage are a present intent of both parties freely given to become married, a public declaration by the ...

In pursuing such claims, however, practitioners too often neglect to pursue common law bad faith remedies, instead seeking only statutory bad faith damages. Despite protestations from the ...

Judges will be given a “common sense” legal framework to stop human rights laws being abused, says the Home Secretary.

For some Canadians, this means incorporating a spouse or common-law partner into their plans. The tax rules permit donations by a spouse or common-law partner to be claimed on the tax return of either ...

Common law property is a system that most states use to determine ownership of property acquired during marriage. In contrast to the community property system, which treats assets acquired during ...

The first question in the case is whether the claim that the SEC brought against hedge fund founder and investment adviser George Jarkesy — seeking penalties for misleading statements he made to ...

This isn’t always the case. Colorado is one of only a handful of states that fully recognize what are known as “common-law marriages.” This is where a couple can be considered married ...