A New Push to Loosen New York's Divorce Law
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Lawyers and judges are pushing to have New York's divorce law changed, saying it is archaic and heightens hostilities between spouses.
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A bill that gives consumers added protections when they make Internet purchases is now law in New York State.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Call it a kissing crackdown. Indonesia's government is considering a law banning unwed couples from pecking in public - and harshly penalizing those who do, The Jakarta Post reported Saturday.
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LBANY, Aug. 18 - A state court ruled on Wednesday that parts of New York&#39;s lobbying law are unconstitutional because they allow the state to fine lobbyists without giving them proper hearings.
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec.
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SANTIAGO -- After allegedly enduring more than 20 years of beatings, insults, and infidelity -- including a decade in which Chile's Congress fought over a law that would allow the dissolution of marriages -- Maria Victoria Torres recently became the first person in the country to apply for a divorce.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.
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State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will call today for banning lobbyists&#39; gifts to lawmakers and an end to lobbying for government contracts in a platform aimed at the heart of power politics in Albany.
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Devastating litigation is strangling the current system, which desperately needs reforms.
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New YorkÂs immigration court illustrates the crunch that judges face in big cities where complicated cases like asylum crowd the docket.
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Americans are always good at touting an issue as a state of emergency in order to bring to establish a sense of urgency. And there are any number that we could highlight -- HIV/AIDS, gun violence, drug addiction -- but one that should be added to the list is that of the divorce rate in this nation.
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Analysis Lawyer calls for urgent domain dispute reform
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A lawsuit is filed on behalf of bummed-out New York customers.
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The government of Bangladesh says that  it plans to change the country's marriage laws to give women the right to divorce.
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A judge struck down a New York City rule Tuesday that required fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, but he suggested that expanding the rule to include more restaurants could make it legal.
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Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced a ballot measure that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years or have their marriages annulled
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In New York City and beyond, an operation may no longer be necessary to officially change your gender. And that leads to all kind of quandaries about marriage and bathrooms. By Randy Dotinga.