Sentences with phrase «jurisdiction over husband»

The family court found that it had no jurisdiction over husband's mother because she was not a party to the divorce proceedings.

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The husband argued he had diplomatic immunity (he was exempt from certain laws and taxes granted to diplomats by the state in which they are working) and the English court therefore had no jurisdiction over him.

In examining its jurisdiction with regards to the sale of the property in Portugal, the Court in Macedo conceded that it did not have the power to vest title of the property in the wife, but found that it had jurisdiction in personam over the husband and could order the husband to sell the property in Portugal, or, alternatively, the husband could pay the wife for her share of the property minus his interest in the Canadian property: Having said this, the court is satisfied that it retains jurisdiction in personam against the Respondent in this jurisdiction.