Showing posts with label Divorce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Divorce. Show all posts
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Church Ceremony Without Marriage License Was Enough to Create a Civil Marriage In New York

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In L.F. v. M.A. , (NY Cnty. Sup. Ct., July 9, 2024), a New York state trial court, in a divorce action, held that a ceremony at a Coptic Ort...
Friday, July 12, 2024

India's Supreme Court Says Muslim Women Can Invoke Secular Law for Maintenance Award After a Religious Divorce

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In Mohd v. State of Telangana ,  (India Sup. Ct., July 10, 2024), a 2-judge panel of India's Supreme Court held that a Muslim woman who ...
Friday, March 29, 2024

First Amendment Precludes Court from Enforcing Mahr in Divorce Action

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 In Omid v. Ahmadi ,  (CT Super., March 18, 2024), a Connecticut state trial court in a action for dissolution of a marriage refused to enfo...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Religious Marriage Without Marriage License and Later Annulled by Religious Court Is Still Recognized By New York

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 In T.I. v. R.I. , (NY Sup Ct Kings Cty, March 20, 2024), a New York state trial court held that the state would recognize a couple's ma...
Wednesday, September 06, 2023

CT Supreme Court Upholds Refusal to Enforce Ketubah in Divorce Action

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In Tilsen v. Benson ,  (CT Sup. Ct., Sept. 5, 2023), the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a trial court's refusal to enforce the provisi...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Enforcing Agreement To Cooperate With Jewish Religious Court Does Not Violate Establishment Clause

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In Satz v. Satz , (NJ Super., Aug. 18, 2023), a New Jersey state appellate court upheld a trial court's order enforcing a marital settle...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Bishop Must Testify in Divorce Case with Millions of Dollars at Stake

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L.M. v. M.A. , (NY County Sup. Ct., Feb. 6, 2023), is a decision by a New York state trial court refusing to quash a subpoena that orders a ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Utah Supreme Court Says Order in Divorce Proceeding on Children's Religious Teaching Is Too Broad

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Kingston v. Kingston ,  (UT Sup. Ct., Dec. 22, 2022), is a challenge by Ryan Kingston to a trial court's order in a divorce proceeding t...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Jewish Congregation Sues for Return of Deeds To 5000 Burial Plots

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 An unusual suit was filed this week in a New York state trial court by a Bukharian Jewish religious organization which is seeking to recove...
Friday, June 24, 2022

In Dispute Over Frozen Pre-Embryos, Wife's Religious Concerns Do Not Prevail

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In In re Marriage of Olsen , (CO App., June 23, 2022), a Colorado state appellate court was called on to settle a dispute between a husband ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Plaintiff Lacks Standing To Challenge No-Fault Divorce Law Under 1st Amendment

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 In King v. State of New York ,  (2d Cir., May 9, 2022), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that plaintiff lacked standing to challe...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Mahr Did Not Set Upper Limit Of Amounts Awardable To Wife In Divorce

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In Parbeen v. Bari ,  (FL App., March 16, 2022), a Florida state appellate court held that a traditional Islamic prenuptial agreement-- a Ma...
Wednesday, August 04, 2021

Protective Order Did Not Violate Ex-Husband's Free Exercise Rights

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 In Kaur v. Singh ,  (PA Super., Aug. 2, 2021), a Pennsylvania appellate court upheld a Protection From Abuse Order that excludes plaintiff&...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

New York's No-Fault Divorce Law Did Not Infringe Wife's Religious Freedom

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In King v. New York ,  (ND NY, Feb. 26, 2021), a New York federal district court rejected a wife's contention that New York's no-fau...
Monday, January 18, 2021

No Free Exercise Infringement When Court Allocates Vaccination Decision-Making Between Parents

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 In In re Marriage of Crouch ,  (CO App., Jan. 14, 2021), a Colorado state appellate court remanded a trial court's refusal to modify th...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

UAE Liberalizes Personal Status and Penal Laws

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The United Arab Emirates today announced liberalizing changes in its Sharia-based personal laws. The Hill , The National , and  Emirates New...
Friday, October 02, 2020

No Fault Divorce Does Not Infringe Husband's Free Exercise Rights

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 In Melki v. Melki , (MD App., Sept. 29, 2020), the Maryland Court of Special Appeals rejected a husband's claim that granting his wife ...
Monday, February 17, 2020

British Court Refuses Financial Support Orders For Non-Complying Religious Marriage Ceremonies

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Under Britain's Matrimonial Causes Act , a party to a "void marriage" may obtain a decree of nullity from a family court which...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Court In India Reduces Power of Ecclesiastical Courts In Goa

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Hindustan Times of Oct. 19 reports: After hearing two separate petitions filed by persons whose marriages were annulled by a so-called ch...
Saturday, October 05, 2019

Court Refuses To Enforce Jewish Marriage Contract Provision

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In Tilsen v. Benson,   2019 Conn. Super. LEXIS 2475 (CT Super. Ct., Sept. 11, 2019), a Connecticut trial court opinion that has just become...