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Entries from November 2007

New Convention on Child Support

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

This past Friday in The Hague, representatives from 68 countries finalized the text of a new convention intended to make it much easier for people to collect child support payments from former spouses or partners that have moved overseas. 
While there is no official tally of the amount of child support lost throughout the world due to parents […]

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Pastor’s Wife: Church Should be Part of Assets

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments

A New York state pastor’s wife feels that her husband has intertwined his personal and business finances so much that his church, technically his business, should be considered part of the assets in the divorce proceedings.
The wife argues that her husband used the church’s bank account as his own personal piggy bank, spent the congregation’s […]

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Florida Divorce Moves to the Internet

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Residents of Broward County, Florida that want a divorce are now able to file online. Giving new meaning to the term “internet era”, residents of this Florida county unveiled a program online that allows people to file for a divorce via an online application process.
The technology was designed and and pioneered in Palm Beach County. […]

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Columbus Doctor Speaks on End-Of-Life Issues

November 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Dr. Bernard Lown, author and inventor of the defibrillator, feels that Americans are the only people on Earth that feel that death is optional. He speaks Wednesday in Columbus, Georgia.
End-of-life issues are ethical land mines for families as well as health care providers because patients’ families often want to hang on to hope in the […]

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