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Los Retos Del Derecho De Familia En El S. Xxi, Ramiro E. De Valdivia Cano Dec 2011

Los Retos Del Derecho De Familia En El S. Xxi, Ramiro E. De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Oblivion of family and matrimony rights in Peru is the source of paramount social and political problems.


A Primer On The History And Proper Drafting Of Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, Terrence Cain Sep 2011

A Primer On The History And Proper Drafting Of Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, Terrence Cain

Terrence Cain

The divorce rate in the United States is slightly more than one-half the marriage rate. Divorce is a fact of life in this country, and will likely be so for the foreseeable future. On August 23, 1984, the divorce lawyer’s job got more complicated when Congress created the Qualified Domestic Relations Order (“QDRO”) as part of some significant amendments to ERISA. QDROs are necessary because before those 1984 ERISA amendments, a lot of divorced persons discovered that they could be deprived of their marital or community property interest in their former spouses’ retirement plans. For most divorcing couples, the two …


El Art. 345-A Del Código Civil Del Perú, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano Jul 2011

El Art. 345-A Del Código Civil Del Perú, Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

Ramiro De Valdivia Cano

El Art. 345 A del Código Civil del Perú obliga al Juez que conoce del juicio de divorcio por separación de hecho, a pronunciarse sobre el pago de daños y perjuicios a favor del cónyuge más perjudicado -cuidando del debido proceso y de la garantía de la doble instancia.


Getting Divorced Online: Procedural And Outcome Justice In Online Divorce Mediation, Martin Gramatikov, Laura Klaming Jan 2011

Getting Divorced Online: Procedural And Outcome Justice In Online Divorce Mediation, Martin Gramatikov, Laura Klaming

Martin Gramatikov

In this paper we discuss a study of the experiences of 126 individuals who participated in online divorce mediation in The Netherlands. Divorce is a dispute in which the parties have to distribute a large pool of assets and responsibilities. The distributive dimension of divorce substantiates the expectation that one of the parties may be more content with the outcome than the other. The results of the study show that the divorcees do not differ substantially in how they perceive the quality of the procedure and the quality of the outcome. Both parties assigned relatively high scores to both the …