Sentences with phrase «in common law states»

Note that some lenders use the same rules in common law states that they apply in community property states, and always check the marital status of applicants.

This opened the door for higher - income couples in community property states to shift income and lower their tax burden as compared to couples in common law states.

On the other hand, in a common law state, you are not responsible for your spouse's debt before marriage, and you can typically avoid responsibility for your spouse's debt after marriage as well.

Not exact matches

Here are some of the most common: Copyright / Trademark: According to the United States Copyright Office, copyright is «a form of protection grounded in the US Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression.»

«The typical state prosecution is for a standard common - law crime,» explains Philip A. Feigin, an attorney with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons in Denver and a former commissioner of the Colorado Securities Division.

In other jurisdictions, common law negligence applies, so advisors in other states may still be required to report suspicious financial activity they witness among their older clientIn other jurisdictions, common law negligence applies, so advisors in other states may still be required to report suspicious financial activity they witness among their older clientin other states may still be required to report suspicious financial activity they witness among their older clients.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

«You'll see negligence pled in different ways, like common - law negligence, and also pled as violations of states» controlled substance acts.»

In response, Pomerantz has innovated use of the statutory and common laws of the various U.S. states to pursue such claims.

In response, Mr. Gross led the vanguard, developing the ground - breaking legal theory of applying common law to individual actions in state court on behalf of large institutional investors who purchased shares on foreign exchangeIn response, Mr. Gross led the vanguard, developing the ground - breaking legal theory of applying common law to individual actions in state court on behalf of large institutional investors who purchased shares on foreign exchangein state court on behalf of large institutional investors who purchased shares on foreign exchanges.

Judge Rothstein conveniently ignored the fact that virtually all states forbade assisted suicide, either by express statute or well - settled common law precedent» which fact the Supreme Court noted without reservation in the one case it has heard dealing, albeit peripherally, with a so - called «right to die.»

Officially, the Catholic Church instructs, «The existence of the State of Israel and its political options should be envisaged not in a perspective which is in itself religious, but in their reference to the common principles of international law,» in the formula given in «Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church» (1985).

Less polemically but still in the Enlightenment tradition, Montesquieu used the example of the reducciones in his Spirit of the Laws to work through questions about the common good and the role of the state in procuring human happiness.

Helmut Thielicke has taken this criticism seriously in his Theological Ethics, speaking of the various structures of our common life, such as the state, law, economics, etc., as «orders of history» rather than as «orders of creation,» and presenting them in an infralapsarian way as «orders of the divine patience, given because of our «hardness of heart» (Matthew 19:8).»

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a world where unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.

Instead Little argues the common law was in a fluid state at the time, seeking principles of legal interpretation for frequent new activities and conflicts.

The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 26) provide that in the absence of statute or rule, the court shall follow «the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason and experience.»

Can a constitutional amendment protecting unrestricted right to abortion be justified in view of traditional church teaching, common law and 19th - century state laws that condemn abortion?

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

An Indiana law explicitly laying it out that it is illegal, although I haven't tried that hard, but I know that as a general tort principle in some states knowingly infecting someone is against either statutory or common law.

Such leaks are common in Western states; they are another reason that antipoisoning laws are largely unenforced.

Luckily in 2006 a food labeling law made it mandatory for manufacturers to clearly state on the packing if a product contains one of the eight most common allergens.

Variations among states in the degree to which they define through statute or common law the legal relationships of spouses and sperm donors to children conceived using assisted reproductive technology compound the insecurities confronting New York lesbian parents contemplating travel or potential relocation to other jurisdictions.

See 4 Blackstone 148 — 149 (1769); 3 B. Wilson, Works of the Honourable James Wilson 79 (1804); J. Dunlap, The New - York Justice 8 (1815); C. Humphreys, A Compendium of the Common Law in Force in Kentucky 482 (1822); 1 W. Russell, A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors 271 — 272 (1831); H. Stephen, Summary of the Criminal Law 48 (1840); E. Lewis, An Abridgment of the Criminal Law of the United States 64 (1847); F. Wharton, A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States 726 (1852).

I can not think of much that the Chartists (to say nothing of later generations of working class protest) had in common with the (objectively anti-working class) Climate Camp idiots, beyond the fact that they protested and found themselves on the wrong side of the state and of law enforcement.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 sStates, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 statesstates.

«I fully support the efforts of spearheaded by courageous members of the State Senate to pass common sense gun laws in New York and today I'm asking all of my supporters to call Senator Golden's office and ask him to do the same.»

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), and Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie) today called for a «Spirit of «76» revolt by rank and file state legislators to clean up corruption and break the stranglehold on the Capitol that's been exerted by powerful leaders who time after time have prevented common sense reforms from becoming law in New York.

The law states: «When the county executive delivers his annual report to the county legislature he should do so at a regular meeting... in accordance with long - standing practice and common sense.»

State Senator Daniel Squadron said, «Too often, Albany stands in the way of common - sense voting and election laws that allow more New Yorkers to exercise their right to vote.

There is support for a moratorium on the effects of Common Core in the state Senate, and Silver predicts the two houses will ultimately agree on a new law.

Sierra Club representative Robert Ciesielski cited a study by Common Cause that the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, had received over $ 1.6 million in political donations from the industry — a figure that, given the current state of New York's campaign finance laws, lobbyists in Albany could well surpass.

Lerner, with Common Cause, says that's because of weaknesses in the state's ethics laws concerning campaign funds and outside income disclosure.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

But in a filing in state court meant to quash the Moreland Commission's subpoena, lawyers for Strategic Advantage argue that Common Sense Principles followed the law in disclosing what it did, while also filing the proper paperwork.

BY ANDY HUMM Ten major Olympic sponsors from Coke to Dow Chemical ---- none of which has acceded to calls that they speak out forcefully against Russia's laws making it a crime to be gay in public ---- are now being pressured by the $ 161 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, led by Comptroller -LSB-...]

Legislators debated Monday whether Connecticut should ease restrictions on absentee ballots and also join 37 other states by allowing early voting.Early voting is common around the country but has never become law in the Land of Steady Habits.

The purchase suggests the state's top prosecutor is using software to map datasets for investigations, a common practice in both law enforcement and the private sector, though the Oct. 2 payment marks the first appearance of the French company, Linkurious, on the Open Book New York website.

Common Cause released a report [pdf] on the soft money loophole in the state's campaign finance law.

«Concealed carry reciprocity is a common - sense reform that reduces confusion for law - abiding gun owners who wish to travel to other concealed - carry states,» Faso said in the statement, adding that out - of - state carriers would have to follow New York state and local prohibitions on weapons in bars, churches, public buildings and other institutions.

A letter to the Staten Island Federation of Parent Teacher Associations explains New York's lax child sex abuse laws and rips Sen. Andrew Lanza for «doing everything he can to protect sexual predators in this district and throughout New York State, by actively blocking a common - sense piece of legislation that would bring them to justice.»

A letter to the Staten Island Federation of Parent Teacher Associations explains New York's lax child sex abuse laws and rips Lanza for «doing everything he can to protect sexual predators in this district and throughout New York State, by actively blocking a common - sense piece of legislation that would bring them to justice.»

For example, the city's recycling law still hasn't been brought in line with the state mandate, although Common Council President Darius Pridgen in February asked the Corporation Counsel to review the recycling provisions in the City Charter and recommend changes.

New York Board of Regents member Roger Tilles of Long Island said the State Education Department had to implement Common Core according to a law signed by Cuomo in 2010, which has been updated twice since then.

It warned that they should desist from flouting the law of the land and stop wasting the common patrimony of the people of the state on political jamboree at a time when the INEC had not permitted political rallies in the state.

Mr Laws has also called for limits on European Union powers, an end to the Common Agricultural Policy and a smaller role for the state in welfare provision, with an end to means - testing.

According to Gerald Benjamin, the director of the Benjamin Center at SUNY New Paltz and a leading expert on state constitutions, especially New York's, the Attorney General «was empowered without the constitution,» but instead in common law, to become what it is today.

And while the decision for New York to adopt the Common Core, like 44 other states, belonged to the Regents, the change in the evaluation law is up to lawmakers — if they get approval from Governor Andrew Cuomo.