Sentences with phrase «against unmarried»

Under Alaska law, discrimination based on marital status includes discrimination against unmarried couples.

Social psychologist Bella DePaulo, author of Singlism, offers tips on avoiding the cultural bias that sometimes works against unmarried home buyers.

Social psychologist Bella DePaulo offers tips on avoiding the cultural bias that sometimes works against unmarried home buyers.

The case was the latest in a series brought by landlords in different states citing religious belief as a legal basis for discriminating against unmarried tenants.

There is no specific prohibition against unmarried couples» adopting children (sometimes called a two - parent adoption).

The campaign for reinstatement onto band lists may have created some awareness of the discrimination against unmarried mothers and their children but I do not think that there has yet been an effort to understand the significance of the disabilities imposed on bastards, in Britain and in Canada, as regards Canadian immigration policy.

Sue Bowler, Partner and Head of services for vulnerable and disabled people at law firm Coffin Mew, comments: «Until the landmark court decision in Jakki Smith's case, the law discriminated against unmarried couples when one of them died because of someone else's negligence.

The case, said the Court of Appeal, therefore turned on the following: (i) whether or not the war pensions scheme discriminated in favour of married partners as against unmarried partners;

Men 30 + without a wife and without children are called «bare branches» and the social stigma against these unmarried men is strong.

Tim Yeo frets about discriminating against unmarried couples but he is out of touch with the real problem.

Is it OK to basically discriminate against unmarried parents?

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

Not exact matches

The adoption bill permitted homosexual couples jointly to adopt and in another strike against the status of marriage also allowed unmarried couples to adopt.

If homosexuals were allowed to serve in the military and occupy the same quarters, how does a commanding officer respond to the charge that, by allowing homosexuals to room together, he is discriminating against heterosexuals if he denies them as unmarried men and women the similar right of sharing the same quarters?

Christianity is teaches against sex between unmarried couples (such as girlfriend - boyfriend relationship).

Either denial of registration is effective, so not using it on mothers and married fathers is against the interests of the child; or it is not effective, so applying it to unmarried fathers adds nothing to the safety of the child.

Secondly, if the father wants to register against the mother's wishes, the court, whilst it can not deny PR to any parent on child welfare grounds (as it currently prevented from doing so except for unmarried fathers), the court can use a Section 8 order to limit the exercise of PR by any parent on child welfare grounds.

They also minimize potential for discrimination against single or unmarried intended parents.

Directed by Chuck Russell («The Mask») and based on Cathy Cash Spellman's novel, «Bless the Child» pits Maggie (Kim Basinger), an unmarried psychiatric nurse, against a fiendish devil cult led by the supercilious Eric Stark (Rufus Sewell).

Peony's mother is against her daughter's attending the production: «Unmarried girls should not be seen in public.»

In some states, «cohabitation» by unmarried people is against the law.

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NHS worker Jakki Smith has won a legal battle against the government to win better rights for unmarried people who lost their long - term partners.

Thorpe LJ provides some helpful procedural advice which may be incorporated into new family courts rules; but, in the longer term, does this case represent a continued widening of the door for outright capital provision for unmarried carer parents — in line with Re P (a child: financial provision)[2003] EWCA Civ 837, [2003] All ER (D) 312 (Jun)-- as against the interests in possession during a child's dependency favoured by earlier cases, eg T v S [1994] 1 FCR 743, [1994] 2 FLR 883; A v A [1995] 2 FCR 353, [1995] 2 FLR 356; J v C (a child: financial provision)[1998] 3 FCR 79, [1999] 1 FLR 152?

NHS worker Jakki Smith has won a legal battle against the government to win better rights for unmarried people who...

Does the restraint against exposing children overnight to unmarried romantic companions deny due process or equal protection to homosexuals (since they can not marry)?

Most homes seamlessly blend their advertised crisis pregnancy counseling with domestic and international adoption services, and oppose unmarried parenthood as against «God's plan for the family.»

Second, it's a gratuitous slam against all mother - headed families to arbitrarily lump together with families formed by never - married undereducated women (a distinct group) as one amorphous «single mother» category, all unmarried cohabitating couples, blended families, comfortable divorced mothers, and so forth.

These ideas are also the foundation of my community work for marriage in The Family Formation Project, where we work with urban unmarried couples who have a child and a desire to make their relationships work against great odds.

A 1999 court decision allowing a landlord to refuse to rent to unmarried couples because it went against his religious beliefs was reversed recently, when the U.S. Court of Appeals withdrew its opinion in Thomas v. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission.

Affirming the district court decision, the court held that the Landlords were exempt from the anti-marital-status provisions of the Alaska Laws — that Alaska Laws may not be enforced against Christian landlords who refuse to rent to unmarried couples on religious grounds.

When the unmarried couple filed complaints with the state fair housing commission, the commission ruled against Smith.